Ready or not, here I come :)

So I'm all packed and ready to go finally and as this last night before my flight back to beantown settles down I know that I will suffer a fun little bout of insomnia (as I always do). Which is why I'm happy that I will be leaving my house bright and early at 5:30 am to catch the shuttle to Atlanta at 6 to fly to Boston at 10 to get there at 12:40. It's going to be a long morning. But it always is. But what do I have to look forward to when I get there? My loves Sagar, Vishaal and Gauri helping me unpack (thank you guys so much), getting to see my girlies again, dinner with vish :) and then a nice little thirsty thursday out to kick off the semester...hehe I don't have classes before 12. I wish I had gone up a few days earlier but at the same time I'm happy I didn't. Because then I would have missed out on the craziness that was the last weekend with my sister and Ravi and Jess and Scott and Sheeka Ben and Alex (Thanks guys so much for all your help and a lovely dinner :) ). So all there is left to do is to relax for the next few hours, maybe catch a movie or something, and wait till its time to start getting dressed to GOOOOOOO :D

But seeing as I'm bored I guess I'll blog a little more for shits and giggles. And cause I actually do have something to say. About opportunity. It's a funny little thing. I guess because I never really think about opportunity. I'm much more of an "I went after it so it isn't an opportunity, it was earned" type person. But lately I have to say a couple opportunities have quite literally fallen into my lap and I have a couple people to thank, whether they end up panning out or not. It's funny because I never really mentioned to anyone that I would be looking for a job or an internship this coming semester because I didn't really know if I would be. I am about to go into the hardest semester of my undergrad career and taking that with the captainship of my dance team and being pledge master of my fraternity, I just didn't think I would want to take on anymore (not to mention roller derby next semester, but I'll talk about that another time). But then while I was in London I got an e-mail from a professor I had a couple semesters ago asking me to interview for a job at his roundtable and research facility. The place does Organizational Behavior research, which is the psychology of management basically. It looks into what it takes for leaders to effectively motivate their team. It is a pretty interesting job in a field that interests me. So I was thrilled when he e-mailed me asking. He even offered to write my recommendation for it. I sat on it, decided to send in my resume and have an interview with them next week. I was thrilled. If it pans out or not I'm not that worried because I hadn't really been looking for a job anyways. Then I got another call today. Another opportunity which I don't think I've earned but am, nonetheless, very grateful for. I got a call from Northwestern Mutual as I was continuing on the epic task of packing my clothing (which seems to reproduce) into the little luggage I am allowed to take on a plane. Apparently one of my fraternity brothers heard about an opportunity as a Financial Representative Intern there and recommended they call me to interview for it. The lady did so and set up yet another interview with me next week. So I want to thank both Dr. Mccarthy and Tim Ramos for having that kind of confidence in me. And also to say that now that I have been given the opportunities I'm kind of terrified. It's not one of those things I've chased after so I know that I deserve it in the end. This is one of those cases where the opportunity has literally fallen into my lap. So now I have to do the best I can to make the throwers proud. We'll see how it goes though I guess...I need to get some new business clothes for this.

Radhi