Go Team!
With week 5 right around the corner and the deadline of my three group projects looming overhead, I find it appropriate to dedicate this post to group projects.
So far in MGT 863 we've had 4 presentations on Current Issues in Business. They've all been pretty good, but one last night added some unintentional entertainment. On a presentation about companies going green, the entire class was given pencils which were made out of recycled newspaper. Pretty awesome, huh? All of the pencils had Chinese characters on them, so one of my group members, Lindsay (pictured below) and I asked our other group member Elle what it said. I won't repeat what mine said, because it's not very appropriate, but Lindsay's said "blessed". It was kind of cool. A really neat thing about group projects is that you have study buddies. My group has set aside 2 hours every Thursday before class where we can work on our group project or work on class work. I work almost 40 hours each week so it's nice to have time devoted to nothing but studying because it's hard for me to find the time otherwise.
Shameless plug: go out and vote! It's your patriotic duty. I voted this week. What did you do for your country?
I've been researching internships. I'm limited in what I can do for an internship next summer. I have to stay in Columbus, so my options are a little more limited. I've found a few companies that have corporate headquarters in or near Columbus that I'm looking into, but if anyone has any brilliant suggestions, let me know. But OH!!! I got an interview for the Initiative for Managing Services (IMS) next week and I'm REALLY excited. I've recently had a eureka moment where I've planned out my entire life. I find intrinsic motivation fascinating. I want to discover the best ways - through training and compensation - to better motivate people to do a better job in the workforce and determine what employers can do to keep people motivated, but it's more-so I want to find out how people are intrinsically motivated and incorporate that into training programs. IMS is a research center through Fisher and researches training programs, etc, so I think it would be a perfect fit. Excited/nervous about the interview.
That's all for today! Happy Weekend! Go Bucks beat the Boilermakers!
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