Business School, Or Why I'm Enjoying Not Having a Minute of Free Time
Business school is filled with reading, class, club information sessions, studying and professors with fancy hair (maybe too fancy?). But that probably describes every business school in these United States. Every school has a finance association and every school has textbooks and every school has quiet rooms. But Fisher and The Ohio State University has so much more than that and as I told a second year, "I can't handle myself right now."
I could describe abstractly my schedule and everything I've had to do in the month plus I've been at Ohio State coming from New Jersey and another huge state school in Rutgers. I could just say you could get lost in everything here, but I think there's a better way to do this: I'm going to lay out as much of my schedule on Monday September 16, 2014 as I possibly can. It may seem like a crowded day, but I promise this is pretty much what every Monday is going to be for me for the foreseeable future, so here it is COMIN' AT YOU HARD.
8-8:30AM: Print out Econ discussion questions for that sweet participation credit.
8:30-10:00AM: Accounting class featuring Jolly Bob's Jerk Joint and joining intramural flag football leagues. I am a good student I swear.
10:15-11:45AM: Econ class! A blur of supply and demand curves even a day later. Reminiscing about Jolly Bob's.
12-1PM: 3M Marketing Info Session: Free lunch! It was sammiches. And free pens! Oh and learning about 3M's marketing internships and full time opportunities.
1-2PM: I exercise/listen to the Pitch Perfect Soundtrack. Barden Bellas 4 lyfe.
2:30-3PM: The two team captains for intramural football draft our players. It can get challenging determining the net present value of Ryan McClellan vs. Adam Tedrick. I should be doing work now butttttttt....no.
3-7PM: Studying for Marketing Math Quiz tomorrow and realizing I don't have a calculator. I buy a $3.50 one from the bookstore. It does not have exponents. Also studying marketing cases and doing finance homework. I realize (have it reinforced, more likely) that I have no idea what is going on in finance. This is important as the midterm is 3 days away. I need to pack in all this studying for tomorrow because the day's about to go sideways.
7:30-8:45PM: Intramural Soccer. I'm also one of the captains for one of our two intramural flag football teams. While the football one entails duties like drafting people you know and pretending to be Urban Meyer, the soccer iteration involves bothering people endlessly to get them to officially sign up and telling them where the hidden field at Lincoln Tower Park is. But hey we won 7-6! Woo go Fisher Gray!
9-10PM: Go home and lay facedown drinking Gatorade. But today's not over because I'm dumb.
10:30-12: Go play intramural Broomball with people I don't know. I am a crazy person. It's played with sneakers on a normal ice rink. I fell on my butt about 12 times and sent part of a broom almost into the stands that were filled with kids with nothing better to do than laugh at me fall on my face (no it was funny I don't blame them). I did not know this sport existed before OSU and now I have a sore butt from it. Oh and we lost.
1AM: Finally eat dinner. Subway was literally the only thing open since McDonalds switched to their breakfast menu at midnight. I do not like eggs so this did not fly.
2AM: Bed.
7AM: Study for marketing math quiz.
SOOOO that was my day and a little added afterward. It may seem like I was annoyed or frustrated with the day, but there are just so many opportunities to take advantage of at Ohio State and Fisher. If I went to a smaller school or one with fewer opportunities, my day could have been over early and I could have been sleeping by 11. But why waste what's out there? You're not going to find stuff like this everywhere or maybe anywhere else.