Back into the blogosphere...

Hello to any readers who are left on this blog!!

I have been unfortunately lazy and somewhat preoccupied with school, so I again fell into blogger negligence.

But now that summer is upon us, I shall be back with a vengeance and I promise that I will update back topics that I've been meaning to write about for a while!

Just to give a few quick recaps on my life:

• Orientation happened in August of '08 and it was a giant blur to me.
  
• Some of the core classes I took at b-school (e.g. Corporate Finance, Accounting) sucked the life out of me, but I did have an awesome learning team and I got to go to India for Spring Break with my Global Social Marketing Class (I will definitely post separately on that).
• I tried not to be a total lemming during the on-campus recruiting process, but did interview with one very socially responsible, large financial services company-- and got dinged!
• However, that was likely a blessing in disguise as I am now going to work in the Philippines for two months this summer with a community development organization.
• I've spent the past month being a total bum, doing absolutely nothing (besides some swimming/running-- I'm qualified and signed up for the NYC Marathon this fall!) and am leaving for Manila in less than a week.

One pictoral illustration of my time at school is as follows (and in case anyone doesn't remember how I look/can't tell the difference between Asian guys-- I'm the one on the right; and yes, that is beer spilled over our shirts):


As I am halfway through my graduate school experience, I have to admit that I haven't quite felt like myself in a while. In some ways, I feel like this last year was a lot about fitting in and I'm really hoping to snap out of the whole elitist, judgmental mentality that has been so strongly ingrained in my life up until this point.

I guess being in business school doesn't really help that... but I'm pretty confident that I'll reclaim my individualism soon.

In any case, you can all rest assured that Grasshopper is alive and well!!