Catching up with the girls

Last night the girls and I, minus Cathy went out for dinner at Press 195.

The food there was soo good!

I had an amazing drink - Raspberry Vodka with fresh strawberry lemonade.

I got the best hot press sandwich - inside it had mozzarella, tomatoes and the best maple pesto! :)

And it got even better for dessert

Underneath the massive amounts of whip cream was ice cream and the best part is the hot pressed banana bread with nutella, strawberries and bananas! :)

FSOT Results

I got my results from the FSOT today, sadly I did not make it to the next part of the process.  I needed a 154, but I only got a 145

Here is what the letter said:


To advance to the next step of the Foreign Service Officer selection process, the Qualifications
Evaluation Panel (QEP) review, applicants must have acheived a score of 154 or above on the
multiple-choice components of the FSOT and an essay score of at least 6 on a 12-point scale. Essays
were scored for those candidates who received at least a 154 or above on the multiple-choice section.

There were three parts to the multiple-choice section. You scored as follows:

Job Knowledge: 41.34
Biographic Information: 52.06
English Expression: 52.30
Multiple-Choice Total: 145.70

So close yet so far...

I guess I'll have to wait til next year to take it again...

Yale IV 2011

Just got back from a fun weekend at the Yale IV!  It was a good weekend - Silly Yale Tab Staff had me chairing all my panels... LOL.  I saw some good rounds and some not so good rounds.  Good times!

My favorite round has to be - This house believes politicians should be allowed to become lobbyists and vice versa.

The first half was terrible, but the 2nd half - two Vermont teams were really good.  The Government Member had me shedding a tear and his speech really made me love America! :)

The party was at a frat house - very Rutgers-esque and similar to any RU party, was broken up by the cops lol.

Unfortunately, the team was being lame and left early... along with the key to get back onto campus...  So... me being me and slightly out of it, attempted to climb the very large gate to get into Old Campus.  However Paul and Gabe did not think I could do it and flipped out before I could make up and over..

And of course some of my fav people who I had not seen in a while came/did not expect to see were at the IV, including Ellie, JJ, Michael and Andrew!

All in all - great weekend!

Big Bronx Complete!!!

IT'S OVER!!!!!!!!!!!!

Housing went pretty well for the most part, people knew what they had to do, who to pick up, etc.  There was a small mishap, but it was easily solved with a girl on standby.  Thank goodness she stayed!

FSOT

Today I took the FSOT, it was ok... There were a bunch of tricky questions - So while I didn't study as much as I would've liked... the ones I was confused about were things I would not have known or studied anyways.

For instance, something to the effect of "What African tribes caused the Rwanda genocide?"  The answer was Hutu and Tutsis.

Then there were questions like "what is babelfish used for?" and "what the iron curtain symbolize?"

And a bunch of random things like that.

The essay question was basically to what extent can we enfringe on privacy rights for national security.

The test was so fast, I was in and out in just 3 hours.

Just got a call from Susan from the Jamba Juice Local Ambassador program - so excited for the program!!!

2 days til the FSOT

Today I had my in-person interview with SWIFT with the Global Head of Partner Management.  I was also supposed to meet with the head of HR, but he didn't make it to the meeting...  And he was the one we were planning around... it looks like we will do a phone follow up interview.

I think the interview went well though... and if I get the position, I could possibly be going to Brussels!!!

After the interview, I met up with Adge and got a white hot chocolate cupcake from CRUMBS!!! :)