First Annual Fordham ASCA Gala

Tonight was the first ever ASCA Gala, I had a wonderful might catching up with old friends from Fordham GBA!

And... Check out who made the back cover of the program!

Post Grad Celebrations

 

I can't believe that I finally graduated from GRAD SCHOOL last night!  I can now say that I'm an MBA Grad at 22, how insane is that?  I'm not even 22 1/2 yet - lol. Last night was bitter sweet, it's nice to finally be done with school, but sad that school's over - for a while at least...

 The ceremony was held at Lincoln Center, and it was short and to the point, 1.5 hours max.  However it was not the same, no throwing of caps at the end :(  which I totally called the dean out on afterwards!

After the ceremony, GBA held a nice reception for us at our Lincoln Center campus.  It was actually really nice and OMG the chocolate strawberries!!! YUM!  Marianna ended up coming out to the reception and I bumped into BoMa as well as my many other GBA friends new and old! :)

After the reception, a bunch of us headed to the Hudson Hotel.  The first thing I heard is - the dean is sitting in between the two bushes and buying drinks!  SKETCHY right?  But alas, it wasn't apparently it was like mini section separated by trees lol.  But wow, I was drinking at the dean at the Hudson Hotel!  He bought us drinks and even offered me a job at GBA! :)

Great night, I'm going to miss you all!

GBA Graduation!!!!!!!!!

Congrats to the GBA Class of 2011!!!

We finally did it!  We're officially MBA Graduates!!!

Thank you for the wonderful memories everyone!

First Day Back

Today was my first day back to Fordham for the Spring 2011 semester and my last semester of grad school!  It's so surreal - aside from the fact that i was in 95 degree weather just 2 days ago, but that I will officially be entering the real world as an MBA graduate in just a few months.

Today I was supposed to start my law/MBA class, but apparently that doesnt start til Jan 20th, so all of the MBA students showed up for no reason...  Oops...

My other 2 classes were pretty awesome, I think I'm going to like Thursdays!  I have Mr. Saharia for "IT Strategy & Management" followed by Travis Russ for "Communication for Entrepreneurs."  Let's hope the other two will be enjoyable as well.

This is the first semester in my entire Fordham career that I am taking less than 16 credits!

Congrats to Fordham University's Class of 2010!!!

We finally made it!

Last 1st Day

Today is my last first day of undergrad :(

It's so surreal, I can't believe I'm a 2nd semester senior.  I know this is cliche, but it seems like only yesterday that I started college...

1st Day of Grad Classes

 Today was my first grad class  I was supposed to have 3 but 2 of them got cancelled.  Apparently my Management Systems teacher sprained his ankle running...

Today I had Contemporary Issues in Global Finance with Professor Lothian, who is a student of Milton Friedman.  He seems really cool so far.  The class is a bit intimidating though, everyone came in with nice pants, and button down shirts.  When we went around teh classroom to introduce ourselves, evetyone was like my name is _____ and I hve a real job... where as I do not...  The professor remembered that i was in the 5 year program and seemed cool though...  I wonder what next week will be like... But I will say I'm excited to take a step forward and see what grad school will bring!

Spinning Pumpkins!

Mary, Matt and I carved a pumpkin tonight! :)

DEREK JETER!!!

Today I met DEREK JETER!!!!

He was filming a commercial for Nike on Coffey Field...


After a long wait I finally got to meet him around 8:15 PM.  He was very nice and signed autographs for everyone!

CONGRATS TO THE CLASS OF 2009!!!!!!

CONGRATS TO FORDHAM UNIVERSITY'S CLASS OF 2009!!!

I am going to miss all of you! You guys are amazing and you will all have a special place in my heart - you know who you are! :)

Grades Complete

I finally got the last grade I was waiting for that would make or break me! Waisman gave me an A in Corporate Financial Policy, I was shocked! :)

That brings me up to a 3.66 for the school year, meaning I made the dean's list for 08-09! :)

Encaenia 2009

Yesterday I went up to Fordham to support Jayme and Greg at Encaenia - Fordham's Award Ceremony. It took me an hour to get up there, it should have only took me 40-50 mins max. I got to hang out w/ everyone which was fun.

The ceremony itself was BORING, but it was very nice. I was proxying the annoying parent taking lots of pix for the DeSocios ;) At the reception they had tons of champaigne and chocolate covered strawberries :)

On another note, looks like I have a date (well dinner at least) w/ Mike next week! :)

DONE WITH FINALS!!!!!!!!!!

I'M DONE WITH FINALS AND JUNIOR YEAR!!!

I took my last 2 finals today in Operations & Product Management (OPM or Modern Operations Management - MOM) and Investments and Securities!

The MOM test was easy-ish, but the Investments test was HARDDD, everyone thought so, even smart people like Ray and Greg. That doesn't make me feel as bad about it.

What am I goign to do with myself now?

**EDIT Events later that night**
I went to the caf w/ John and Jenny, and bumped into Rose, Linda, Sarah, etc. Rose was flipping out, so I went to Walsh to help and calm her down, Waisman's take home final was INSANE! After that Connor came down and we headed to O'Hare to watch Wall-E!

I got bored and decided to text Mike, even though my friend usually advise against it for certain reasons which I will not mention. He called me around 1:20 AM to tell me he was going to Pugleys, so me being done w/ finals, bored and wanting to celebrate went out. As I was about to get there, I bumped into none other than BERN! We talked for a while, then all of a sudden Connor, and his roomies Matt and Tom came. I went in and finally met up w/ Mike, and then headed to chill w/ Connor. However on the way I also bumped into Kate Schweighart, talked to her for a bit, and then made it over. Everyone was out that night!

PARTY!

Last night was a lot of fun. The girls (Ashley, Becky, Jackie and Jenny) and I went out to Mugz to celebrate the last day of classes.

We hit up Mugz, there were a decent amount of people, including the Ramblers, Badness, and oh yeah, Danielle - MY WELLNESS RA! What?!? I kept avoiding her out of awkwardness...

Eventually I bumped into Bern, we always end up out together on the last day of classes. I <3 her! I also bumped into Kelly Chiang - BX SCI REPRESENT!

Official Last Day of Classes/NSO Training/O'Fair

Today was the last day of classes, although my last day of classes was yesterday.

I started the day heading to my internship, I was not bored today as I got to sit in on a conference call with Michael from Audio Galaxy, which was interesting. I love being able to see the behind the scenes stuff. After the conference call I headed back to Fordham for NSO training.

I was super late, by the time I got off the train it was 3:05 (training started at 3...) So I ran out of the station and back to capus, which took like 15 mins. When I got there, everyone was playing ice breakers. I found Susan and Katie, who were both acting kind of weird... I felt like they were trying to get rid of me...

After training it was time to set up for "O'Fair" - O'Hare's end of the year party! O'Fair consisted of a BBQ, w/ tie-dye, and carnival games! The party went pretty well and a lot of fun!

I spoke to Katie later, and she assured me that everything was ok and I was freaking out about nothing! :)

Newt Gingrich

Today Newt Gingrich came to speak at Fordham. He wasn't as boring as I thought he'd be, and actually quite funny. Although you could tell he was republican as he had dissed Obama numerous times.

UMCP Tournament / Spring Preview

UMCP

I was just in MD for the past two days for the UMCP tournament.

I traveled for oh 17 hours-8.5 hrs each way, and was there for less than a day, maybe 16 hrs top? I left Fordham at 4, right after class, traveling with a duffel bag, brownies and a plant in hand. I got to Penn Station for the 5:30 bus to DC, but got there around 5, as they said we should. Turns out the bus was 1/2 hour late, so we didn't leave until a little after 6 PM... The bus was filled, and they had to turn people away. I didn't get to DC until close to midnight, and not to UMCP until 12:30 if not later, my cell phone had died. From DC, I had to take the metro from their chinatown to the College Park metro station, and a shuttle bus to the Student Center from there. However I did meet a nice girl on the bus! :) She walked me to the Metro station and even offered to let me stay w/ her if i coudlnt get in touch w/ anyone. While taking the shuttle bus, i met a cute "wilderness paramedic," Alex, who gave me his # :)

The tournament had been done for a while by the time I got there, and everyone was at Johnny Mathias' place for the party. Marisol had told me that Ali would come get me, however, it did not seem like it. Turns out Matt Katz had come to get me, which was awesome! Eventually I had got there, however most of the Fordham team (minus Greg and Emillie) had left already :( I stayed for a bit, but would have preferred to have been w/ the rest of the team. Soon after the party had gotten broken up by the cops... Luckily cops at UMCP only break up parties and possibly fine you but thats about it.

I finally got back to housing and saw MATT SPOTTS!!! I haven't seen him in forever, as he is studying to be a Jesuit in Detroit, MI. He's teh only reason I made the trip down.

The next morning I judged like 2 rounds, and that was it. I got to see Victorio, so that was cool.

So when I finally got to the tournament, I learned that I would not be able ride back w/ the team and needed to find an alternate way home. I asked Sarah and Liz Zahler from NYU, how they were getting home, to see if I could take the train home with them. Apparently they had driven up. So after the team had left, I had thanked Liz for giving me a ride, and she said "yeah... about that...., we need to talk about that."

I was a bit bummed that the whole team was going to Sarah's after the tournament, but w/e there wasn't anything I could do about it.

Freaking out as we're walking to the car, I get a lecture from liz. Basically she was upset, cuz she felt that she was cohersed into giving me a ride back to NYC, I should've not been baking on them, and that if I needed a ride I should've asked sooner.... First, I didn't find out til I got my phone on (I had to stand in the corner of the metro station like a sketchy person to charge it) and I wasn't going to ask at the party - that would've been awkward. Second, I was not relying on them for a ride, I initialy asked them thinking they were taking the bus and wanted to take the bus home w/ them, and said I would've taken the bus home if necessary.

The car ride was not as bad or awkward as I had anticiapted thankfully! We were making good time, until we got stuck in Lincoln Tunnel traffic for 2 HOURS!!!

Eventaully I got home at 12:30 yet again, another 6.5 hrs travelling. Some how the team had gotten back an hour before me, while leaving the same time as us, and going to Sarah's for dinner?!? At least I got to see Matt Spotts.

Spring Preview
Today was Spring Preview. It was sort of a bust, as it was in the Ramskellar this year, and not many people made it down there as a result.

I saw Sean Frey, who I met in a car when Jan Michael drove me to Fordham from Big Bronx last year (Oct 2007). I gave Sean and his mom a tour and chilled w/ them for a while and called it a day.

Secrets of the Superoptimist

Today Nat Whitten, author of "Secrets of the Superoptimist," came to speak at Fordham. He gave a really good lecture. His book seems really funny.

Apparently I fall into his description of an "optimist" as I am always happy - lol who would've guessed!

Afterwards Becky and I went to the USG Candidate Forum, which was kind of boring... and left around 6:30.

I then pretty much bummed around the dorm the rest of the night.

RHA meeting in a few!

U2 at Fordham

U2 is coming to Fordham in <12 hours!!! I'm super excited!!!

**EDIT - POST U2**

Today I was woken up at 4:45 by a call from Jenny, who was online at the time. I told her I would be there ASAP, once I got the call. I slept a few more mins, woke up at 5 AM, quickly got dressed and such, and headed out at 5:15. The line was already HUGE by the time I got there. Luckily Jenny and Ashley had gotten there early. They were standing near the gym/mile-stones, if I had left the time I did, I probably would have been standing near where Keating ends.

We stood around for a while, eventually around 6:30ish they finally let us in! They had this guy do crowd control and try to entertain us... it was interesting to say the least. Finally around 7 people started to come out. U2 finally came out around 8 and performed some songs. They were awesome!!! Then they came out again and did somem songs that we actually knew!!! They were really awesome.

However, as soon as they came they were gone.

I tried waiting for U2 to c ome out of Keating but after 2 hrs and 40 mins they had still not come out. :-\ I had to leave as I was meeting the team at 12:15 to lead a group to West Point.

At 11:45 I timidly left, rushed, took a 5 min shower, packed, and headed to the Metro North Station.

IT'S MY BIRTHDAY!!!

I'M FINALLY 20!!!

That means not only am I no longer a teenager, but I'm now 2 decades old... not really sure how I feel about that yet...

Last night we went out to Mugz and OMG tonight my friends surprised me w/ a homemade cake! :) BEST BIRTHDAY EVER!!! I YOU GUYS!!!! <3 Last night we went out (Me, Ashley, Becky, Hilarie, Jackie, Jenny, Rachel, Alex & Will) to Mugz. I had 2 drinks and 2 shots, impressive huh? Needless to say they had gotten drunk. Everyone else got drunk as well... Ashley and Jackie kissed... 4 times. We had said we were only to go out for an hour or 2 - lol. That clearly didn't happen, we were out from 10:45 - 2:30 ish, followed by a dance party in our room til like 4 AM.

This morning started out kind of boringly, I did have lunch w/ Becky and Jackie though, followed with take out from Simon's with Ashley, Becky, Jenny and Sean. :)

Towards the end of the night I was a bit "mopey" as Jenny put it as I didn't have cake, so I was going to eat the cupcake that Rose had gotten me. I was going to eat it w/ Jenny, however she disappeared so I was chilling w/ Liz Donohue for a bit.

Danielle called and wanted to see us, so we went to the lounge and... SUPRISEE!!!!

Ashley and Becky had baked me a cake for my birthday! <3 Everyone was there as well! Ashley, Becky, Rachel, Jenny, Danielle, Andrei, Will, Alex, James and Diddy.