It's been way too long!

I feel bad I haven't posted in almost a month; I guess I was much busier than I thought. I'll try to do a quick recap of my life over the past month.

My group project for International Management (the bad one) is all over with and we did okay. One group member talked for 25 of the 45 minutes on her country which messed the rest of us up, I'm still angry about it to this day, and I admit, a little embarassed because our professor had to cut us short.

I had another mini presentation the week before Thanksgiving for my Organizational Behavior class and that went really well; we got a 96 so I really can't complain! I finished a 5 page paper for that class and handed it in on the 26th so I got an additional 5 points on it.

Thanksgiving was fantastic! I went to my grandparent's house for lunch and then I saw my dad for dinner and we had so much food left over that I'm still munching on some turkey from my dad's. :)

Tomorrow I'm done with classes for the semester. I have one exam tomorrow and how I do on that exam well determine whether or not I take the final because it's up to me. I'm a little frustrated that I'm done on December 3rd, and then I have to come all the way back to campus on the 11th to take a final for Macroeconomics. I really wish I could take it earlier but that's okay I suppose.

I can't believe this semester is over already! It flew by so quickly. I also can't believe that yesterday was 60 degrees! December 1st and I felt like I should be in Florida, it's crazy. My roommate and I have started to decorate our apartment with a christmas tree, candles in the windows with some fake snow sprinkled on the windowsills and snowflaks hanging from the doorways. I ordered plenty more decorations (because Christmas is my favorite holiday) and I can't wait for them to come in this week so I can finish decorating!

So now I'm just working in the office and I can hear some people listening to Christmas music which makes me happy :) We have an Ambassador dinner tomorrow night in the North End which I'm really excited about! Yay food! Speaking of which, I think it's almost lunch time for me!

Weekendddd!

The past few days, and the next few days have been and are going to be very busy for me. To recap my last week, I went to the Coldplay concert with my roommate at the Garden on Wednesday. We were in section 3 and had a wonderful time! The performance was unlike anything I had ever seen before. There were amazing laser shows, these orb like objects that hung from the ceiling and played back the concert as though it was a music video. A fellow Ambassador, Lisa, was also at the concert and wrote up a great review of it. Check it out here. I really wasn't a fan of their opening act Duffy. I found her voice to be extremely annoying in concert and her dance moves needed much improvement from her step-touch and snapping of the fingers. Ick. Maybe I'm too critical, but I just was not a fan.

I went home the following night and spent the weekend at home working at the hotel and playing with my puppy Ruby. For Halloween I had to work for a while, but we were allowed to dress up so I was a Roman Goddess which is only fitting because I'm Italian, and the hotel I work at has an Italian inspired theme. After work I hung out at home with my mom like I usually do every Halloween because it's her favorite holiday.

Sunday I went to the Rascal Flatts concert at Mohegan Sun with my best friend Melissa. This was the 3rd or 4th time I've seen them and each time they have been amazing! Coldplay and Rascal Flatts are obviously extremely different with one being rock and the other country, but I could watch them both play for hours and never get bored.

On Monday I have a huge 45 minute presentation for International Management about Central and South Asia, and I feel prepared in what I have to talk about, but I'm truly concerned for the rest of my group. We're set to meet tomorrow in the library and go over everything. I really wish the presentation was done already, but the other members still haven't finished their slides. I'm extremely nervous about this presentation because I don't want to fail. I'm not nervous about speaking in front of the class, I'm just worried about my other group members.

I have Office Hours this Saturday and Tuesday (yay Verteran's Day and not having class). Next Saturday, the 15th, is Suffolk's Open House so all the Ambassador's will be together and working. I'm also hopefully having a few friends over that night to relax, watch a movie, order some food; basically just have a good time.

I also CANNOT wait for Christmas. It's really my favorite holiday and I love putting up Christmas lights and decorations! I'm going to go home tonight, pop in Love Actually (the most brilliant and funny Christmas themed love story on the planet) and wait for my PeaPod delivery. It's going to be a fabulous night!

Enjoy a few pictures from Coldplay and Rascal Flatts. I can't wait to see them come around again!

Just had to...

Me and my new puppy Ruby.




I'll have an actual post later on, but I said I would upload some pictures of the little fluff ball.

Evening...commissioner

So much has been going on lately and it's kinda ridiculous! Friday my roommate and I went shopping at the Cambridgeside Galleria Mall in Lechmere for cute dresses for her birthday party the following night. We went to Macy's because they always seem to have a good selection, and we ended up finding the same dress in two different colors that we decided on. While this may sound silly, we were the hostesses so it made sense to us. When we went to check out, her dress came up to $69. which was how much the dress was, but mine came to $4.30. Weird, right? We never got a solid explination as to why there was a $65 difference besides the dresses being two different colors. As a birthday gift, I bought the dress for her.

Saturday was my roommates birthday party, and a few of her friends from home came in early to help us get ready with snacks and decorations. Around 30 people showed up throughout the night so it was a great turnout! We had the game on which was a lot of fun because people get really into the game and start yelling and screaming at the tv.

Sunday was a really hectic day for me. I had two exams on Monday: Data and Decision Analysis and Macroeconomics. I also had an outline due for my International Management class so I spent all day Sunday studying for my two exams and writing up my section of the outline about Kazakhstan. Most people have heard of that country from the movie Borat, but that movie really has that entire country wrong. I never really found that movie funny, but so many people rave about it. I've watched it once and tried to a second time, neither time resulting in any more of a reaction than "What am I watching?"

I think I did pretty decent in my Data and Decision Analysis exam. I don't think I really struggled with many problems. The bonus question, worth 5 points, I didn't do because I forgot how to deseasonalize data which I need to know to do the rest of the problem. Bummer.

The other 3 members of my group didn't turn in their section of the outline. I don't even want to spend more time complaining about my group, but I emailed my professor early Monday morning expressing my concerns to her, and when she looked at our outline, she saw I had completed my country but my other teammates had not. Needless to say she was not pleased and let it be known to the other 3.

My macro exam only lasted about 40 minutes which I was surprised about because I flew through it. There was only one problem I wasn't confident on which was 16 points, but I did my best to do as much as I could so I'm hoping for partial credit.

It was a very typical, very stressful, very upsetting Monday. Thank goodness it's over! Next up for me is finishing that dreaded outline with my group, formulating a homework assignment for the presentation, reading 3 chapters for a quiz tomorrow, and writing a short 2 page paper. Lucky me.

On a side note, my grandparents are coming to visit on Saturday! yay! They finally get to see where I live. My roommate and I are also going home that night because my family got a new golden retreiver puppy and my mom and stepdad will be at a Halloween party, and my sister will be in Florida, so I volunteered to sit home with Ruby (that's the dog's name although I don't know how I feel about it yet). So I'm going to have a swinging good time Saturday night with my roommate, my best friend Melissa, her boyfriend, and my friend Matty (aka the love of my life haha). We're going to order some food, watch a movie and babysit. I'll definitely be posting pictures of the little fluff ball.

I Need a Nap

I think I sat staring at the computer screen for a solid minute before I even began typing; yeah I'm that tired. I tend to wake up a lot during the night, last night especially. The walls in my apartment have proven to be impossible when it comes to putting tacks or nails in them, so instead all my stuff is being held up by those sticky squares that are supposed to be heavy duty...yeah not. At about 430 this morning I woke up because one of my picture collages fell down which of course resulted in a loud crash. Then at 815 someone below me was playing music and it was unusually loud outside; my life is not fair.

I have this huge 45 minute presentation due for one of my classes in less than a month, and my group is getting together for the first time today. One of the members can't meet, so it will be 3 of us, or maybe I should say just me because one girl is constantly on her phone, and one guy just doesn't say much of anything. I've never been the type of person to jump into being a group leader, but I guess I'll just have to be this time. We need a final outline done by the 20th, and I'm thinking about starting it before I head down to meet them just so I don't have to painfully sit there with them and end up doing it all myself anyway.

Has anyone else ever had this sort of situation before? Any help would be greatly appreciated! I already told my professor about my concerns weeks ago but she did nothing to help me. I never felt more frustrated than when we had to do a negotiation exercise and (with one missing group member) the other two left me hanging to do it all myself, and I wasn't sure if I was doing it right. Even when I tried to get them involved by turning to one of them and saying "why don't you take this?" they looked at me like I had 3 heads and never really did what I asked them to do.

Other than my deep concern for failing this presentation, things are going well. My roommate turned 21 two days ago, and I baked her cupcakes and decorated the apartment, and we're going to have a get-together next weekend with some of our close friends. I ordered groceries last night through PeaPod and I'll get those delivered tomorrow, so I'll finally have food to eat! yay!
It's also a long weekend which is exciting, but I still have homework to do and I have to work for Admissions on Monday giving tours, but there's a great group of us working together so it'll be a lot of fun.

My mom's coming to visit on Sunday, so that means free food and other various goodies! I'm seeing Coldplay with my roommate on the 29th, I think I'm going to Six Flags for free (thanks to my sister being a DJ and getting free tickets to basically everything) on November 1st for Freight Fest, and I'm seeing Rascal Flatts with my best friend Melissa on November 2nd, all the while working at the hotel in my hometown. It's going to be a lovely end of the month of October, and an even better start to November.

And on that note, I'm off to the Welcome Center to get something to drink, and to do some work up here in the office all the while pondering how to hang my stuff up in the apartment. Have a lovely long weekend and enjoy the gorgeous weather!