Day 8: The Final Grind Begins

Today honestly did not feel like a Friday because I didn't have cohort. In other exciting news, it was the last day of my Global Asia recitation. My TA was extremely helpful in teaching us how to structure a well-organized essay that fully answers the prompt. I'm so glad that I had her as my TA.

After that, I went to a USWIB event where members got to have coffee chats with SWIB members. I spoke to an MBA student that wanted her degree to switch into a consulting career from a financial services career. It was really enlightening to learn about why she wanted to make this choice, and her experience with both industries, especially since I'm interested in both of them. She gave me great advice about college, and I hope to stay in contact with her after our coffee chat.

After heading to the gym and relaxing, I decided that it was time to start preparing for my final exams and papers. I thought why not get a head start on them so I don't get too stressed out? I invited my friend Varsha, who I met from participating in the Net Impact Case Competition, and we headed for Stern. We first checked out a nice study lounge on 4th floor KMC, but eventually migrated to the third floor lounge after making a trip to Sidestein. We stayed from 7PM until 3AM, and that was the longest I ever studied in one sitting and stayed in Stern. While I studied for extremely long and stayed up so late, I did feel pretty accomplished afterward. After heading back to my dorm, I pretty much passed out even though I took a pretty long nap after my workout.

Work layout ft. my string cheese from Sidestein

Blogmas Day 3: West Village Cohort Brunch

Every cohort gets a budget to organize some sort of event. My cohort director decided to organize a brunch at Le Midi for 15 people to attend. Of course I RSVPed for this all-expenses paid brunch. Unfortunately, because I mixed up the dates, I didn't realize I had a conflict with this event until the day before.  

I had an interview for Operations Co-Chair for USWIB an hour into brunch. As soon as my interview ended, I rushed off to brunch with my cohort 

Although I showed up late to the brunch, I still had time to order a meal, and got steak and eggs. In brighter news, I was not the last person to show up.

After a filling meal, I had a nice break before my first microeconomics review session began. We went over some problems from previous finals exams. The review session was pretty helpful because most of the material we went over was from a while back.

Mixed strategy

I'm trying to be more healthy by going to the gym more often. I don't want to wait for 2018 to begin for me to start, so I decided why not start today? I like to walk directly from Stern to 404 because the distance is shorter, especially in the colder weather, but that means I have to pack my gyms clothes and wear my sneakers. 

Later in the night, my team and I worked on VINES for the Net Impact case competition.

My day was pretty packed in comparison to yesterday. 

Blogmas Day 2: Swiping Away

I never believed them when they said I would have leftover meal swipes at the end of the semester. After all, 225 meals is only two meals per day. But considering all the free food NYU and Stern gives, I have way too many swipes leftover (not including dining dollars).

I accidentally mixed up the dates for when my cohort brunch was supposed to be, so I walked all the way over the 14th street and into an empty restaurant. When the waitress told me there was no reservation for West Village, I awkwardly excused myself by pretending I had to make a phone call. Since I was once again so close to Palladium, I decided to walk over and check out what they had for breakfast. It was pretty similar to Lipton. At each station, a chef made the food for you or served it to you. After getting food from each station, I didn't realize that it may not have been a buffet style dining hall but didn't care because I had too many meal swipes. Honestly, it was time to start living and not being to conservative with them. I looked pretty weird with the amount of food I had on my tray, but the omelette and waffle were really good, and I took home some delicious pastries.

Blogmas Day 1: Stern Exchange & Union Square Holiday Market

Vlogmas is a big thing on YouTube, but since I don't have a YouTube account, I am going to blog for the 25 days up until Christmas!

Today was the last day of Cohort. For the past few weeks, Stern has been inviting alumni to come talk to us about the different industries students go into after they graduate. The Stern Exchange is supposed to be a nice wrap-up of all of these talks, where the freshman can network with the different companies that recruit at Stern. They had these really swag bags for everyone with cool items from every company. I think mine was missing a pair of Google sunglasses because I saw everyone else had one. At the event, Stern hired caterers to serve us Shake Shack, Chickpea, and drinks. I stayed a while to talk to various companies and learn about their programs, which was mostly for sophomores and above. Overall, the SternTalks were a really great experience for me.

Later in the night, I went to the Union Square Holiday Market with USWIB. All the shops there were extremely cute and artisanal. Although my mentor could not make it, I had a lot of fun browsing through all the artistic creations my friend, Sonia, and I met someone new, Gabe, Sonia's friend. The shop that was most unique was a chocolate shop that branded their product as so soft that you don't need to chew it. Their samples were quite delicious, and they tasted just like truffles. Since Union Square is pretty close to Palladium dining hall and we all live pretty far from it, we decided to grab dinner after. After talking to Gabe, I learned about the intramural volleyball team, which I'm interested in joining next semester. I'm pretty glad I went because I had a great time, and met a new friend.

Super Long Hiatus~~NYU STERN 2021

I haven't posted in forever because I have just been so busy with first semester senior year. Just balancing school work and extracurriculars along with college application was extremely stressful. Now that that's over, I can get back to spending time on things that I enjoy, like blogging!

As I already mentioned in the title, I'm super excited to announce that I'll be attending NYU Stern School of Business in the fall!

Decisions came out on February 15th at 5PM, but I waited a little to open my portal. Once I was on, I gathered that I was accepted before I opened my letter because there was an accepted/decline option. The preceding week dragged with anticipation, and I was filled with jitters when decision day finally rolled around the corner. I've been relaxing (but not too much--can't let senioritis overtake me) now that I've been accepted to college. It's a wonderful feeling knowing where I'll be next year and not having to worry about anymore about the admissions process anymore: standardized testing, GPA, extracurriculars, essays, letter of recommendations, applications fees, interviews. It is--was--a lot.

Ultimately, it's manageable, and the results are forever rewarding.

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Once I got accepted, I toured NYU about a month later on March 17th. I visited Washington Square Park, the Kimmel Center, Weinsten Hall, Bobst, and Stern. Bobst was absolutely beautiful; I can imagine myself spending a lot of time there already. After the tour, I went to the bookstore to purchase a Stern sweatshirt, which I am sporting all the time now (go school pride!).

Washington Square Park

When you can resist the Pusheens :3

Wearing my sweatshirt at the National Museum of Natural History--post coming soon.