So yeah, Im currently looking for an internship for this summer. For those of you reading this that dont know me too well, I am a first year MBA Student at BYU. Now, the school career center keeps on sending out these mass emails to try to get us (the MBA students) to remember that the MOST important thing we can do is get an internship, because if you get one it just about guarantees that you will find a job after graduation.
Now, here is where the paradox starts. You see, the MBA program wants us to get internships (and we are pretty much left to ourselves as to where to apply and how to go about getting one), and yet this first semester we have more homework than any one person could possibly get done in a 60 hour week. As living proof of this, I have not had 1 week yet where I actually got everything done, so each week I actually get further and further behind on my HW. Its like a snowball thats rolling down the mountain. Im trying to melt it with a flamethrower at the same time, but its just getting bigger and bigger despite all my efforts. It sucks!
So, the Career center has given all of us first year students something called a "Sherpa." Its basically a second year student who acts as a guide for us, really though its just some dude who signed up for this position cause it would look like good service on his resume. Now, self interest doesnt bother me much, however if this guy is gonna do this he could at least be of some USE!! Its sad really, because all he has done is give me a list of crap that I have to get done in my free time! FREE TIME?! What free time?!
Honestly, I barely have enough time to sneeze and wipe my nose; thats how busy I am. So, Im griping I konw, but I just cant get over how much work they give us and then how much extra time they expect us to spend doing extra stuff. Its terrible, and I dont know how Im possibly going to get everything done...oh well.
I made a solemn promise to myself that I would NOT stress out this semester no matter HOW bad it got. I have held to my promise up till now (its been a month of school 1/4 the way done with the first semester, hell yeah!) and Im committed to staying strong about it. Wish me luck!
Tuesday, September 27, 2005
Sunday, September 25, 2005
Saturday, September 24, 2005
To Quote Snoop Dogg, "This Kinda $#!Z Happens all the time..."
OK, as promised, I am actually posting here. Im not sure who is going to read this, but frankly if it gives me an outlet to say all the stupid crap that comes into my head then I dont really care either.
That said, lets start by talking about music. For all of you audiophiles out there, I recently got an iRiver H10 20 GB MP3 Player for my birthday. Its great, its absolutely awesome, it does everything I want it to do. Its even aesthetically beautiful, its like something out of Plato's world of Forms. It is THE MP3 Player; iPod, eat your heart out!
Now, since I need to use this new toy, Ive recently rediscovered downloading music. Man I love the internet. I have acquired the new "Massacre" album by 50 Cent. Talk about redefining your music. "50" takes his rap to a whole new level of awesomeness with the phat beats and melodies that made us love him. He has gathered enough prestige in the industry to have other artists come and "guest star" on almost every track on the Album.
I think my favorite song from the album is "Gatman and Robbin" which features Eminem. Its like the old theme of batman meets new 21st century rap. Its got a hard edge to the classic theme with undertones of club dance beats. For those of you who arent into cussing though, I would suggest downloading the Clean version, its worth it.
My next new band is Fall Out Boy, particularly their song, "Sugar, we're going down swinging". This song, by its lyrics and energy, has struck a cord deep down in my soul. Everytime I hear it I feel like I can just go out and fight my way to the top of whatever I am involved in. The song is basically about the loss of much loved girlfriend, and how you gotta fight all the way to the end no matter what. My favorite part is the Chrous though, because its all about getting beat, but fighting all the way down, here it is for your reading pleasure:
"We're going down, down in an earlier round,
And Sugar, we're going down swinging
I'll be your number one with a bullet
A loaded Gun complex, cock it and pull it"
Again, whenever I hear this I feel inspired to keep fighting back and whatever struggles are plaguing my life. I love it.
My next new media thing is Firefly, the TV Show by Joss Whedon. I loved Buffy and Angel, but this is a totally different genre so I wasnt so sure. However, I have been pleasently surprised by this show. Its great, funny, and fun.
As an interesting aside, I was searching online for the theme song to FireFly (even though it sucks, I was just curious to see if the song had more parts that were Non-suck and they just used the sucky part for the opening credits, but alas I found out that the opening credits suckiness is basically the entire song) and I found a song by the band "Breaking Benjamin" called "FireFly" and I decided to check it out. Man, can you say good decision? Oh yeah, the song is freekin awesome! It rocks like old school alternative used to back in the early to mid nineties, before things went south. Im kinda proud of Breaking Benjamin for helping to restore my faith in new Alternative Rock. So go download their song FireFly and "So Cold". If the opening theme to the FireFly series was this Breaking Benjamin song, well, the opening would have been just awsome. It prolly would still have gotten canceled, but at least I could then tolerate watching the opening credits.
I think the best line from the FireFly song (the Breaking Benjamin one is):
"Take my hand, We'll be off and then
We'll come back again, To a different land
Now I like this way, You can go away
If you guess the name, you cannot replace"
Ahh, the power of the new Blog...Im liking this one much better than my old one. The layout is great. Ill catch you on the next one...
That said, lets start by talking about music. For all of you audiophiles out there, I recently got an iRiver H10 20 GB MP3 Player for my birthday. Its great, its absolutely awesome, it does everything I want it to do. Its even aesthetically beautiful, its like something out of Plato's world of Forms. It is THE MP3 Player; iPod, eat your heart out!
Now, since I need to use this new toy, Ive recently rediscovered downloading music. Man I love the internet. I have acquired the new "Massacre" album by 50 Cent. Talk about redefining your music. "50" takes his rap to a whole new level of awesomeness with the phat beats and melodies that made us love him. He has gathered enough prestige in the industry to have other artists come and "guest star" on almost every track on the Album.
I think my favorite song from the album is "Gatman and Robbin" which features Eminem. Its like the old theme of batman meets new 21st century rap. Its got a hard edge to the classic theme with undertones of club dance beats. For those of you who arent into cussing though, I would suggest downloading the Clean version, its worth it.
My next new band is Fall Out Boy, particularly their song, "Sugar, we're going down swinging". This song, by its lyrics and energy, has struck a cord deep down in my soul. Everytime I hear it I feel like I can just go out and fight my way to the top of whatever I am involved in. The song is basically about the loss of much loved girlfriend, and how you gotta fight all the way to the end no matter what. My favorite part is the Chrous though, because its all about getting beat, but fighting all the way down, here it is for your reading pleasure:
"We're going down, down in an earlier round,
And Sugar, we're going down swinging
I'll be your number one with a bullet
A loaded Gun complex, cock it and pull it"
Again, whenever I hear this I feel inspired to keep fighting back and whatever struggles are plaguing my life. I love it.
My next new media thing is Firefly, the TV Show by Joss Whedon. I loved Buffy and Angel, but this is a totally different genre so I wasnt so sure. However, I have been pleasently surprised by this show. Its great, funny, and fun.
As an interesting aside, I was searching online for the theme song to FireFly (even though it sucks, I was just curious to see if the song had more parts that were Non-suck and they just used the sucky part for the opening credits, but alas I found out that the opening credits suckiness is basically the entire song) and I found a song by the band "Breaking Benjamin" called "FireFly" and I decided to check it out. Man, can you say good decision? Oh yeah, the song is freekin awesome! It rocks like old school alternative used to back in the early to mid nineties, before things went south. Im kinda proud of Breaking Benjamin for helping to restore my faith in new Alternative Rock. So go download their song FireFly and "So Cold". If the opening theme to the FireFly series was this Breaking Benjamin song, well, the opening would have been just awsome. It prolly would still have gotten canceled, but at least I could then tolerate watching the opening credits.
I think the best line from the FireFly song (the Breaking Benjamin one is):
"Take my hand, We'll be off and then
We'll come back again, To a different land
Now I like this way, You can go away
If you guess the name, you cannot replace"
Ahh, the power of the new Blog...Im liking this one much better than my old one. The layout is great. Ill catch you on the next one...
Thursday, September 22, 2005
All Set Up!!
Ok, I just set up this Blog. Im going to do my best to keep it updated (yeah, I say that about all my pet projects, but this time I mean it!!!).
Ill post more later!
Ill post more later!
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