{"id":231,"date":"2011-01-18T17:37:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-18T21:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/questromgrads\/2011\/01\/18\/spring-semester-equalssnow\/"},"modified":"2011-01-18T17:37:00","modified_gmt":"2011-01-18T21:37:00","slug":"spring-semester-equalssnow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/questromgrads\/2011\/01\/18\/spring-semester-equalssnow\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring Semester Equals\u2026Snow?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Lauren Abrahams
<\/b>MS-MBA 2011
Public & Nonprofit Management
MBA Council, PNP Club, Net Impact<\/span><\/p>\n

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Spring Semester Equals\u2026Snow?<\/b><\/p>\n

As I write this, snowflakes the size of golf balls are falling on Boston. 3,012 miles away (but who\u2019s counting?) at home in Los Angeles, my sister is enjoying 81-degree weather. <\/span>While I\u2019m a bit jealous of her January beach weather, I have to admit that the snow is pretty cool. In fact, I\u2019ve added \u201clived in a real, live, snow globe\u201d to my list of Boston accomplishments. I\u2019m also proud to announce that I successfully accomplished my first car-digging-out over the weekend. (Sort of\u2026with help\u2026and it wasn\u2019t that <\/i>snowed in. But us Southern California kids have to start somewhere.)<\/p>\n

In other news, school has started! And as of Thursday, I\u2019ll have two classes under my belt thanks to BU\u2019s week-long intensive classes. Last week was five days of Clean Energy Services <\/i>during which I worked on a project with a solar services start-up looking to take their business overseas. Each team member researched solar energy and incentives in different countries to determine the feasibility of investing there. I chose to look at Kenya and learned a lot\u2014not just about formal solar energy policies, but also about all of the cool guerilla home solar systems that people build off-grid.<\/p>\n

This week brings five days of Negotiations<\/i>, one of the most popular classes here at the School of Management. After three days, I can tell you that while I\u2019ve overcome some of my negotiation fears, I\u2019ll still happily pay someone to do it for me. Definitely not one of my core competencies. <\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

The rest of the semester will bring Financial Statement Analysis <\/i>(another must-take at BU), Public Policy Analysis, <\/i>and Modeling in Excel.<\/i> Of course this is in addition to putting the job search into full-swing, staying involved in various groups at school, and putting in quality time with friends at the local pub before we all fan out across the country\u2014maybe across the world\u2014after graduation in May. If the past three semesters are any indication, it will be over before we know it!<\/p>\n

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