{"id":235,"date":"2010-11-07T09:44:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-07T13:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/questromgrads\/2010\/11\/07\/reflections-year-2-going-by-quickly\/"},"modified":"2010-11-07T09:44:00","modified_gmt":"2010-11-07T13:44:00","slug":"reflections-year-2-going-by-quickly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/questromgrads\/2010\/11\/07\/reflections-year-2-going-by-quickly\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflections: Year 2, going by quickly"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Tomorrow at 7am I will click on the \u201cregister\u201d button and sign-up for Spring 2011 classes. It\u2019s hard to believe that these are the last classes I will take at BU. It\u2019s my last chance to take a class that will round out my resume, or to finally sign-up for that class that everyone<\/i> says you can\u2019t leave BU without taking. I didn\u2019t think it would be this difficult, but how do I choose between a class that seems practical for my career aspirations and one that sounds incredibly intriguing, but is not quite career-related? And then, of course, is the secret (or not so secret) dream of every second-year: to only have class three (or two!) days a week so that we have time to \u201cwork\u201d and \u201csearch for jobs.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

All of this class planning has made me think about each day, each MBA event, each dinner with friends a bit differently than I had been. All of the sudden I find myself walking down the street thinking \u201cthis is the last Nov. 1 that I will spend in Boston\u201d or \u201cthis is the last MBA Halloween Party that I will attend.\u201d It feels sort of silly since, until this past week, I\u2019d only lived through one Nov. 1 in Boston and attended one MBA Halloween Party\u2014it\u2019s not like I have a huge history to reflect on. But I think it captures the essence of what the BU MBA program is like. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

We all uproot and move to Boston (and even if you already live here, your daily life changes so much I imagine that it\u2019s kind of like uprooting\u2026) and are thrown into a whirlwind of classes, networking, info sessions, and new friends. By the time the second-year rolls around, things become \u201cnormal\u201d\u2014you \u2018re back in the swing of classroom learning, networking becomes a bit less awkward, you realize that you don\u2019t have to attend every <\/i>info session, and friends become family. And just as that happens, you start looking ahead to life post-BU degree and you start to feel things tugging at your roots again. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve decided, though, that even with a move back to California, a new place to live and a new job (fingers crossed!) looming ahead of me, I won\u2019t lose sight of what\u2019s right in front of me now: three more East Coast seasons and a lot of time to spend with friends. And these last classes that I\u2019ve spent so much time agonizing over, of course.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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