This post is being written in the midst of my energy drink/early morning daze with the greatest feel of happiness and madness. Finals season is finally upon us, well to be more exact it's next week for me, but aside from finals we also have a great number of final reports and projects to submit as well.
As I have said before, here in KU Business School, we are not students, we are employees expected to present our deliverables and final projects at the end of our short time here per semester. I have had the great honour of being chosen by two of my three groups to present our final projects to the class. I just got done with the first presentation, Organizational Behavior.
Organizational Behavior is hands down my favourite class I have ever had the pleasure to take. I am not sure what is the overlying reasoning for this, maybe it's the witty and wise professor, maybe my amazing group, or maybe that the class is largely discussion based which I really enjoy. The only bad thing about the class is only one student per semester gets A+, so the competition is pretty stiff, but as long as I get an A, I will be happy.
Anyways, back to this presentation, the professor seems to have high expectations for me, he usually calls on me in class for discussion and opinion so I knew I had to perform above standards, not to mention he was very upset with the midterm groups presentations for being dull so not only did my presentation partner and I have to be well-versed in our presentation but also be entertaining as well. I knew this was going to require every ounce of past marketing experience I could muster, and typically I don't practice for my presentations but this was a special case since the standards are so high and our group was depending on us for their grades sake.
Before the presentation, my heart was throbbing in my heart, and I had to take a second to steel myself to recall all the practising I had done, but in that instant I had to let my gut feeling take over and trust in my own abilities. Fast forward 20 minutes and the presentation was a major success, every question asked was answered with expert precision and there was a mumbling of people saying "really good presentation", "well done" the next group to present admitted that we put them on their toes hahaha.
I now have one more presentation to do, this Thursday, followed by three finals next week and one final the week after. Also, I am an official KU student, because after the presentation for Org Behavior was over and I sat down, I got a nose bleed and apparently you are not officially a KU student until you study so hard your nose bleeds?!
18 days until my return to Atlanta, every day now seems like a decade. This place feels more and more like home everyday, I am going to be sad to leave this wonderful place, but I look forward to seeing my family again, because my true home is where ever they are.
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