The race for the MBA has begun.
Orientation was on February 8th in Gainesville, FL at 7:30 am. For those of you who are not familiar with Central Florida, Gainesville is roughly 2 hrs from Orlando. So this marks the beginning of a commute that I'm sure I will dread. Once there, we have class until 6 pm. At least the normal start time from now on will be 8:30 am on Saturdays, but 7:30 am on Sundays. However, I don't have the commute until after class on Sundays trying to get home for work the next day.
As you can see, there was a considerable need for refreshments after the first day. For those of you wondering, NO, Captain Morgan is not in our MBA class. ;) I believe we have 59 students in our cohort.
The second day was an outdoor team building day. One of the activities we had to do was to climb up a pole and walk across a wire only holding on to ropes dangling from another wire above our heads. To give you an idea of how high up we were, I have posted a picture of someone else doing it. In case you didn't know, I'm not a fan of heights.
I did make it across, although not without at least once when I thought I was going to fall off. As you can see we are wearing safety harnesses, but doesn't seem to calm the fear of falling. It was a lot of fun though and I would do it again. I'm glad I was able to overcome my fear of heights to make it to the other side.
As for the MBA program, I'm excited to be doing it and had an awesome weekend getting to know my fellow classmates. It's going to be hard work but the rewards are well worth it. I'm definitely enjoying the contrast from engineering.
Surprisingly, approximately 75% of the class is engineers, so in some respects I'm in familiar territory.
As much as I can't stand school, I'm bored if I'm not being challenged and this will definitely be a new and refreshing challenge.
The other thing bugging me about my kitchen was the lighting it was always dark. I also wasn't a fan of the track lights that were installed because they looked cheap. A few weeks ago I got some new track lights that were on sale at Home Depot. I got 5 lights to make sure there would be plenty of light. And as usual this project turned out to be more complicated than I hoped for.
track ling would simply line up with the old one and cover the old paint but that would have been too easy. The new track was shorter and didn't line up perfectly because it was mounted differently.
One was the faucet which corroded a few month after I moved in and would not let you move it side to side. It was stuck in one position and I could not make it budge. I finally fixed that over Memorial Day weekend. By that time the drain under the sink had developed a leak and I was using a bucket to catch the water. So I learned a lot about plumbing that weekend but got it fixed.
Orientation was on February 8th in Gainesville, FL at 7:30 am. For those of you who are not familiar with Central Florida, Gainesville is roughly 2 hrs from Orlando. So this marks the beginning of a commute that I'm sure I will dread. Once there, we have class until 6 pm. At least the normal start time from now on will be 8:30 am on Saturdays, but 7:30 am on Sundays. However, I don't have the commute until after class on Sundays trying to get home for work the next day.
As you can see, there was a considerable need for refreshments after the first day. For those of you wondering, NO, Captain Morgan is not in our MBA class. ;) I believe we have 59 students in our cohort.
The second day was an outdoor team building day. One of the activities we had to do was to climb up a pole and walk across a wire only holding on to ropes dangling from another wire above our heads. To give you an idea of how high up we were, I have posted a picture of someone else doing it. In case you didn't know, I'm not a fan of heights.
I did make it across, although not without at least once when I thought I was going to fall off. As you can see we are wearing safety harnesses, but doesn't seem to calm the fear of falling. It was a lot of fun though and I would do it again. I'm glad I was able to overcome my fear of heights to make it to the other side.
As for the MBA program, I'm excited to be doing it and had an awesome weekend getting to know my fellow classmates. It's going to be hard work but the rewards are well worth it. I'm definitely enjoying the contrast from engineering. 
Surprisingly, approximately 75% of the class is engineers, so in some respects I'm in familiar territory.
I guess I'm becoming one of those dog people who can't stop obsessing about their dogs. I've enjoyed watching the evolution of their relationship and am glad they fight a whole lot less. It's always nice to snap a photo of two of them curled up together. After being alone for nearly two weeks this past Christmas, they had plenty of time to bond. I've noticed dramatic improvements anytime I'm gone for a few days, so being in Texas for 12 days must have been forever for the two of them. I've never seen them so happy as when I got back, they were running in circles around the house for probably 30 mins. or more.
