Wow, how the time flies. It’s been one month today since my last post, which is approximately 4 years, 7 months, 19 days, 16 hours, 45 minutes, and 23 seconds in internet time. And that’s about how long it’s felt like with everything that’s happened in that time.
Initially, my break from posting came at the hands of the end of one of my final quarters at Ohio University. I may or may not have had to stay up for 37 hours straight to finish projects and prepare for exams. For all you naysayers who talk of the detriments to working under pressure, I would like to announce that the three courses that caused my self-induced insomnia all came back with a nice, big A on my grade report. In fact, after a solid showing this past quarter, my cumulative GPA has risen to honors status, with an even 3.5- enough for Cum Laude.
So immediately following the end of the quarter, I had to prepare for the LSAT that I decided to take simply to have the option to go to law school if I wanted. (I know, I’m kind of a nerd.) I’ll find out on January 4th for sure, but I feel like I did pretty alright on it.
Then, immediately following the LSAT, I left for Chicago for my interview with Weber Shandwick’s Chicago office. For those of you who have been around a while (hi Grandma K!), this is the interview that stemmed from my Tweet back in August. I was planning on writing about the experience, as I was also supposed to be meeting with Fleishman Hillard and Ketchum as well (via the fantastic Bryan Blaise and Kevin Saghy). However, that plan was soon put to rest by a hard drive failure in my laptop the first morning of my stay. I happened to be in town for the worst day of winter so far, and must say I was not impressed. After everything I had heard about Chicago winters, I was expecting to be unable to move, not walk up and down the city all day. Certainly it was cold (-15 with the wind chill), but with a jacket, a hat and gloves (that would later be unwillingly donated to someone else at a McDonald’s), I was right as rain.
For those of you wondering, the interview went really well. I feel comfortable saying that, as less than a week following the interview I was given the writing test, the next step in the interview process. Having returned the assessment (which was actually pretty fun, again- nerd), it’s now simply a waiting game.
As great as the trip was: seeing old friends, meeting new ones, discovering the rocket-shaped rainbow-colored street lamps of Boys’ Town; it wasn’t nearly as exciting as my trip back to Ohio. It was a hell of a lot more pleasant, but definitely not as exciting.
But that is a story for a post on its own. Suffice it to say, I’m back. And I may not be a PRospective Employee by Christmas. Now that would be enough to renew my faith in the jolly man in red. I’ve got the cookies in the oven big guy.
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