Hard to believe but summer time is almost over! It is already August, and move in day back to good old SPC is only three weeks away. I have pretty much succeeded in most of the goals I set for myself this summer. The one that I definitely still need to work on is getting tan, or at least enough color that it won’t look like I am ghostly (I know Rezma and Aashish still do not believe that I can tan, and I need to prove it to them). This past weekend I visited my friend Dan’s who lives by Long Branch Beach, and the day that we decided to go it rained and was overcast. Still had a very fun time even with no sunshine. Looking forward to this weekend, since I am heading down towards Tom’s River. Hoping I can read a good book and successfully get some golden bronze coloring (not too much, I don’t want to have skin cancer or look like someone from the Jersey Shore, haha).
Although, I am really looking forward to going back to college for my last year, I am also really enjoying my summer and don’t want to come to terms with starting my last year of school. After working full time this summer, I realize that college is way easier than the working world. I think I would even take studying for final exams over working a 40-60 hour week. The days just go by too fast. It’s not that I don’t enjoy work, it’s just that I don’t feel like I get to talk to all my friends as often as I would like to. At least I always have weekends to look forward to! I think what I will miss and what I enjoy is being around a lot of friends 24/7. I have made some really amazing friends at work. So, in actuality I get to be with people I like a lot at my internship as well, but I only get to see them for an hour if I am lucky (unless we go to Turtle Bay for Happy Hour!). I just think it is finally hitting me that after this year, I am going to be out in the working world for real. No more internships, it is time for the real deal come next June. Definitely going to live this last year of college up as much as possible (while maintaining my grades still, I know if Kim is reading this she probably got real excited up until just that point, haha). I have a lot to look forward to in the future, but I don’t want to rush my last year of college. Hopefully the last three weeks of summer don’t go by too fast because once the first day of school comes, I know things are going to fly.
Next week is going to be my last week of working for MetLife as a summer intern. I am hoping that I have impressed them enough to get a job offer before I graduate in May! As I have mentioned before, I have made a lot of great friends at work. The interns I work with are all a part of another department (Brand Marketing where as I am a part of US Business Marketing). On the first week, I met my friend Sidney at a Usability Testing/ Focus Group and I got her email. From there, I got Leslie, David, Gloria, Kendall, and Parker’s emails and basically asked them to lunch even though I did not know any of them. It was kind-of like a blind date! (I was basically the freak that no one knew on the 39th floor, haha!) Luckily, they all accepted the sole US Business intern, and since then I have become very close to them all. Thank God I met Sidney or I would not have met any other interns or people that are my age. It is nice to have people at work that are in similar situations as myself. I go to the gym with them, get the chance to laugh and kick back with them at happy hour, and currently we are planning on bowling and clubbing nights. As I said, I really enjoy my job, but having friends like them makes my day that much better. I even got the chance to work on a summer intern project with them and their department, and it wound up being one of the things I can say I am most proud of this summer. So, for any of my friends from MetLife if you read this blog, I am happy I got to work with you all and I hope that in the future I will get the opportunity again. I am really looking forward to the outing we are having at the end of the week, and I think that we will all hang out again in the future.
Anyway, those are the most recent things that are on my mind. Hopefully, when I am done working I can write more before school starts. I know my blog will be lacking once the fall semester shenanigans begin!
