| Alooooooha. Damn I feel old. And extremely asian updating this. I'm only doing so because I was told to. I swear I'm not someone's bitch -- especially not Jin's. But I suppose I wouldn't mind humoring the bad poets out there once in a while...
Hm, so let's see. Where shall I start?
I spent a week near Greenwich Village at the broad2be program. It basically involved sitting on your bum for upwards of 12 hours a day listening to speaker after speaker with potty breaks and snacks in-between. Sound terrible? It wasn't. In fact, it was quite possibly the most eye-opening experience I could've asked for, given my naivete of the business world, business school, and beyond. The speakers were inspirational, brilliant, and, by most everyone's standards, successful. Yet the unconventional ways they went about their careers convinced me that even if I forayed into the business world and decided it wasn't to my liking, I still had a crapload of time to do a 180° and become a food critic. I kid. One can dream?
Still, it helped solidify whatever doubts I had about business and I met some incredible people there. And I learned how to network! In a non-artificial, non-irritating-myself sort of way aka the genuine way. To be honest, I had despised the idea of networking with the motivation of asking others for favors. Christmas cards? Happy birthday greetings to everyone? Are you kidding me? It struck me as fake in a see-through, god-you're-nauseating way. So during the entire week I filtered out their advice when we were told to "network, network, network!" I didn't want these successful, brilliant women to think I was merely a parasitical leech looking for a job. But on the last day, they actually bothered telling the shy, the feel-guiltys, how to network! So now I simply need to practice. Whoooo shall be my nexxxt victimmmm? :D
*one week later* -- Yeah, so I haven't succeeded at all with this networking thing -- especially since I've been in my house for the entire week. Doh. I'm a complete failure. -___-;
On a less selfish, personal note, I would like to throw in a shout-out for Georgia Lee's movie, Red Doors. (click!) She is an amazing woman -- just read her background and that's barely the tenth of it. But then again, that just might be because I identify with her extremely well -- what with Asian parents and whatnot. Watch the trailer! And come September, if you're still interested, email me and we'll take a trip to NYC to watch it. :o) It's won an award at one of the film-festivals so when it screens, it'll only be in the major cities. So help it make it down to the local theaters by going!
So besides a crazy jam-packed week and a few shopping excursions, that will be all! Perhaps if I feel particularly inspired, I'll update again with a few juicy tidbits about my zees as an RA...
Visit me at Princeton! I'll love you! Not that I'm needy. :P Mm, okay, I'm done. |
