Grad School Business

Stern preterm starts tomorrow. We have spent the last few weeks with me visiting canada (visiting a friend and activating my student visa, rather than being a tourist), briefly holidaying, and then gathering items in the midwest to bring to NYC. This can be explained through my gf being from the US, Indiana to be precise, so the last few days have been spent within a 16ft Penske truck on a variety of interstates. My diet is shot, but I have seen some pretty interesting places along the way, and secured (on the fourth macstore!) my Macbook Pro. The one luxury I am allowed, bar two years off work and a masters degree…

To add to the past two months stress, the apartment doesn’t start till Sept 1st. Strangely, all the companies that advertise “1st month free storage” mean it, even if you are going to use the facility for just two weeks. So, the only money that changed hands was the admin fee (moving to the US makes you comfortable with such charges very quickly) and half the furniture rests in New Jersey for a while. They will be picked up two weeks, along with a trip to Ikea. The last time the gf and I visited Ikea our relationship nearly ended. Hopefully the past months have hardened us such that it will not threaten the same this time. Driving a truck through the Holland Tunnel will cause troubles though.

With all this going on I am thankful that Stern are helping with other issues I have to see to - namely photos for the column I will be writing over the next two years. The newspaper want pictures from around campus, and the school are being great in looking into what will work, noting themselves that I will be pressed for time over the next few weeks with pre-term. Not taking into account the waiver exam, and tomorrow being a days study for the accountancy and math prerequisite tests.

Following the last two months, I doubt my life can get busier, but I will just wait and see.