Even the weather is feeling under the weather

Feeling a bit under the weather. I guess sticking 325 people in the same room in the dead of winter with all these bacteria flying around is sort of asking for trouble. One of my housemates caught a cold, and has passed it on to me (or maybe I caught is somewhere else, who knows). So I'm trying to lay low, which is a bit hard with two assignments needing doing (Managing Organisational Behaviour's audit of a company and another Finance groupcase, this time on M&A, and I'm the projectmanager for that one). And even the weather has been looking a bit like it's under the weather lately. And I guess the nice thing about feeling under the weather, is that it's just nice to complain and moan a bit (that's why the English weather makes for such good smalltalk material). I guess I'll just have to whip out my tried and trusty medication-against-cold-and-moan-for-when-you're-feeling-under-the-weather: ice cream! In particular Haagen-Dazs, my favourite.

Our first week back in this term zipped by. It's strange how quickly you get back into a routine. One exception was Sundowners (our weekly drink-schmooze-catch-up extravaganza), normally on Thursday between 6 and 8 pm, it was now moved to Friday 6 - 9 pm. That way the execs that are in residence only every other week on Fri and Sat can come and hang out as well. And I'm happy to report I did just that, I hung out for a bit with Farhan and some of his exec buddies (they had me fooled for a while, just cause they're execs, doesn't mean they're all grown up), which was fun.

The Milkround is by now well and truly underway, and the first panicky messages are starting to appear on Portal (when is the deadline for company ABC? Why can't I find the application for company XYZ?), and I've already seen some Milkround-fatigue. One presentation earlier this week was attended by over 150 students, for a company (that shall remain nameless) that only offers 2 internship-spots. I caught a little bit of that bug and have gone out and bought a suit (haven't owned a full suit in over 2.5 years). Pinstripe and all. Not that I'm changing my mind on doing Milkround (although I will go to some presentations later on in the season: BP, Shell and Google), but I figure that at some point I'll start interviewing too, hence the need for a suit.