All I want for Christmas is sleep

The semester is FINALLY over!  Technically the semester ended yesterday but I was a bit lazy writing the post.  With the MBA core and two engineering classes this semester the course load was quite high but I had an absolute blast.

Paul kills it with a Santa Beard
And gives me everything I want for Christmas

The end of the semester was actually relatively relaxing, because of the way my courses worked out I only had two finals.  Leading up to that was a pretty rough two week stretch but once most of the papers and presentations were out of the way it was pretty manageable.  Especially with Meggsa Clause in the LGO office to brighten our day

In typical MBA fashion we finished off the semester with auctions for charity and drinks for stress.  Not sure how responsible it is for those two to go together but I'm happy to report that the Caribbean ocean raised $8225 dollars for the Children of Fallen Patriots and Heifer International organizations!  I don't know the numbers or organizations for the other oceans but I know they also did great work.

Now that the semester is over everyone has dispersed and enjoying some well deserved R&R.  However the LGO 14's have our Domestic plant trek coming up in January.  For those that don't know LGO's take a two week plant trek across the US during January of their first year.  This year we'll be going to Raleigh, Detroit, Indianapolis, Austin, San Diego, Portland, and Seattle.  We visit partner companies of the LGO, see their manufacturing facilities, get face time, etc.  We even get to go nuts shopping at the Nike factory store (which I will spend way too much money at).  That trip goes for two weeks in January so I'll write multiple posts then keep everyone up to date.

On a quick last note I won't be in classes next semester!  Kind of bitter sweet as I felt like I just got here but also it'll be great to have my weekends back.  I'll be doing an off cycle internship at National Grid trying to optimize how they plan for and react to damage to the power infrastructure systems.  I've gotten my thesis advisors and had a few meetings and am extremely excited to get started.

I hope everyone has a great Holiday season!