The Most Busiest Time of the Year

Alright! I know it isn't correct grammar to say, "the most busiest time of the year," but hey, I said it. Also, I can't get the opening quotation mark to face the right way on this darn blogger, so don't hold it against me.

Yesterday, I gave a presentation in Higher Education Finance on designing higher education finance policy at the state level and capacity issues in higher education. I was SO nervous, but it actually went really well. Then, we got our midterms back and I did so much better than I had expected. Some friends from the cohort and I grabbed a beer at the Tap House after class. We talked about Higher Ed. while we were there! Even fun is business here. Or maybe, that's just me. I've been known to be an all business all the time --or at least most of the time-- kind of girl.

Okay. It's official! I'm swamped! Though I knew this was coming, I underestimated just how busy I would be. I am currently working on:

a policy memo for my Faculty and Academic Governance course
a longer final paper on community college presidents for the same course
a short documentary on for-profit colleges and universities for my Contemporary Issues course
a paper to go with that documentary
a group project in professional development
a short book review on Creating the College Man, 1890-1915 by Daniel Clark for history

and there is a lot going on in admissions right now too!
Lindsey is planning our On Campus Information Session for this Saturday, November 12th!
I am working on our General Information Web Chat for November 17th!
and we are both planning campus visits!

This Friday, our cohort is going in style to the Graduate And Professional Student Assembly's Black and White Formal at the Ritz! We will start at the home of  one of our cohort members and go form there! It is going to be amazing!

I am pretty sure that with all this going on I am going to forget that it is my birthday on Tuesday! Honestly, I do not think I will have time to celebrate it, which is very unusual for me. I LOVE birthdays! One of the cohort members, Doug, has a birthday near Thanksgiving and has offered to do a dual celebration with me later, so I am going to look into doing that.

There has been so much going on that there is hardly time to reflect. Good thing I have this blog!