Scrumtralescence

Wrapping Things Up

I may still have an entry or two left in me related to the topic at hand, but I feel that it is as good a time as any to have a random entry not directly related to my topic of management strategies in the commercial banking industry. The semester is winding down and so is this project, but I think my blogging career may not be on the outs just yet. I have had many ideas for entries lately, but due to time constraints, I have been reluctant to devote much time to off-topic entries. Plus, while my professor is still visiting this site and assessing me on it, I am reluctant to delve into matters completely unrelated to the class. So, this is a compromise entry with the following semi-related areas of discussion:
I have been regularly checking the stats on the site to see how my efforts at boosting the readership have gone, which I will outline in the required paper for the assignment. Among the listed stats is a listing of the visitors' domains and countries, which, interestingly enough, to me at least, includes six visits from Hungary. I was born in Hungary so this caught my eye. I am not sure if this is pure coincidence or if someone back home is keeping an eye on me. Either way, this is my chance to acknowledge this occurence, freak or otherwise.
In other news, this blog was originally meant as a way to do some research in the field which I was considering entering upon graduation and may still do so. I was hoping that a summer internship in banking would be the first step toward the job after graudation, but the banking internship did not come through. However, I was lucky enough to secure an internship with Sirva Relocation for the summer having to do with accounting, so I am completely satisfied with the unexpected turn of events. Whether the banking industry is in my future is fairly irrelevant. The blog forced me to do research on the industry, which is useful whether or not I end up with a related job. Overall, I am pretty pleased with the experience and think that it has at least given me enough practice with blogging to turn it into a habit. That could end up being a bad habit, but for now, I look at it as an excuse to write my thoughts down and maybe vent every once in a while.
Speaking of which, I will now attempt to tie this into a class-related topic. A few weeks ago, we talked about stress, time and career management. Currently, all of these topics loom large in my life, considering it is that time of the semester when weeks (and months) of procrastination are catching up to me and others like me. I do not think I am in that bad of shape, but from here on in, it is going to be a struggle to finish the semester. The strange thing is, I have been busy all semester. I have never really felt as though I have been blowing things off, but the seven classes with their group projects and tests and papers are really taking their toll on me.
Hopefully another topic for 251 related discussion comes to mind, but if not, than this is it and hope you learned something. Look for some non-banking related topics in the future.

Comments

Posted by: Elaine
Posted on: June 6, 2006 11:35 PM

You said to look forward to more blogs that are non-banking related...and that was a loong time ago. You lied.