The last two days have been quite relaxed. Yesterday, I did nothing but sleep. Blissful. I couldn't imagine I'd be one of the "losers" publicly declaring this on my blog a year ago but here I am... In the evening I went out for dinner with VK, an EC friend whom I'd met at a Dinner on campus. For non-HBS people, a little note, EC stands for Elective Curriculum, that's what we call second years on this campus. Us, greenhorns are RCs, required curriculum. The three of us braved the drizzle to get ourselves some tapas.
I highly recommend Small Plates on Harvard Square. They started us off with these lovely crepes with mushroom and cheese and then we had some Sangria, some raclette which VK highly recommended I try given my love for cheese. Some pork ribs, bruschetta with pesto and two or three other things which were just as nice. VK, K and I chatted a lot, she's quite the globe trotter and she told us all about her first year where she travelled wherever not. She's planning a new year's trip to Argentina and a spring break trip to the Galapagos islands. She asked us to join. It sounds inviting, only if my student budget doesn't run out by then!
VK and I chatted a lot about FOMO ( Fear of Missing Out) and dealing with it. Basically, accepting that you can't be everything to everybody. There's no way you're going to rush to ALL the speaker sessions on campus, have seventy board positions, be a Baker Scholar and attend every networking dinner. The sooner you make your peace with that the better. I think I was majorly FOMOing till a couple of weeks ago, now I'm just chill. This is the last time I'm going to be at school and I want to tailor it just so that I have extremely fond memories when I look back. Nothing more, nothing less. Was walking back when I bumped into a friend from my dorm on the way back, there was a mixer at Tommy Doyle's and she asked me to come along. Didn't enjoy it too much. Don't really enjoy hanging out in divey bars where I can barely hear the other people speak anymore.
The weather eased up today. My friend from my section ME and I kept up our tradition of studying at Starbucks. Basically, she studies and I chatter and then we chatter and in the middle of it we get some work done. Hung out, working on our cases for a while and then came back to campus. I'd promised myself I was going to go back to Shad from today. Shad is our gym and I love their exercise classes! Today, there was a Zumba class. The instructor was Latin American and she switched from Salsa to cha cha cha to Bollywood dancing to my favorite *drumroll* Bellydancing... I went in feeling pooped and left feeling fresh and energized, can't go to sleep now. It was SO much fun!! Definitely going to do more of this.
Went over to D's after that, our sectionmate LV was hosting a potluck dinner for the ladies in the section at her place. A very cute place too, very nicely decorated with little things like a Mexican batik painting, Dutch wall art, and a whole bunch of other things. Very artistic. We had lasagna, pasta with pesto and pine nuts, lots of wine, a beef stew, cheese, hummus, a selection of breads and if you think I'm done we had four cakes for dessert. No less! One of us had her birthday and we celebrated it as well. Was nice hanging out with the girls and chatting about a whole bunch of stuff! D and I have decided we're going to do this much more often.
And now, I'm sitting down with my cases. Got to get some studying done at some point I guess, no?
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