Week 7 of Trinity

Crunch time is rapidly approaching. With that in mind, I had about 1.5 weeks with relatively few assignments so I did the logical thing and went to Geneva to see Yael. She spent a month there as a summer associate at White & Case and is now back in the DC office. We had a really nice time. The city was beautiful and it was good to catch up with her. Pictures to follow.

The day after my return from Geneva I hopped on a flight for my last 3-day trip to New York. During that time I won the "Weekend Warrior" award as part of the class Sylvester Awards Ceremony. I suppose it's fitting as I'm probably out of town more than anyone else; it's nice that people noticed. I also thought it was particularly important that I was not in town to receive the award. The winner's presence at the ceremony would have grossly devalued it. :) The less fortunate part about all of the travel was that assignments started up just after it was over and I had to miss my five-year class reunion at Wellesley. I was really looking forward to it but Annie called me from reunion so I got to talk to a few people. Being closer to home next year should make getting to this kind of event much easier!

I've actually spent a good bit of time at Brasenose during the past week. Graduate dinner was on Thursday and I did a 5K run for breast cancer with women from the HCR this morning. We held a fund raiser / tea in the HCR yesterday afternoon to raise money for the run and then I took Lindsay, Karen, and Richard to formal hall. The 5K itself was pretty fun. Afterwards Kerry took Megan and me into her lab, which was right next to the site of the run. We got to see her ferrets. She is finishing up her PhD and has been testing their hearing to help make better hearing aids for humans. Learning some of the (high-level) details about her research was really interesting. Tomorrow I'll be back at Brasenose for a ceremony for "leaving" students and formal hall with some Brasenose MBAs and guest MBAs, including my guests: Mukul and Hermeet. On Tuesday I'm taking my study group from first term to formal hall. I think I'll have been there more often in the last week than during the entire term!