CV, CV, CV!

After five weeks of struggling to stay awake in classes and having difficulties focusing on studying, I have finally transformed into my study mode. This past week I began seriously studying every night for at least two or three hours. I think this is pretty good considering all the other projects that I have going on. Which reminds me, AT Kearny is finally over for me.
My AT Kearny management consulting project group made it to the Italian finals along with three other teams. Making it there was an accomplishment in itself. I learned a lot through this consulting project and I am really happy I did. Plus, now I have something cool to add to my resume.
The AT Kearny challenge will look great on my resume. I am happy to add it on there, and in fact I was suggested to hurry up and add it by the career coach the school hired for me. The career coach is really nice. I spoke with her on Thursday and she gave me tons of suggestions to help realize my goal of working in the fine food/beverage industry. I was a little disappointed to hear that I should keep my geographical location desires flexible, but besides that I was quite happy with the session.
But back to the studying… I think overall, I have at least a decent grasp of all the topics we are covering in school, except for the class Firm and It’s Environments. I really dislike the organization and topics covered in this class. I think the class is far too broad to have any kind of logical final. Luckily we are graded on a curve!

While I am studying a lot, I am also trying to keep one night a week open for fun. Last night I got to go to the Gambero Rosso Bere Bene Low Cost 2011 wine event. I loved it. Basically Gambero Rosso is a wine and restaurant guide here in Italy, and this event was focused on Italian wine that costs under 8 Euros. We spoke to the person who wrote the guide and who had the difficult job of testing 6,000 wines in 4 months (how do I get that job??). The man was telling me that this is one of his favorite cultural wine events because these wines presented here were what real Italians drank. Italians are not looking to buy 30 or 40 euro bottles of wine to serve with dinner every night, instead they keep good tasting economically priced wine around the house to drink. I like this strategy and discovered a few new wines that I like.

Well, that’s it for now. I will update again early next week!