Vivek Pai, MBA '11
Vivek Pai, MBA 11

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

FOMO! (Fear of Missing Out)

One of the first things you realize as an MBA student at the Johnson School is that life is very busy and exciting. The flip side is sadly acknowledging that you only can be one place at a time and that means missing out on some (many!) of the fun things happening on campus.

For example, yesterday evening was the end of a thrilling and very challenging week here at school. Packed with 2 mid-terms, numerous company briefings and the preliminary SCJ case competition presentation (more about SCJ in a later blog post) on Friday PM - sleep could only take a back seat! To kick back and relax once the busy week was done - I had a host of options -sleep excluded of course!. I ended up packing as many things as possible yesterday evening - attending an SABC kick-off meeting, followed by a volleyball game (Cornell put up a brave fight but lost in 4 sets to Colgate), followed by downing pitchers at Ruloff's ( http://www.rulloffs.com/ ), then dancing the night away with many of my buddies to a techno mix at Pixel ( http://www.pixelithaca.com/ ) and hip-hop at Level-B( http://www.levelbbar.com/ ) I used to be a terrible dancer but I actually got a couple of compliments on my dancing yesterday so these hotspots might have something to do with it!

The flip side to my fun night out was that I missed 2 wonderful house parties hosted by my classmates - oh well, I have to work on getting rid of my FOMO and enjoy each day to the fullest.

Back to studying for my Marketing quiz now!