Week one of orientation taught me that the b-school experience at Anderson is filled with normal people who have an uncanny ability to act crazy if given the opportunity, goodies, food and more food, and events full of amazing fun.
I arrived the first day, and immediately gathered round my fellow San Franciscans who I met previously at a variety of happy hours up in the Bay Area a mere month before. While we only knew enough of one another to have briefly exchanged phone numbers or business cards, there was an instant kinship comparable to the other 300+ students that we had yet to meet. We all gathered in three rows in Korn Hall and passed whispers of our pre-formed opinions of our new classmates based on their responses to the 2010 Anderson Yahoo Groups. There was a nominal agreement that the need to reply to all with a few sentences was generally annoying – do these people know email etiquette?
All thoughts were quickly shattered and our group was scattered as we were divided-up into five sections from A to E. *** This is obviously where I have to give a shout-out to my Ultra Super Cool section leader and fellow student blogger Shianne Park – oh yes, and I probably should throw in Josh Horwitz for good measure as well. These two 2009 candidates dubbed my Section - Section B - the Blues Brothers - and took the lead for more than 70 unsuspecting classmates in the class of 2010.
The remainder of the week was a whirlwind of different events. I vaguely remember jumping off of tall telephone poles, spending more than half the day with an improv group, something involving loud cheering (including the aptly renamed b-side cheerleaders - GOOO SECTION B) and nearly turning over a bounce house at the end of the week. It leaves me wondering what’s in store next week.
