HA. DONE.
After a month of interviews, meetings, writing, and practicing, our group finally presented our capstone project to the NY State Fair/ Empire Expo Center. Man oh man oh man. While our project turned out to be much easier than I could have anticipated, it was still a really really big pain. Specifically because we came up with all these great suggestions but we were having difficulty finding hard numbers to back them.
After an insane morning scrambling to practice our presentation and rewrite our note cards, we ended up getting to the center much later than we had planned. In the hustle and bustle of things, I didn't think of checking my email; if I had, I would have seen the email from the person we were presenting to, letting us know he couldn't find us a projector and we should borrow one before we do the presentation. WELL. When we got to the center, our client was no where in sight, and there was no equipment in the conference room we were presenting. And for some very awkward reason, none of the people in my group brought laptops [awkward because we always brought them]. Then my classmates and professors started arriving, and there we were, without anything to do our presentation with, and our client still missing.
Then there was a giant flash of light and smoke, the sound of a thousand bells chiming, and suddenly our client was there, there was a projector and a laptop, and we were able to present our findings. Magically.
No, not really, but thanks to the events marketing coordinator, who we had interviewed for our project, she somehow was able to make a ton of phone calls and conjure up all this equipment from seriously nowhere before the start time of our presentation. Talk about close calls. Our client was STILL missing, but we had the marketing person and the events manager, so we started without him. He managed to drop in after we only started for a few minutes; he was stuck in a meeting with the director of the center, but good thing he made it.
Anyways, from what I could tell, the presentation went well, and the Expo Center people seemed to really consider our suggestions. They were nodding in agreement during some points of the presentation, which really boosted our confidence [well, it boosted mine at least]. Now lets just hope I get a nice fat A on my capstone. It'll be pretty vital to whether I make it into an MBA program if I decide to apply for one.
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And goodbye to Syracuse. Monday I am off into the great horizon of uncertainty, living out of a [very large] suitcase and offering myself to any opportunity for me to grow.I can't believe I survived friggin Syracuse. Tromping through thigh-deep snow for 15 minutes to get to work, rolling out of bed and wrapping myself in layers upon layers before going to class. I can comfort myself in the fact that after Monday, I will never have to worry about ever being as cold I was here all winter long. Its summer and its STILL kind of chilly.
I have a job interview with a internet marketing company that has been called a spam company by someone I know. While I do not really know what my ethical stance on spam is, I don't know how to tell if the company is responsible for spam. As I was trying to argue on my other blog, internet marketing isn't all spammy. It depends on how its carried out and whether its directed at the right people. I guess I'll find out next Wednesday.
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