It's finally weekend!

I want to say what the title says, but I am just not in the mood for it. This semester is indeed the most intense semester I have ever had – and it’s not like my life has been that pleasant FYI. What I have to get done before this coming Monday is a ridiculously long list, long enough that I think I can have a post by just listing it.

These are what I have to get done for the next two days:

· Write a 3-5 pages long memo about the interview I had with a manager

· Write a 3-5 pages long memo about the speech of Mr. Campbell last week

· Finish an online quiz for my Production & Operation Management class

· Read a company’s employees’ handbook and find out all the out-of-date policies, then make some PPT slides about them

· Write another 3 pages long paper about my future career goal for my Financial Management I class

· Complete an individual assignment about proving the efficient evidences of some current industry’s stock market for my Security Analysis class

Something besides the classes:

· Talk to my girlfriend

· Participate in Earth Day activity with SIFE which will be doing some environmental stuffs around Warrensburg

· Part-time job for 3 hours

Maybe that’s it. Now it’s a Q&A section:

Why did I not do some of them beforehand?

- Because I had other things to take care of. What do you think?! :|

Will I be able to get all of them done?

- LOL

Thanks for reading. This post actually helps me get rid of one bullet:

· Write something for my weekly blog

And helps me relaxed a bit before continue with life. Yeah, I have to sleep also. Lacking of sleep makes me skinnier and my girlfriend has complained about it lately. You can help me by praying for me. Pray to Christ would be nice, but if you don’t want to, then pray to Buddha or Bart Simpsons or your neighbor or whoever.

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