Katie Krueger's Snippets of Gratitude

“You’re a loner!” says the speaker, pointing at me in front of the room.  I slowly lower my hand as 150 heads turn to look at me.  I can feel my cheeks getting flush.  “There’s no one else in the room like you. In fact only 1% of the population is like you.”  I had [...]

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If you are planning a party, you want it to be big, right?  During my two years as an MBA student, I’ve worked as the project assistant at the Weinert Center for Entrepreneurship.  One of the most fun tasks of each year has been planning the Center’s trip: last year to Chicago and this year [...]

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It took me a while to be able to honestly write this, but I love being back in school.  Sure, some people say getting a Master’s during a recession is a cop-out, but for me it’s awesome.  And why should I let a little thing like a recession change my course; I’ve been thinking about [...]

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Word travels fast when there are free things to be had.  Today at school, a friend told me (she had heard from a friend of a friend of a friend) that the mechanism that usually charges 10 cents per page to print in the computer lab was temporarily taken down.  Free printing.  Sweet!  All of [...]

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Being in school for the past 9 months required so much of my brain’s bandwidth that some of my regular functions got suppressed, or shut down completely.  First, it was excercise and daily gratitude.  Not a power combination in terms of making my life bearable.  Second, it was my optimism. I sat in classes with [...]

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Today is my first Monday of summer break,  or self-employment,  or freedom from thoughts of homework – depending on how you look at it.  I woke up, drank coffee, and wrote letters and cards to friends and felt so grateful for the break from school.  My first year as an MBA student was both exhilarating [...]

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