Anny’s World

On Sunday night during a dinner banquet, the dean of the school congratulated the room of 300 students for surviving academic hazing. Upon hearing that, I smiled for two reasons:
#1: I agreed with her that we were academically hazed.
#2: I survived!!!

We had a lot to read and a lot to do. Most of us were operating on little or no sleep, especially with a case competition where they gave us a case on Saturday at 5pm and expected us to compete the next morning. As tired as I was (I didn’t sleep Saturday night), as I was sitting in that room looking around at my also tired classmates, I felt such a great feeling of comradery. Everyone around me went through the same things I did and the support from those classmates is something that I can’t explain in words. It could only be felt.

The two weekends brought back memories of the days in college during pledging. It is weird how when you put a group of people in stressful situations, the result of it can come out with something so wonderfully great.

Back when I was 21 or 22, I was telling a story to a bunch of coworkers about a guy who was molesting me on the BART. The coworkers asked me how old the guy was and I said, “I don’t know, he’s middle age, around 30.” To this day, those coworkers still make fun of me for that comment because with people living longer, middle age should be in the 40s or 50s. I can’t believe the past 6-7 years have passed by so fast and that I am one year closer to middle age…