Academics

Well I'm 3 weeks into my senior year of college and I have to apologize for being MIA the last month! Life just gets so busy sometimes, but I hope I'll be able to check in more often! I miss this fun little blogging world!

Anyways, I hope you all are doing well! It's definitely back to the books for me as I dive into entrepreneurial finance, human resource management, strategic management, and conflict negotiation and resolution this semester! I love my classes and am excited for my upcoming class field trip to the DOMINICAN REPUBLIC!!!

1st Day of Summer School

Well it's back to work for me. Summer school work, that is. As tradition, I'll be dressing up for the first day! I'm thinking either summer dress and heels, or a scholarly, business casual look! I'm taking Finance and Business Law through August 10th, as well as studying for the GMAT. I'm excited. I spent the whole day running errands, and cleaning my room to prepare for another year of college, and I feel quite productive! I also got my Summer 1 grades back today from my study abroad/mission trip to Africa and was grateful that it boosted my GPA! Hopefully summer 2 classes will be interesting as well! Is it scary how summer is almost half over?

(Images courtesy of Lou Boos and Shoes, We Heart It, Flickr, and Always Carried Away, and here)

Summer Reading List

What are YOU reading this summer?

Yesterday I spent the day in my two favorite places! Barnes and Noble and the library! Yes, you can call me a nerd, but I love to read! I ended up with over 20 books and I'm super excited to start them all!

I'm still working on my summer reading list, but here is what I have so far (in no particular order)! Feel free to send me recommendations of good books you have read so I can complete my list!

1. The Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follett
2. Three Cups of Tea - Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
3. A Long Way Gone - Memoirs of a Boy Soldier - Ishmael Beah
4. Total Money Makeover - Dave Ramsey
5. Arguing with Idiots - Glenn Beck
6. Freakonomics - Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner
7. Blink - Malcolm Gladwell
8. The Tipping Point - Malcolm Gladwell
9. Outliers - Malcolm Gladwell
10. Same Kind of Different As Me - Ron Hall and Denver Moore 11. The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
12. Water for Elephants - Sara Gruen
13. Switch - Chip Heath and Dan Heath
14. Sold - Patricia McCormick
15. The Irresistible Revolution - Shane Clairborne
16. Blue Like Jazz - Donald Miller
17. Through Painted Deserts - Donald Miller
18. The Prince - Niccolo Machiavelli
19. Building Social Business - Muhammad Yunus
20. The Meaning of Night - Michael Cox
21. Eat, Pray, Love - Elizabeth Gilbert
22. Dune - Frank Herbert
23. Martyr - Rory Clements 24. Mark of the Lion Book 1- Francine Rivers

Side Reading:
GMAT Review, Maid of Honor Handbook (For my roommate's wedding!!), GIN Technology System, French Lessons, Spanish Lessons, Italian, German, Chinese, and Swahili Basics

Also, I thought I'd add some personal recommendations from books I've already read.


1. The Shack - William P. Young
2. Redeeming Love - Francine Rivers
3. Captivating - Johnand Stasi Eldredge
4. A Billion Bootstraps - Phillip Smith and Eric Thurman
5. The Last Lecture - Randy Pausch
6. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
7. The It Girl Series - Cecily Von Ziegesar
8. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald 9. Jane Austen Books


(Images - 1: French Vogue, 2: Dress, Design and Decor, 3: Matt Jones for ELLE Italia March 2010 via FGR and Dress, Design, Decor, 4: Tumblr - bienenkiste, 5-6: via always carried away, 7: Allison Steele Photography, 8: Wolfgnards)