Nov 2, 2007
Paul Boupha

I feel so SWAMPED…
Dropping my econ class has opened the door to way too much extra curricular and random appointments this quarter. There’s JSA, ASC, Senate, and AKPsi along with classes on top of that to worry about. Blargin! Even with successful time management, these are such huge tasks to juggle.

+ Sunday: AKPsi fundraiser 7-12am
+ Monday: JSA Masturi decorations committee meeting 3pm, phone interview w/ Microsoft for business communications class 4pm, AKPsi fundraiser 7-12am
+ Tuesday: ASC handbook before 1:30pm, ASUW Senate 4:30-7pm, AKPsi pledge meeting (with a quiz might I add) 7pm
+ Wednesday: ASC social kickoff 5-7pm
+ Thursday: OMG a day I’m finally free!…but I’ll be using it to catch up on homework, errands, and groceries…sigh
+ Friday: Register for classes 6am

Speaking of which, classes for next quarter are tentatively:

  • ECON 300: Intermediate Microeconomics
  • SIS301: War (for my international studies minor)
  • MKTG 445: Multicultural Marketing

    So next quarter, JSA & ASC will become even busier because of the ASC Talent Show for February as Asia Month (although it coincides with Black History Month??? Haha) and JSA’s Masturi. Also, I’ll have to fiddle with Senate somehow because it’s just a huge bulk of time on Tuesday nights. But I hope to have a lesser time commitment for AKPsi after I’m done with pledging and finally get initiated. However, my marketing class is going to take up the bulk of my time. It’s somewhat like an internship. They put you into small teams and give you one marketing consultant adviser and a rotary club member and then have you analyze a small business in Seattle with a large potential growth. You identity their strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats then work on a portfolio on how they can improve their company. It’s like an unpaid internship moreless. From what I’ve heard, this class was extremely worth it but a massive time consumer. Hopefully, I’ll be able to get into this class in the first place.

    Oh that reminds me. I’ve decided to study abroad in Shanghai for summer 2008. I need to get back to my Chinese roots and make my grandparents proud haha. Sigh..but that means I’ll have to research this mother next quarter too. So I can add that to the list of things to do.

    I hope all of this is going to be worth it in the long run. I see the value in all these tasks I load upon myself, but I wonder how much I can mentally endure such a grueling schedule. All in all, I do it because I enjoy it. Although I am fatigued, the result of hard work at the end of the day makes me more fulfilled than any 4.0 in a class could ever provide, not to say that those wouldn’t be nice as well.

  • 2 Comments

    • you’re pledging for akpsi?? haha.. that’s cool.. my sister was in it & a buncha my friends. i didnt want to be in it because of all the time it takes up..

      • yeeah i didn’t realize it took so much time. but i hope it gets less after i become a member. i was talking to some of the members and yeah they said its pretty slack but i like it that way haha

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    PAUL BOUPHA |王志明 | อัศวิน

    001. hometown: las vegas, nevada
    002. current: new york city, new york
    003. univ. of washington: business degree 2009
    004. career: senior ad exec turned copywriter