Yessssssss!

After a whole weekend and 3 grueling days of waiting, during which I was utterly incapable of doing anything productive, my quest for internships is finally over!!! Because today, the company with whom I had 2 phone interviews late last week, gave me an offer!!!!

What's more? My internship will be in SUNNY CALIFORNIA--the place I've wanted to be ever since I realized I can no longer tolerate the coldness from the east coast (which was LONG time ago) :D

This is the BEST thing that can happen to me right now! After having a bijillion interviews and no offers, I was pretty bummed out. I basically gave up and never wanted to find another job again! It was pretty depressing. I was pretty depressed. I thought I was going to have to stay in Ithaca again and work for the summer, which is NOT ideal (to put it nicely). Then, after getting extremely upset one night over it, I decided to re-vamp my resume and send it out to as many companies as I can on CornellTrak (not interviewTrak since practically all companies coming to campus were done by then).

Interestingly enough, I didn't actually submit a resume. They contacted me. I'm assuming they found my resume since I had just re-uploaded it...

And the rest, well, is history... :-)

Have I thought about what I would do if I didn't get the offer? Yes, I tried to, but couldn't really. It wasn't because I was so sure I was going to get the offer. Rather, just the prospect of working in California is so exciting to me, that I couldn't really think about anything else. I just kept on imagining what would happen if I did get it. For example, I already started looking at Craig's List for apartments/sublets yesterday, before they gave me the offer. I already started to look up how far I'd be from Palo Alto, San Jose, San Francisco, Los Angeles...etc. I already started thinking about who I could possibly contact while I'm there.

Yea, this was my only thread of hope. If I didn't get this, I don't know what I'd do. I'd probably cry my eyes out and then I'd die.

But thankfully, that wasn't the case. :)

As I noted earlier, I'm TOTALLY incapable of being productive while I'm waiting for a reply from someone. So...needless to say, I procrastinated way more than I should. I know that if my grades for this semester come out poorly, I'll be screwed. And yet, I can't bring myself to care about that when I'm waiting. I just can't. I tried, but failed. For example, I have a 7-page paper due for my pop culture class this Friday, and if it weren't for the fact that I was with Evan and he constantly told me to write, I would not even have started (I have 3 not-so-good-in-my-opinion pages so far).

What exactly do I do when I procrastinate?

• Forever21.com - This became a habit this semester when I realized that Forever21 actually updates their inventory everyday. So I'd always check back every couple of hours to see what new dresses/shirts/skirts they've added. I've gone as far as purchasing a couple of things because 1. I can't resist the urge to buy clothes and 2. ...um..there is no 2. I'll say this though...I am proud of myself for not buying ANY clothes for a month now. (My bill for May looks very good right now :)
• Facebook.com - Yes I know everyone does this. But I feel I'm a lot worse. I probably check this site no less than 10 times daily. I don't stay on the site for long usually(keyword: usually), but I always sign in just to see if anyone updated their profiles/added pictures/etc.
• Google Homepage - I tend to stare at this a lot...looking at all the contents that's on my page (Dilbert, DailyPuppy, Bookmarks, Gmail, Digg (speaking of which, check this out), Quote of the Day, News)
• threadless.com - cool t-shirts
  
• nordstrom.com/macys.com/oldnavy.com/gap.com/alloy.com/delias.com - I tend to visit some to all of these sites when the procrastination gets really bad. I only do this when I can't make myself do ANY work at all. :(

People I'd like to thank for helping me through this trying process:

• Evan - Thanks for believing in me, for putting up with me when I got upset about this and supporting me all the way, for practicing interview questions with me, and many other things.
• Alex - Thanks for telling me to never give up when I felt like I've hit rock bottom, for listening to me, for encouraging me, for giving me all those resume writing and interviewing tips.
• Joel - Thanks for giving me the book about job searching, for trying to find internships for me.
• Mom - Thanks for supporting me, for being there for me, for letting me know that it's ok if I don't find an internship this summer.

:)