marathon

marathons.... marathons are an accomplishment to achieve. not only is the event a big thing, but the preparation to get there is intense. people train like 6-8 months in advance because it is such a big race. at the begining of their training, the runners run shorter distances but basically run everyday. as weeks and months go by, the person starts running a little more each day.. 6 miles...7 miles... 8 miles.... now they're in double digits for their daily exercise. Near the big event, the runner never actually runs the whole 26 miles but runs close to it and than saves their strength for the big day. Each day is a grueling day of exercising but the runner has to keep going to get to their prize.

core is like a marathon. there are the down times where really, all we have to do is the homework which is reading and problems due everyday. along with those are workshops which are mini presentations for the four different classes. some have more preparation than others and usually my team meets up everyday after class to work on these workshops. as the business plan comes closer, the workshops have extremely been getting harder to accomplish because they consist of more calculations, research, thinking and contacting outside people. the week before business plan is known as hell week. teams will literally spend 24/7 together cramped in study rooms doing calculations and writing the 100+ page business plan together with all the research organized by citations and appendices. people will hock up on sugar and energy and camp out at the meeting room and not shower. but.. oh no! when the business plan is to be due on that monday afternoon, we are not done. the following week... oh yes! all 4 finals!!! my question is.. when do we have a break? a break to study? a break to mentally break down??
and after the finals... what next? done right? thats what finals means right?? NOPE. then the following week, we have our final presentation of our project and business plan which is a 20 minute presentation of our company and product and all the work we did over the semester in one dinky little powerpoint presentation. then it is the end. the goal we have been striving for all semester.

in this way, core is like a marathon. with a couple of extra races added in