City life

There is this undiscussed but inevitable loneliness about moving to a new place: you don't know anyone well enough to have any real human contact. Does that sound too sad? All things considered, I love it here: Boston is vibrant and friendly and already very comfortable, but I really miss hugs and snuggles and pats on the back. In time, I suppose.

Less sentimentally, I have been really enjoying my time at Education Pioneers! They have thrown me headfirst into a project of compiling a database of people who could be strong candidates for an Education Pioneers fellowship program, based on the resume book of the Consortium conference for MBA candidates. Because EP is focused on leadership in education, they recruit heavily from business, policy and law programs. For this project, I have to synthesize each candidate's work experience, evaluate how it could be relevant to the education sector, identify a community activity and input that in a spreadsheet. There are 500+ of these resumes; I've already read 200. Ask me to identify the name of the business school at any top-10 MBA program. I challenge you to stump me.

Additionally, I'm being trained on a bunch of technology and software I haven't used before. I really admire how well EP integrates new technology into their business. I've taken on SalesForce, Talent Bridge, Outlook (I'm a Mac user so this was new), the staff intranet, a bit of Key Survey and learned some new Excel functions. I consider myself decently computer-savvy but I have nothing on the EP team. It's impressive and I feel smarter already.

In short: I really like Cambridge, I really like EP, and I am exhausted from having a big girl job.