Spring Break
Hell Week Observations
How Hell Week is Like the End of a Bad Relationship
Julia Chen (NF), Contributing Writer
Issue date: 2/19/08 Section: Viewpoints & Humor
-You are grateful for the ever-changing Boston weather so that you have something to talk about.
- Even if things are going badly, you still feel guilty admitting that you're "talking" to others.
- You begin to wonder if your ex (employer) will take you back… maybe if you beg.
- You begin "conducting business" in a hotel room.
- You have nightmares about saying the wrong name while you're "conducting business."
- Your heart skips a beat when you see a call from an "Unknown Number."
- When they reject you, they don't even have the courtesy to say, "It's not you, it's me." They straight up say, "It's you."
You Know Hell Week is Coming to an End When…
- You have calculated the percent-by-volume consumption of the different varieties of chocolate covered pretzels at the Charles Hotel.
- When your mom asks how you're doing, you ask for a minute and start drawing a framework.
- If someone woke you up in the middle of the night, shined a flashlight in your face and yelled, "Tell me about a time you showed leadership in adverse circumstances," you wouldn't even flinch.
- You and your suit have mutually agreed to spend some time apart.
- You begin doing long division religiously for the first time since fourth grade.
- Doing cases for class doesn't seem like such a bad thing anymore.
- You know it takes 16 minutes to walk from the Charles Hotel back to Spangler, and if you hit all green lights, it takes 11 minutes to cab from the Charles Hotel to the Doubletree.
- Not only are you and the head recruiters are on a nickname basis, you begin asking about their spouses, kids and pets when you see them.
- You are shocked and dismayed when you have to start paying for your own dinners again.
- Even if things are going badly, you still feel guilty admitting that you're "talking" to others.
- You begin to wonder if your ex (employer) will take you back… maybe if you beg.
- You begin "conducting business" in a hotel room.
- You have nightmares about saying the wrong name while you're "conducting business."
- Your heart skips a beat when you see a call from an "Unknown Number."
- When they reject you, they don't even have the courtesy to say, "It's not you, it's me." They straight up say, "It's you."
You Know Hell Week is Coming to an End When…
- You have calculated the percent-by-volume consumption of the different varieties of chocolate covered pretzels at the Charles Hotel.
- When your mom asks how you're doing, you ask for a minute and start drawing a framework.
- If someone woke you up in the middle of the night, shined a flashlight in your face and yelled, "Tell me about a time you showed leadership in adverse circumstances," you wouldn't even flinch.
- You and your suit have mutually agreed to spend some time apart.
- You begin doing long division religiously for the first time since fourth grade.
- Doing cases for class doesn't seem like such a bad thing anymore.
- You know it takes 16 minutes to walk from the Charles Hotel back to Spangler, and if you hit all green lights, it takes 11 minutes to cab from the Charles Hotel to the Doubletree.
- Not only are you and the head recruiters are on a nickname basis, you begin asking about their spouses, kids and pets when you see them.
- You are shocked and dismayed when you have to start paying for your own dinners again.
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