This is actually my third summer on campus. My first summer after college I went home for just a month before I began my research program, and last summer I didn't go home at all before I started working at Mass General. This is however my first summer with summer classes. Since classes started May 5th, today was the first day that I didn't have a writing assignment due. Granted, some of them have been drafts, but something is due basically every day in that class. Today is the 10th day of classes and that means the semester is already a third of the way over. Normally a third of the way through the class is a little over a month, but in summer it's just a day more than two weeks.
Overall classes are going pretty well, thought the faster pace is something to adjust to. The weather is finally nice again today too, after raining for a few days. Unfortunately in the past week, both the Celtics and the Bruins lost in game 7 of playoff series, so there's no more chance of having all the craziness of a championship this summer. We'll have to wait until fall.

BESS is back in full planning mode for the upcoming year. We've set dates and booked rooms for a lot of our major programs and we're currently strategizing and developing all of the supporting materials to recruit new members in the fall. Next week we're going to plan out our fund raising strategy and goals for the year and develop the materials we use to solicit for donations. It's been tougher to get donations recently as companies are pressed for funds, so we have to get our requests out early to be included in their budgeting process since managers are less likely to have large budgets for programs that come up later in the fiscal year.

Now I'm off to do a little bit more homework before my afternoon class.

As always, feel free to ask questions!