You've probably noticed that I skipped last week's blog. I tend to write blogs that will actually be interesting to you and I waited for some things to happen. And they did.

Last week, I got a notice that I got Summer RA position. You might think this is not so important, but I'll tell you why it is very important to me. First of all, it is a reward for my continuous efforts to be a good Resident Assistant. I got one of 8 positions that were open for this summer. Secondly, this will enable me to continue helping students on campus this summer and stay a Resident Assistant till the end of my education here at Wentworth (if we take in consideration that I've already got Senior Resident Assistant position for the next academic year, my last year at Wentworth). Getting a Summer RA position was one of my primary goals for this semester and I fulfilled it.

Now, my second primary goal is CCNA certification (I wrote about it in my previous blogs). The new thing is that I've scheduled the exam for April 11, which means I am studying really hard these days. I would really love to pass this exam in my first attempt. I’ll try to do my best and I am sure you will be the first to know what happened.

Another nice thing happened to me. Since I managed to squeeze three semesters into two in my freshman year, I was a little bit off course when it came to my educational curriculum. That issue followed me through all of the previous semesters, but I always managed to find a solution. Finally, I had 11 courses to take to graduate, and I wanted to complete them in two semesters. That meant that I needed to take 6 courses one semester and 5 courses in another. That would be achievable theoretically (20 credits each semester), but in real life here at Wentworth, it is very difficult to create a schedule that would allow you to take 6 courses in one semester. Most of the time, there would be some overlapping between the times of the lectures you could take. Well, I needed to find a solution for this. Before coming to Wentworth, I was studying Economics back in Serbia. At the time I passed 7 exams, and among them was a course Principles of Management. One of the courses that I had to take in my last two semesters at Wentworth, was Management 505 (Principles of Management). After the meeting with a Department Head of Humanities and Social Sciences, and going through my transcripts and a description of the course curriculum, I was allowed to transfer credits for this course. This decreased the number of the courses left for me to take to 10, and significantly increased my chances to graduate in May 2009 (a semester earlier that according to the curriculum).

These past two weeks were so good that I needed to celebrate a little bit. And there is no better way but spending two days in New Your City with your friends. A dear friend from Serbia came on a business trip to NYC, and two Serbian friends from Boston and I met with her there. The weather was beautiful and we walked around the city. We went to dinner to a nice Mexican restaurant Blockheads at 499 3rd Avenue (Midtown East) and had a really nice time. We didn't go clubbing this time We spent a night at a hotel and had breakfast together the next day before I left to Boston.

All in all, these were very nice two weeks for me. We’ll see what comes next week.