All I wanted was a super stretchy laptop cover...

So here I am, 11:00 PM...blogging for Kelley. How does one become a Kelley blogger - the answer is in the super stretchy laptop cover. Here's how it all happened...

I was in a professor's office for some reason that I can't remember when I looked across the room and saw it - the super stretchy laptop cover proudly displaying the Kelley logo...the same super stretchy laptop cover that I saw in a marketing staff members' office in Bloomington during a campus visit. I tried to get one when I was in Bloomington, but couldn't (a conversation that is probably better to not re-visit in this forum, but one that ended with my comment of "you realize we are a business  school, right?"). After I was denied in Bloomington, it became a personal mission to obtain one for no other reason than the thrill of victory (obtaining Kelley gear is one of the great quests of a Kelley student), and there it was...within reach.

I'm not going to lie, I thought about grabbing it and running out of the third floor offices, down the staircase, and escaping through the congestion of the second floor - I think I could have made it. But then, within a nanosecond, I realized that I would have to return to the third floor someday; being "wanted" on the third floor was probably not a position that I wanted to be in.  So instead, I asked "where did you get that?" That was the moment that I realized the super stretchy laptop covers were being held for ransom...I could have one, but like most things in life, it comes with a price. Now truth be told, it's not that great of a price - I can have my super stretchy laptop cover in return for spending a few hours a week blogging about life as a Kelley student in Indy.

So here I am, logging on for the first time to the Kelley blog (within that 48 hour window). I'm a little freaked out to find that I am now a "category," but even more freaked out to find that the postings from other students include trips to London, France and some other exotic things - my life is just not that exotic, the farthest trip that I have taken in the last year has been from the parking lot on North and Blackford to the business building.  So, I can't promise the most exciting posts in the world, but they will be real - the good, bad and the ugly about being a Kelley Student on the campus of IUPUI.