Months long stretch

'Tis been a good day. Sucks that the days of skipping classes and putting things off are coming to an end. Papers are stacking up and the amount of things to be completed before I leave for Turkey are infinite.

Had a great conversation with Carly today. Started off talking about Learning Networks and how the U.S. can and will go about engaging in them. My personal interests lie in entrepreneurship, HIV/AIDS, and energy. Any advice on how to find out more about the energy industry? Reading material maybe?

We talked in depth about AIESEC's indentity globally and our identity here in the U.S. Truth is, I believe, AIESEC in the United States and AIESEC globally are a nat's eyeleash away from being the exact same thing and offering the same experiences to stakeholders. However, we operate with different semantics and with different mission statements. Wierd, right? I'm really looking forward to the conversation around our identity and how we will adapt.

AIESEC is a boot camp for global leadership. That should be our mission statement. Haha. Guess my hawkish military days never went away.

Finally we touched on my future in AIESEC and the potential for me to join the team when I graduate in December. Seems like my actions have led a few people to believe my life focus is not AIESEC anymore. I see where they're coming from, and those actions are by choice...however it was all for a reason. Think it's time to go full throttle back into the national planning, design, subgroup, mission guru that I always strived to be.

No matter how much I give to AIESEC, I will never give the amount it deserves.