STD Update

This week has proven to be very productive, but very busy. Next week is the beginning of "OCI" or "On-Campus Interviews" at BUSL. Basically, OCI is the convoluted process of finding a job for NEXT summer. Law firms come onto campus and meet with anywhere from 20-50 students in 20 minute segments to determine if they want to offer them a "call-back interview." A call-back interview takes place a few weeks later at the firm and lasts much longer (usually around 4 hours), and you meet with 4-5 attorneys at the firm. If you pass this interview, then you're offered a summer internship ... for next year. While this seems premature (and probably is), it's nonetheless how things have worked for years. Plus, at the end of next summer, you're usually offered a permanent job at the firm for when you graduate. So, I guess everything works a year in advance in the legal world.

Therefore, I've been dutifully researching the firms I'm interviewing with, dusting off my resume, and bolstering my interviewing skills. On top of that, I finally ordered our SAVE THE DATES!

While I'm happy with the STDs, they're not what we'd originally planned to do. Up until about 2 days ago, we had the fabulous idea of sending out Italian cookies from Modern Pastry (here in Boston on Hanover Street) in their cute little boxes with the STD information inside. Modern is our favorite pastry shop (as any real North Ender would know, Mike's is only for the tourists!), and they are relatively inexpensive. A half-pound box of assorted cookies is $4.50. There are about 15-20 cookies in a half-pound box. So, we looked at our enormous guest list and decided to only send STDs to those people we thought may actually come, which equaled about 125 boxes (only sending 1 box per household). Figuring we'd put about 3-4 cookies per box, we decided to order 25 pounds of cookies and 125 half-pound boxes (at .75/box). Since 25 lbs equals 50 half-pounds, which would all come in half pound boxes, Modern was only going to charge us for 75 boxes. After checking with the post office, it would cost about $2.70 to mail each box. All told, it would probably be about $500-550 to send out these STDs.

A terribly cute idea, right? FI and I both loved it, and, as I mentioned, it was THE idea until about Wednesday. "What happened then?" you ask. Well, I came to my senses. There are a couple of major issues with this idea:

1. With all of my interviews next week, I don't really have time to make the cute little inserts for the boxes with all of our STD information, including travel and accommodation information.

2. It's outrageously expensive. And, I can think of about 5 other ways I'd rather spend that money.

So, yesterday, I went back to my very first, and cost effective, idea -- and no, it's not magnets. What is it? Well, you'll just have to wait a week to find out!