IBC

IBC (Integrated Business Core) is the name of my 12 credit class (or classes) that I am taking this semester. What does that mean? It means that I get to spend my entire semester on campus all day long focusing on just this class. I spend 3-4 hours a day with my team, read 30-70 pages of cases every single day, start up a business and run it on campus (this means approving our businesses through the school, getting a loan for our business, actually making profits, etc), and try to work 2 jobs on the side, all while making sure I don't fail so I never have to do this again!
Now really, Lyle's life is much more difficult. He is still trying to work 40 hours a week and do this class with me. I am working just over 20 hours a week. And our teachers were "sweet" enough to put us on different teams. (We are in the same company, but our companies are broken down further into teams and we are in separate teams.)We will be lucky if we survive.
We have only been in school for about two weeks now and already I am counting down the days until this semester is done. This past week we were "privileged" to go to the Badger Creek area and camp. You are probably thinking, "But wait, this is Idaho in the winter time?" Yes, yes it is. I had to spend 3 days 2 nights in the snow.  Snow that is up to my waist and nearly impossible to walk through. It was basically the most miserable experience of my life. The only thing good about it was.......nope, can't think of anything. My boots were too big, my 4 layers of clothing were hard to move in, and when I sank in the snow down to my waist I had to have help up. I am sore all over and I still can't believe I had to do it.

This class is only getting harder. I have so much to accomplish in the next few weeks that I really don't know how I am going to finish everything. Our business has to be up and running two Mondays from now and we are not even sure if we will have our business idea approved or if we will get the loan that we need in order to buy supplies and get our booth up and started. We have to write up a business plan by this next Friday that we will present to a loan committee. They will decide how much money we have to start with and we just have to make due with whatever we get. I am nervous and this class is giving me stress zits......UGH! Yes this is a good experience, and yes it may help me figure out how to start a business one day. But for the time being, those thoughts only depress me. I just have to remember that I only have 2 semesters and 1 internship left and if things go the way I would like them to, I should be done and out of here April of next year..........................