Every New Beginning Comes From Some Other Beginning's End

The events described bellow took place during the last week of Junior Bootcamp - week of August 3

And so begins the final stretch of four weeks known as Junior Bootcamp. With only five days left, a pot of mixed feelings started to brew among many of the new IMLP’s:

• Relieved, to be done with the month-long Junior Bootcamp session and survived
• Sadness, for not knowing when would be the next time we’ll see our newly – yet strongly – forged friendships
• Excited, to finally start our first rotation and put to the test all what we have learned at bootcamp
• Stressed, knowing that in just a few days we will have to present our final deliverables to upper-level GE managers

As the last week marches on, every group works furiously to complete their code as much as they can, while others are focused on updating the financials from the previous presentation or working on putting together the actual powerpoint. With so much that needs to be done…we only had four days to complete all of this! (since Friday was the final presentation and ‘graduation’ ceremony).

But even in the mist of all this chaos, our spirits and energy still flew high and we (somehow…) still found time fraternize, not only withour closer group members, but with the IMLP class as a whole. Sometimes bragging about how far along we were, others to vent about team members, asking for help overcoming an encountered obstacle or just taking nice nocturnal walk down to Rosy's – it seemed like no matter how crazy things got we were always there to keep each other going.

After four tense and stress-filled days, it was time to show off what we had been working on for the past two weeks. After each group presented their project to upper-level GE Managers followed by a peer feedback session… WE WERE (unofficially) DONE! Next step… CELEBRA..oh wait… what about packing? With all the pressure from the last week… many of us forgot when were leaving. For many this happened to be at wee hours of the morning the next day (Saturday), but for others, leaving was just a few hours away. So once again some IMLP’s were in a race against time… this time trying not to miss their flights.

Once we obtained our “I survived Junior Bootcamp” certificates, the first wave of us started to trickle out off to the airport while the rest of us finished packing and others, like my self, took a well deserved nap :-)

As the night grew on, the same pot of mixed emotions that were stressed up at the beginning of bootcamp started to resurface. Once again we were about to wonder into the unknown that is our first rotation – not knowing exactly what to expect - again, we have to say goodbye to friends, without knowing how soon we will see them again; but above all anxiously running toward a new and exciting phase in our lives.

  “I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”

- Maya Angelou

Good luck to everyone from the IMLP Junior Bootcamp class of 2009 with your first rotation and see you all 12 months from now at Senior Bootcamp!

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