But, it happened and it certainly seems 30-before-30-worthy so it's getting a blog.
It really sprung out of laziness. Back in the fall, a student group at Taylor's school contacted the Partners Club (that's the group I'm in for wives/girlfriends/fiancées and I guess their male equivalents if men went off to business school with their ladies) and asked if we would like to put together a skit or a short video to be included in their annual "Follies" sketch comedy show. It sounded like a fun thing to do, but we had some trouble garnering interested parties to write, act in, direct, shoot and edit said sketch, so alas we floundered.
One day, probably while trolling the Internet in a YouTube or Wikipedia black hole, I came across this site: whatshouldwecallme.tumblr.com and I realized that you could totally make an entire blog of these "animated gifs" just about living with a business school student. I realized this could also be a really funny way to get something together for that Follies show without too much effort. So, I did a little googling and realized that it is not at all difficult to rip these gifs from other sites and put the, up on a blog. I put together 5-6 of them and sent the, over to the organizers of Follies. They seemed entertained, but not smitten and responded that they are already doing something similar so thanks, but no thanks.
It seemed a shame to waste good idea, and I had lots more ideas I wanted to post, so I made a few more and posted the link on our Partners Club Facebook page just for fun. Everyone loved it, and some other girls even started sending me their own ideas of things I could put on the blog. They also started posting and sharing it all over their own Facebook pages! Before I knew someone told me that her boyfriend sent her the link to the page and didn't even realize it was started by someone at Michigan! It was spreading, and fast.
Within 3 days, the site got 10,000 page views. I started getting e-mails from Partners at other schools. Here's some of what they said:
- Your Blog is hysterical and awesome. You just summed up my husband's first semester.
- I just wanted to let you know the girls at Wharton love your blog! We've been laughing all day. :) Awesome idea!
- Girl, you get me.
- My girlfriends and I are Tuck Partners at Dartmouth, and we happened upon your AMAZING blog yesterday. Safe to say we are all OBSESSED
- SERIOUSLY an amazing piece of work.
- Your blog made my day!
- Brilliant- just brilliant.
- Thanks for starting this. You are a Tuck Partner Hero!
So far, by my count, I have heard from partners at:
Booth (University of Chicago)
Columbia
Tuck (Dartmouth)
Hass (UC Berkeley)
Stanford
Anderson (UCLA)
Wharton (University of Pennsylvania)
Right now, the site has 75,000 page views and counting! And I'm not out of ideas!
Here's a sample. To see more, head on over to www.livingwithabusinessschoolstudent.blogspot.com!
When my husband asks me to review his cover letters, I'm like:
It's been so fun to connect with partners all over the country and I can't wait to see where the blog goes! Check "Going Viral" of my bucket list, please!
