I've been in Atlanta for TWO WHOLE WEEKS. I love it here. At some point, I'm going to get to know the city. So far, I've seen the Buckhead bars, the Sweetwater Brewery, and Piedmont Park for the Atlanta International Jazz Festival. There is so much left to do, I'm hoping we find a chance to get it all done and don't just end up drinking every time we have a free moment. Right now we're kind of like a bunch of borderline alcoholics.
By we, I mean my classmates. There are 15 of us in our class. We spend 9 hours a day together in class at the AT&T corporate campus. It sometimes feels like a weird sort of social experiment. Like someone said, "What would happen if you put 15 people who ran their respective campuses in a competition to be the best?". It's crazy. Everyone wants to be heard, raise their hand first, make the most profound statements, and have the power to direct the rest of the group.
Breaking it down by the numbers:
4 girls, 11 boys
5 people who have sold phones before, 3 of whom worked for AT&T and 2 who managed stores for other companies
1 Asian, 3 Hispanic, 4 white, 7 black
4 Midwesterners, 9 Southerners, 2 West Coast people
3 22-year olds, 4 23-year olds, 2 24-year olds, 1 25-year old, 1 27-year old, 1 29-year-old, 2 32-year olds, and 1 34-year old
3 introverts, 11 extroverts
1 married man, 1 engaged man, 1 man with a girlfriend, 12 single people
So that gives you a snapshot of our little class. It isn't anyone who goes out every chance they get. There are about 8 of us that consistently go out together. It's a fun time, but with such strong personalities and tendency towards leadership with every single person, combined with such vastly different people and backgrounds... things might start to get uncomfortable really fast. I'm holding my breath and waiting for the tension to start building up to where everything starts crashing down. What's nice is that even when that happens (and it will; we spend too much time together for it not to) we will still be spending time together, and so we'll be forced to fix things that we may have just decided weren't worth the effort otherwise.
I love living the 'Lanta life.
