Big Man In A Small City July 12, 2009
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Typical conversation with my family and friends when I talk about working in Target.
Friends/Family: What you doing this summer? Any internships?
Me: Yes, I’m working for Target!
Friends/Family: Ugh, like in a store? Are you stacking boxes or something?
Me: No, I’m working for Target Corporate Headquarters in Merchandise Planning as a Business Analyst.
Friends/Family: Oh that sounds really cool, so where is their headquarters?
Me: Minneapolis, Minnesota
Friends/Family: Uhhhhhhhhhhhhh, who goes to Minneapolis? Have fun being in the middle of nowhere. That’s so weird, why do you want to work in Minneapolis?
Me: I don’t really care where I live, it seems like a cool job and I heard Minneapolis has alot of young professionals
Friends/Family: Have fun with that you are going to get bored in like two days. You can go to the Mall of America and a Twins/Vikings game and that’s about all Minneapolis can offer.
Reviewing over these conversations makes me think I have really terrible friends that are some haters because if I’m not working in New York City I’m pegged for failure. It’s been about four weeks since the start of my internship and I just wanted to prove my friends wrong by going over some of the social activities I can do while in Minnesota that keeps me pretty occupied.
The first picture is a picture of a neighborhood known as Dinkytown (I know terrible name doesn’t exactly attract celebrities) in the front with the Kitty Cat Klub which is the best name for a bar I have ever heard. It has alot of bars for happy hour fun, and every Friday/Saturday one of the local restaurants host a salsa night where I am a frequent visitor where they play alot of salsa and raggaeton.
Next of me at the Taste of Minnesota, a concert series which had headliners such as Judas Priest and Bret Michaels. I was enjoying a footlong corn dog. Good Eats!
This is a picture of Lake Calhoun. Weird fact about Minnesota people when they call the lake the beach, which to a person from California makes no apparent sense because I associate beaches with the ocean which Minnesota isn’t located next to the beach last time I checked. I guess they don’t know better.
I could go on and on…..maybe but I was just trying to prove a point that Minnesota has more to offer than meets the eye you just have to dive a little deeper than say L.A. or New York. I’m still enjoying my time here.
Glad you’re enjoying MN! The Twin Cities area is one of my favorite metropolitan areas in the country, but you’re right — there are a lot of people at Cornell and in the northeast who don’t know what they’re missing.
Alex, if you have a car and are adventurous, start driving around north of Minneapolis. There is some truly beautiful country up there and summer is the right time to be in Minnesota!
Hey, I grew up in Minnesota and loved it! The only thing that sucked was the cold.. unless you of course liked the snow!
There’s a lot to do there, and as far as bars go, the best name I liked was a place in Dinkytown called “The Library.” .. think about all those college kids who weren’t lying to their parents when they said they were going to The Library.. oh well, it’s a great place to live and the people are down to earth!
Don’t forget to take advantage of all the lakes and rivers there.. lots of water-sports and fishing. Don’t knock it until you try it – Even ice fishing can be fun if you do it right!
Have fun while you’re there. I know I miss it!