Dang, it’s getting harder and harder to find time to write entries in the past couple of weeks. The group meetings and assignments are taking up a bunch of time and I’ve also been having meetings with some of the GSB clubs and committees to go over their proposed budgets for next year. Being a Senator in our Student Association is cool and I’m glad that my classmates believed in me enough to elect me, but it takes up a ton of time. I guess this comes along with the territory of trying to be in a position where I can affect some positive change. I hope I can look back and say that I did some good when my term ends in December because I’d feel like I loaded myself up with extra responsibilities without getting what I really wanted out of the experience.

Here’s a much overdo assessment of the Round 2 Admit Weekend…it went perfectly and was a great success. Last time around, i thought it was decent, but, to be honest, I thought it there was a whole lot of kickin’ it going on and not enough emphasis on the books, which is far from the case of how it really is. This time around, we put a lot of effort into emphasizing that the GSB was a fun place to be but an even better place to learn about business for two years and I think it was a complete success. I talked to so many admits who fell in love with this place over the course of the weekend that I couldn’t help but smile as a result. I was getting pretty worn down by all of the rigors of this quarter and seeing the excitement on the faces of the admitted applicants re-energized me. Between all the folks that I met from the two Admit Weekends, I’m really looking for ward for the Class of 2007 to arrive in the Fall. Something tells me that those kids are going to be great folks to get to know during my last year here.

Last night, I went to a diversity reception and dinner sponsored by Bain & Company in SF with three of my classmates and had a blast. As you guys know, I went to a diversity event that bain had in NYC last summer and, although it didn’t work out during summer internship recruiting, I’ve still got them on my radar for fulltime possibilities. The event started out with one of their partners giving a presentation about the company that I’d seen a couple of times before. Following the reception, we were taken to a restaurant down the street from their office where current Bain employees answered our questions. Things started off slowly, but, once the wine started flowing, the real Marquis started pushing the professional Marquis aside and things got really fun. I was sitting at a table with a Manager and a Recruiter and both of them were real-deal cool cats. I started asking them real questions about the company that went deeper than the usual “so, how do you like working here?” ones and they were forthcoming with all information. even better, they were wildin’ out a little like me and had me feeling like Bain’s people were a mixture of being truly on point and truly fun. I have a feeling that I’ll interview with them in the Fall just to see what happens.

Earlier today, I attended a brown bag lunch (BBL) where a bunch of professors made presentations about the classes that they were teaching that we could allocated in the Super Round. It would be difficult for me to give a full description of what the Super Round is, so I”ll try to give a quick one. The root of it lies in the fact that there are several courses here that are of high interest for a lot of people and often fill up very quickly. With the way that we are ranked for course preference, there is a chance that one could miss out on a class that they feel is really important for their future career. So, in response to this issue, the GSB offers a Super Round where we can pick several courses for next year that we are REALLY interested in taking and those classes are allocated to people based on their preferences and the availability of the classes on each person’s list. with the way that it is set up, everyone gets a chance to take 2 of their classes that traditionally have high-demand. For this year, Academic Operations is introducing a Zero Round where students can trade in their two Super Round picks for a single Zero Round class that they have a greater chance of getting for sure. This whole process is pretty complicated and I hope I can keep it all straight when it comes time to pick my Super Round joints at the end of next week. I left the BBL today with the realization that my MBA journey is almost halfway over and knowing that there are still a whole lot of classes that I want to take before I leave. Sometimes, I wish that Bschool was three years long so I’d have a chance to get in all of the courses in as possible. Two years is such a short time to take classes and, with the Ed School classes that I’ve got to fit in over the next three quarters, I’m wondering if I’ll end up missing out on some really great courses before I graduate.

Before I go, I’ve got to send a shout out of my girl Maya who got me the major hookup on a place to stay in NYC this summer. She’s a first year MBA at Columbia and she set me up to rent a room in her uncle’s apartment at a good monthly rent, so I’m out of the game on looking for a pad. Plus, I met her uncle over the summer and he was a really cool cat, so this’ll work out well. Thank goodness that I’ve got that one less thing to worry about.