Ahhhhh, I’m back in NYC from my last trip out to Columbus, OH and it feels good to know that I’m not going to have to catch that Monday 7:40am flight anymore. I didn’t mind the traveling itself, but it wasn’t exactly fun to spend most days of the past 7 weeks in The-Middle-of-Nowhere, Ohio with nothing to do after long days at work. As the senior manager on my project has said many times, “that’s the life of a consultant.” Although it was a surprise to not spend as much time in NYC as I expected, it has been valuable to see what it’s really going to be like on the road and regularly away from home after graduation. I can see myself working in Consulting for several years after school because it’ll be good to see places like the middle of Ohio that I’d have no reason to check out on my own.
Tomorrow (Friday) is the due date for my team’s final deck, so this past week was all about working and working and working until the late hours of the night. Five members of the project team are staying on to work on the follow on Product management and Go-to-market stages, but the strategy portion is clsing out. Three straight 11:30pm-midnight nights followed by an evening in which my flight back here was delayed by 2.5 hours has me about ready to pass out. At times during those late nights, i was wondering why we were having to work so late, but, now that we’re right at the end, i see that every minute of that time was needed. I came into the week thinking that my parts of the deck were almost finished, but there were a million and one 11th hour changes that had me buggin’ out. I’ve learned more out of the past 2 months on this project than I did in the last 1-2 years that I was at my last pre-MBA employer…a short strategy consulting project definitely trumps several years of plugging away at the same Java code in my eyes. My one regret about this project is that I didn’t get a chance to do anything quant-related. I was hoping to be able to crunch some numbers this summer, but my role on the team didn’t require any of that. I’ve still got two weeks left, but my next assignment won’t have any number crunching (see next paragraph) and I have no clue of what I’ll be doing after that.
Earlier this week, it looked like I was going to be sent down to ATl to work on a project for the last two weeks of my internship, but that got changed at the last minute and now I’m going to get to stay in NYC for the next week. I will be working directly with the partner in charge of the Communication and High Tech group’s East region on putting together a thought leadership presentation about M&A in the industry. At first, I thought it would be a waste to work on one or two week-long joints at the end of the internship, but I’ve changed my opinion on that point. It’ll be cool to get additional work experiences this summer and learn something new before heading back to school. In addition to getting a little M&A know-how from this short project, a large benefit of the assignment is that I’ll be working with the guy who will help determine whether I get an offer at the end of the summer. I probably already have a good shot at getting one, but you never know…I just need to make sure I don’t slip up and ruin my chances this late in the game.
Unfortunately, I won’t be able to act a fool in NYC this weekend because I’ve got to head down to VA tomorrow night to visit one of my sisters in the hospital. She and her husband are expecting their first child in October and she was admitted to the hospital last week because her baby was trying to come out early. She’s been on bedrest ever since and the doctors were medicating her to stop her contractions, but they took her off the medicine a couple of days ago, so she’ll likely be giving birth soon. With all that she’s gone through, i thought I should go down and offer some support. I’ve known that this baby was coming for all these months, but I’m still getting used to having one of my younger sisters on the verge of motherhood. I feel so daggone old that i can’t even put it into words..whew!
Before I end this entry, I have to send some shout outs:
- a “Nice working with you and good luck” shout out to my project team members Andy, Chris, Rohit, Brendan, Michael, Dave, Keith, and Mike. It was good working with y’all, fellas *dap*
- a “Stay safe and enjoy your trip” shout out goes to my girl “Yoda” who is spending her month before starting the MBA1 year at Stanford in the Middle east traveling and visiting her fam. Normally, summer travel present no need to worry, but folks in the middle east are just plain wildin’ out, so you never know what can happen out there. As i told her a couple of days ago, she’d better not get blown up over there because the fellas of the GSB need her to make it to school
- I’d like to send a HUGE “thank you” shoutout to Bobby Brown and Whitney Houston for keeping me so entertained this summer. If you haven’t checked out Bobby Brown’s reality show on Bravo, you need to get on that quickly. I knew that Bobby was a knucklehead from everything I’d seen on the news, but this show just puts up on a legendary level. And, Whitney…GOOD LAWD!!!! I don’t know what she’s let happen to herself, but she’s looking crackish, acting cranky, and has me ROLLIN’ every week. The show is so bad that it’s good and it makes me feel SO normal 
Tomorrow (Friday) is the due date for my team’s final deck, so this past week was all about working and working and working until the late hours of the night. Five members of the project team are staying on to work on the follow on Product management and Go-to-market stages, but the strategy portion is clsing out. Three straight 11:30pm-midnight nights followed by an evening in which my flight back here was delayed by 2.5 hours has me about ready to pass out. At times during those late nights, i was wondering why we were having to work so late, but, now that we’re right at the end, i see that every minute of that time was needed. I came into the week thinking that my parts of the deck were almost finished, but there were a million and one 11th hour changes that had me buggin’ out. I’ve learned more out of the past 2 months on this project than I did in the last 1-2 years that I was at my last pre-MBA employer…a short strategy consulting project definitely trumps several years of plugging away at the same Java code in my eyes. My one regret about this project is that I didn’t get a chance to do anything quant-related. I was hoping to be able to crunch some numbers this summer, but my role on the team didn’t require any of that. I’ve still got two weeks left, but my next assignment won’t have any number crunching (see next paragraph) and I have no clue of what I’ll be doing after that.
Earlier this week, it looked like I was going to be sent down to ATl to work on a project for the last two weeks of my internship, but that got changed at the last minute and now I’m going to get to stay in NYC for the next week. I will be working directly with the partner in charge of the Communication and High Tech group’s East region on putting together a thought leadership presentation about M&A in the industry. At first, I thought it would be a waste to work on one or two week-long joints at the end of the internship, but I’ve changed my opinion on that point. It’ll be cool to get additional work experiences this summer and learn something new before heading back to school. In addition to getting a little M&A know-how from this short project, a large benefit of the assignment is that I’ll be working with the guy who will help determine whether I get an offer at the end of the summer. I probably already have a good shot at getting one, but you never know…I just need to make sure I don’t slip up and ruin my chances this late in the game.
Unfortunately, I won’t be able to act a fool in NYC this weekend because I’ve got to head down to VA tomorrow night to visit one of my sisters in the hospital. She and her husband are expecting their first child in October and she was admitted to the hospital last week because her baby was trying to come out early. She’s been on bedrest ever since and the doctors were medicating her to stop her contractions, but they took her off the medicine a couple of days ago, so she’ll likely be giving birth soon. With all that she’s gone through, i thought I should go down and offer some support. I’ve known that this baby was coming for all these months, but I’m still getting used to having one of my younger sisters on the verge of motherhood. I feel so daggone old that i can’t even put it into words..whew!
Before I end this entry, I have to send some shout outs:
- a “Nice working with you and good luck” shout out to my project team members Andy, Chris, Rohit, Brendan, Michael, Dave, Keith, and Mike. It was good working with y’all, fellas *dap*
- a “Stay safe and enjoy your trip” shout out goes to my girl “Yoda” who is spending her month before starting the MBA1 year at Stanford in the Middle east traveling and visiting her fam. Normally, summer travel present no need to worry, but folks in the middle east are just plain wildin’ out, so you never know what can happen out there. As i told her a couple of days ago, she’d better not get blown up over there because the fellas of the GSB need her to make it to school
- I’d like to send a HUGE “thank you” shoutout to Bobby Brown and Whitney Houston for keeping me so entertained this summer. If you haven’t checked out Bobby Brown’s reality show on Bravo, you need to get on that quickly. I knew that Bobby was a knucklehead from everything I’d seen on the news, but this show just puts up on a legendary level. And, Whitney…GOOD LAWD!!!! I don’t know what she’s let happen to herself, but she’s looking crackish, acting cranky, and has me ROLLIN’ every week. The show is so bad that it’s good and it makes me feel SO normal
