What’s up, y’all. I just had McKinsey ATL’s sell weekend this past weekend and I loved kickin’ it with those people. They did it up SO BIG for us and got me really excited about starting work there next Fall. That’s right…I’m signed, sealed, and delivered. I gave them my accepted offer letter on Friday morning during the presentations session and it’s official: your boy will be working at McKinsey. Unfortunately, I have to turn down two really good offers, but, in the end, I decided that McKinsey was the best place for me to start out my career given what I want to learn in the first few years after B-School. Also, McK is the company that I came to business school to get into, so it just felt right to accept their offer. Stuff is finally coming together for me and it feels amazing.

Incidentally, I finally got the “HELL NAW” from BCG this past Thursday afternoon, but it didn’t even phase me. It was sort of like when I found out that I’d gotten into Stanford and then received word later that same day that HBS wasn’t checkin’ for The Kid. I wish I could give you the entire story of how tough this situation with BCG was, but I don’t want to totally smear BCG (I’m finally learning to keep some of my stories to myself). What I will say is that they told me on November 16 after I interviewed that I’d find out my fate within 2 to 7 days…I didn’t get the rejection call until Dec 1 (15 days later)…You’ve got to love when companies follow through, huh?

Enough about the job stuff…let’s talk about school. This is the last week of classes for the Fall quarter and it feels like I’ve got a ton to do. I’ve already turned in the final paper for one of my classes, but I’ve still got 4 more final papers to knock out. One of them (for my Formations of New ventures class) should be fun because it’s a 5-pager about my ideal entrepreneurial career and the only problem I should have with that is keeping it concise enough to fit into 5 pages. Another one is a 10-pager about my views on leadership and whether I want to be a leader in the future, which should be another one that I struggle to keep within the page limits. Sometime this week, I’ve got to find time to meet with my Corporate Finance study group to work on our take-home final, which I’m hoping we can hit a homerun with because I love that class and want to come out with a good grade. The final assignment is the one I’m worried about. It’s a 20 page paper for my History of African-American Education class and I haven’t started anything on it, not the outline, the research, or even thinking about what I want to write. It’s due next Monday, but I’m going to be flying back to VA this weekend, so I’ve got to get that joint done this week before I go. It’s going to be a LONG WEEK with that one.