I know it’s been a while since I’ve posted an entry, but I’ve been really busy in the past week or so. I didn’t realize that everything would start revving up so soon, so I’m getting a lightning fast reintroduction to the Real World.
Life at McKinsey is still going well and I couldn’t ask for a better first study to have been assigned to. I thought I would have been brought in slowly, but I hit the ground running from the first day and have been cramming info about the client’s business into my brain constantly. I can’t say too much, but i can say that it feels good to know that the results of this will have a huge influence on the client’s business moving forward. One other part of my first few weeks that has excited me is that I’ve been able to get really involved in MBA recruiting from Stanford GSB and possibly other schools. McK welcomes the involvement of B-school alums in recruiting at their alma maters, so I’m fully taking advantage of the opportunity to return to the GSB to represent the Southern Office. I’m also very involved in the recruiting effort for BCSS, so I will likely end up attending events at other schools as a part of that, as well. Given my own McK story of getting rejected for a summer internship and then making it through the full-time process, I hope I can inspire others to push forward in hopes of getting that full-time Consulting gig, even if it didn’t work out for them during the first-year recruiting cycle.
Outside of work, things are looking up because it looks like I’m going to get out of my janky rental situation. Before I got staffed, I spent a few days looking at places around Atlanta with a real estate agent and saw that the market here is too good not to be buying property. Well, I found a great townhouse in an area of the city that has been expanding for the past year or two, so I’m getting in at the right time. Even better, my mortgage broker was able to expedite my application and has me ready to close before the end of the month. It feel SO good to be getting out of that terrible rental and into a place of my own. For all of you who are approaching B-school graduation, I would suggest that you take the time to find a home to purchase in your new city if you plan to be there for more than a couple of years and can afford to do so. It’s worth it for the tax write-off alone and you can never count on a landlord to do you right…just think about my story and make sure to link up with a real estate agent as soon as you know where you’ll be living.
I’ve got a great story from the realm of “Wow, that’s SO random”. So, I’m in my second week being staffed with my client in the Midwest and, last night, I was the only one from my team who was in town (everyone else comes in tomorrow). I was sitting here in my hotel room with nothing to do and I’d assumed that I had another night with room service in front of the TV waiting for me. Before ordering food, I went down to the gym to get my swole on and, on my way there, I randomly ran into one of my Stanford GSB classmates, who was in town for work, as well. It must’ve been fate for us to find each other because we’re not in a city wehre you’d expect to find GSB06′ers. It turns out that he didn’t have any plans either and we were able to catch up for a few hours over dinner and I was saved from a night of room service. Wow, I swear that GSB people are everywhere…
Life at McKinsey is still going well and I couldn’t ask for a better first study to have been assigned to. I thought I would have been brought in slowly, but I hit the ground running from the first day and have been cramming info about the client’s business into my brain constantly. I can’t say too much, but i can say that it feels good to know that the results of this will have a huge influence on the client’s business moving forward. One other part of my first few weeks that has excited me is that I’ve been able to get really involved in MBA recruiting from Stanford GSB and possibly other schools. McK welcomes the involvement of B-school alums in recruiting at their alma maters, so I’m fully taking advantage of the opportunity to return to the GSB to represent the Southern Office. I’m also very involved in the recruiting effort for BCSS, so I will likely end up attending events at other schools as a part of that, as well. Given my own McK story of getting rejected for a summer internship and then making it through the full-time process, I hope I can inspire others to push forward in hopes of getting that full-time Consulting gig, even if it didn’t work out for them during the first-year recruiting cycle.
Outside of work, things are looking up because it looks like I’m going to get out of my janky rental situation. Before I got staffed, I spent a few days looking at places around Atlanta with a real estate agent and saw that the market here is too good not to be buying property. Well, I found a great townhouse in an area of the city that has been expanding for the past year or two, so I’m getting in at the right time. Even better, my mortgage broker was able to expedite my application and has me ready to close before the end of the month. It feel SO good to be getting out of that terrible rental and into a place of my own. For all of you who are approaching B-school graduation, I would suggest that you take the time to find a home to purchase in your new city if you plan to be there for more than a couple of years and can afford to do so. It’s worth it for the tax write-off alone and you can never count on a landlord to do you right…just think about my story and make sure to link up with a real estate agent as soon as you know where you’ll be living.
I’ve got a great story from the realm of “Wow, that’s SO random”. So, I’m in my second week being staffed with my client in the Midwest and, last night, I was the only one from my team who was in town (everyone else comes in tomorrow). I was sitting here in my hotel room with nothing to do and I’d assumed that I had another night with room service in front of the TV waiting for me. Before ordering food, I went down to the gym to get my swole on and, on my way there, I randomly ran into one of my Stanford GSB classmates, who was in town for work, as well. It must’ve been fate for us to find each other because we’re not in a city wehre you’d expect to find GSB06′ers. It turns out that he didn’t have any plans either and we were able to catch up for a few hours over dinner and I was saved from a night of room service. Wow, I swear that GSB people are everywhere…
