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Merry Christmas, everyone. I hope everyone spent today enjoying the holiday with your loved ones. I wasn’t planning on posting an entry today, but got an email from a couple of people saying that this blog had been mentioned in a thread on the BusinessWeek Forums. The thread was discussing which b-schools are best for people trying to get into Consulting and, given my background, I had a little insight on the issue. As usual, I figured that some readers might get something out of that response, so here’s an excerpt from it…

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Hello all. I’d like to start this entry off by hoping that all is well for you during the holidays. I’ll bet that most of you are relaxing and enjoying the much-needed 3-day weekend and I’m right along with you on that one. I’m back in VA at my mom’s house enjoying the quiet and scenery…and the fact that I don’t have to worry about hopping on a plane tomorrow morning.

As 2006 comes to a close, I’m happy to report that I reached the end of my first McKinsey study on Friday and it was a heck of a… Read the rest

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Hey there, faithful readers. It just hit me that I haven’t written anything up here since Thanksgiving, so I wanted to give a quick update. All is still going well on Study #1 here in the Midwest, but, good lawd, it is SO COLD here!!! As many of you in the US saw on the news over the weekend, there was a huge wave of cold weather that swept through the middle of the country and I boarded my plane in ATL on Monday dreading having to get off of it. When my plane landed, the cold hit me like… Read the rest

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