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A great man has passed

When I sat down at my computer to type this entry, I intended to talk about the first week of Spring classes, but something else more important should be mentioned first. I had my TV on as I was at my computer and I heard the news that the Pope had passed away. The CBS news telecast said that he was the last great figure from the 20th century to pass away and that’s when the magnitude of this hit me. That man was in his position for 26 years (I’m only 27) and he was loved by everyone that… Read the rest

Networking is the greatest thing since sliced bread!

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I’ve always been a fan of networking, but I had no idea that using a little networking could create such good results. I’ve gotten some great internship leads over the past few days as a result of reaching out to the folks in my circle of contacts.

First, my girl maya (1st year student at Columbia Business School) passed along an email from one of her alums saying that Booz-Allen’s ATL office was looking for some candidates to fill intern spots in their office. This was about a month ago and I sent my resume to her, but I dind’t… Read the rest

Ding, ding, dinged again…

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I just got the call from URS Corporation that they’d decided to go with another candidate for the summer. I’m a little bummed out about it, but not too badly because I realize that there is nothing more I could have done to secure my position. The lady who called me told me that I had done well on both of my interviews and that I actually came out as being their second pick, but the guy they ended up taking had more relevant experience to the work that they had planned for their intern this summer. When she dropped… Read the rest

Happy Easter

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I know that not everyone reading this blog is a Christian, but I am and I would be remiss if I didn’t devote a post to saying how thankful I am for Jesus giving his life for all of our sins (My mom is a preacher, so I guess it comes with the territory). Today is a big day and it has me reflecting on how lucky I am, not only to be at the GSB, but to be alive, be of good faith, and be on my way to Heaven one day. I have been really bootleg about going… Read the rest

Back in the US and back on the internship grind

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What’s up, y’all. I got in from Cabo last night and it was a rough night because of this daggone cold. The coughing, sneezing, and congestion not only kept me up all night, but had me feeling like I was going to die on the plane. I feel a little better today, but I definitely need to go out and buy some meds sometime tonight.

When i got up this morning, I had to get ready to start the internship search grind up again with full force because I had three interviews over the course of the day. The first… Read the rest

The trip is still going…

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OK, I’ve been on this trip for 5 days and I just realized that I could get internet connectivity on my laptop. So, I’m finally able to make a new post about how this Spring Break trip to Cabo has gone. I never went on a Spring Break trip during my undergrad years because I was always working, so I was hoping to get that experience all at once on this one. To put it simply, this has been a GREAT trip. As the break approached, I had visions of all of the wild things one would see on MTV’s … Read the rest

Spring Break is finally here

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Whew, I finally made it to the end of the finals period for the Winter quarter and I feel like I’m about to pass out from exhaustion. Thank goodness Spring Break is here because I needed it in the worst way. In about 10 minutes, I’ll be catching a shuttle to the airport in San Francisco, where I’ll be catching a 6:30am flight to Cabo, Mexico. About 85 of my classmates are going to be making the trip and we’re going to be staying at a brand new resort down there where we’re going to be living like kings. It’ll… Read the rest

It’s a celebration!!!

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After a week of a couple of highs and many, many lows, I’m happy to say that winterr quarter finals are finally over. I just got back from taking my last exam for my Finance class and I feel like I’m ready to pass out. I was terrified going into this last exam because I didn’t feel like I’d developed the intuition that I’d need to answer the questions on the exam. I’d struggled on the midterm and, since the final counts for 50% of our final grade, I thought that I was in serious danger of failing. Fortunately, I… Read the rest

Winter quarter exams have started…

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Today was the start of winter quarter exams and, if today’s test was any indication of what I’ve got ahead of me, I’m in for a doozey of a week.

It all started with the final for my Strategy class this morning from 9am to noon. We’d been given access to last year’s exam as a study tool and, although my prof told us that the test would be more difficult than last year’s, I wasn’t even close to ready for this one. Last year’s exam had a total of 10 questions and was worth a total of 38 points…this… Read the rest

Time to cram for these exams…

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Today is the start of what will be a long weekend. As I said in my last entry, I haven’t been able to retain much info this quarter, so I’m going to be studying like a fiend to make sure I don’t fall flat on my face. My first exam is for Strategy on Monday morning, so that’s where i’m going to focus my attention initially. I didn’t have time to crack our textbook at all, so I’ve got to read all of the chapters…plus, I’ve got to review all of the cases and my class notes too. This is… Read the rest

This has been a LONG week

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As I sit here typing this entry, I’m on the verge of passing out from fatigue because this has to have been the longest week I’ve had since I’ve been here. Today was our last day of classes for the Winter quarter and it has taken every bit of energy I had to make it through without falling asleep at any given moment. I really enjoyed the 5 classes I took this quarter, but I can’t help but have some regrets because I don’t think I put as much effort into the classroom side of things as I should have.… Read the rest

This weekend was fantastic

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“Wow!”…that’s all I can say about this weekend. For the past few weeks, I’ve felt pretty run down by the internship search and the academic rigor of this quarter and, to be honest, I’d started to wonder if I was really on point enough to hack it here and survive the GSB. The past few days have re-energized me and have me ready to fight through the rest of this school year and take over the world over the summer

On Saturday, we had our annual Black Business Student Association conference at the Stanford Faculty Club, which went off without… Read the rest

The people have spoken…

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…and they said that they weren’t checkin’ for The Kid. The results of the Student Association Presidential election came out today and my running mate and I didn’t come out on top. The group who won were highly qualified , so I can’t be salty about the result and they’ll likely do a good job. At first, I was upset because I’d talked to several people last night who said that they had no clue that they had to revote and others who didn’t know that they had to specify a 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place team on the revote… Read the rest

It looks like I’m in a runoff for the Pres. race

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The results of the Student Association elections were supposed to be published today, so I was surprised to see an email in my Inbox this morning saying that the presidential race hasn’t been decided yet. According to the email, none of the four teams running for the position got more than 50% of the vote, so the co-COO’s have started a one-day runoff where each voter is supposed to pick a 1st, 2nd, and 3rd choice. From what the COO’s told each of us candidates in an email a couple of hours ago, the two teams with the most 1st… Read the rest

The Infosys story…

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Let me sart this one out by sending a shout out to Salas whose question inspired me to write up this story. (Salas, I had a long chat with your sister at a dinner party held by one of our classmates last night and she’s a cool cat. I can’t believe it took over 6 months for the two of us to meet and have a conversation)

So, my man Salas left a comment in my last entry asking me why I didn’t think I’d be able to accept the offer from Infosys, so I thought it would be a… Read the rest