It’s been a hectic week. Monday was 4 hours and change of class, with a lunch in between to discuss the admin-board meeting. Tuesday was a 4 hour leadership class, followed by said admin-board meeting (thankfully with croissantwiches), followed by two hours of accounting “review.” Those quotes are there because I actually acquired a substantial [...]
Last week, I was elected by the first-year students to be one of two student board representatives for the Rady full-time class of 2011, which sounds much better than freshman council rep. Today, I had my first meeting with the board. The meeting also included some members of the administration. I was impressed by the [...]
Next week, I’ll attend my first career fair at Rady. I get to wear a suit and tie and everything. As I understand it, a career fair is where a bunch of corporate representatives come and pretend they’re not chomping at the bit to bring back fresh MBA labor and ideas to their companies, and [...]
This week, I got some kind of unidentified flu, which I’m going to call swine flu because everyone and their uncle has gotten it around campus so why not me too. The day before I started feeling symptoms, I was going on and on about how I never get flu shots and how I’ve never [...]
Last year, “Urmi” and I took a trip to Seattle. One of the places we visited was Volunteer Park Cafe. This croissant sandwich item-thing was on the menu. We stole the idea and brought it back to California, with Urmi’s minor but inspired addition of a little ground pepper. Here’s what you do. You take [...]
It’s back! I went to the old student center again this week on Wednesday, and this time the Hare Krishna lunch was out in full force. This time, the grain-based dessert was flavored not with blueberries but with mangoes. I also have a hunch that they have upped the cinnamon quotient. The spinach dish and [...]
This week in Quant* we were considering situations involving stochasticity and risk. An example came up which involved two sales divisions. The Eastern division made consistently moderate yearly profits while the profitability of the Western division varied widely, but on average (over time) both divisions fared just about equally. The question under discussion was that [...]
My friend Kelly makes cards and started her own craft supply business! Support entrepreneurship in action.