I lived to tell the tale
If this was a horror movie, it would probably be revealed at some point toward the end that I'm the killer.
In this RARE case though, life fails to be a horror movie. I would claim to be heroic instead... but I've worked few things out in life and I can claim to be crapped-on-despite-my-genius QUITE as much as I historically have. I successfully finished a year of MBA, I'm avoiding financial ruin despite school and a somewhat extravagent trip to vegas, and I got a decent internship despite waiting longer than I should to start my search. I'm following a good exec summary format and putting all the info up top for you guys!
This is the part where you are the "time-starved executive" and stop reading. I continue writing to support my claims.
Rising 2nd Year
I got my grades back and I maintained my 3.67 despite being the allegedly-toughest semester. My remaining classes should all be interesting and small. Next semester I'm taking business law, strategy, and 3 marketing classes. The last semester I'll be taking basically all finance classes.
Davis in Vegas
The bachelor party of one Chris Davis was conveniently placed the day after I finished my last classwork. After a 3-hour delay in Dulles, I boarded my JetBlue $99 flight at 11 our time. They have DirectTV on their planes now. That's pretty sweet right? You can event PPV movies using your credit card. Personally, I watched Mad Money and kickboxing. I recommend buying Allegheny Tech (ATI) because they are the major producer of a certain kind of steel that is essential in piping ethanol. I did a project on the Brazilian auto industry and those kids are crazy about flex-fuel cars. ATI is gonna cash-in as the US moves in that direction. So anyway, I got to vegas at 1am. The Brothers Davis and I then got really hot at a craps table in the Monte Carlo and I turned $200 into $730 by bedtime at 5am. The rest of the weekend I was up-and-down but that extra $500 was really nice.
The next morning I woke up at 9am because I'm crazy, and spent a few hours at the pool before lunch and the arrival of the other guests. Davis's Microsoft friends are nerdy but fun and I look forward to seeing them again at the wedding. That night we had a nice dinner, and proceeded via limo to the Spearmint Rhino where I proceeded to drink bourbon and look at boobs. I'm too sensitive/ghey to appreciate the lapdance action, but the girls there were very hot and good at making amusing conversation too actually. I didn't spend too much money, but some of the guys got pretty-well cleaned out due to the considerable feminine wiles brought to bear on their drunken pinnae.
Saturday afternoon we all hit a shooting range and I fired an MP5 at a picture of a dirty guido. Sadly, I'm not a natural or anything so I'm cancelling my plans to walk-on at DC SWAT team tryouts. Later that night, we attended the WEC show at The Joint in the Hard Rock. The WEC is a recent acquisition of the UFC and now works as a feeder league for the UFC. There, I lost some money (and some of other people's money) by betting on fighters I barely knew about. The venue is very small and fun, and there were MMA "celebs" everywhere. I peed between "Stitch" Duran and Steve Mazagatti!!! My life is now complete! Afterward, we went to In And Out burger for a snack and that shit is admittedly very good. I actually did a bunch of sports betting with mixed results. I have some action working on the Bears (everyone should bet on their team to win it all) and 2 UFC fights. Sunday we basically had breakfast and went home. Imagine random gambling sprinkled in there too.
Internship at Nextlink (probably)
It isn't what I wanted, but it'll do. Pig. The company is a recently-created subsidiary of XO communications. XO owns some chunk of wireless broadband um... signal... and they created a subsidary to sell it. My job will be with the finance department, where I will do research and analysis of XO's customer databases so we can direct the salesforce to focus effort on appropriate potential customers. The team will be small, and I will be the only youngin'. The advantage is that I'll be working directly with these manager-types and hopefully learn alot. The disadvantage is that I don't get the sweet internship events at Dave & Busters like you get when you work for a big firm or date Hugh Hefner. The hiring manager and HR lady have chosen me, so they're waiting now for their bosses to do some paperwork so they can make me an actual offer.
The internship starts June 4th, so I'll have lots of free time in the next few weeks. I'm going to do my best to catch up with everyone and see everyone and do everything. Every. Please inform and invite me to everything now. I'm prepared to be a good friend again!
In this RARE case though, life fails to be a horror movie. I would claim to be heroic instead... but I've worked few things out in life and I can claim to be crapped-on-despite-my-genius QUITE as much as I historically have. I successfully finished a year of MBA, I'm avoiding financial ruin despite school and a somewhat extravagent trip to vegas, and I got a decent internship despite waiting longer than I should to start my search. I'm following a good exec summary format and putting all the info up top for you guys!
This is the part where you are the "time-starved executive" and stop reading. I continue writing to support my claims.
Rising 2nd Year
I got my grades back and I maintained my 3.67 despite being the allegedly-toughest semester. My remaining classes should all be interesting and small. Next semester I'm taking business law, strategy, and 3 marketing classes. The last semester I'll be taking basically all finance classes.
Davis in Vegas
The bachelor party of one Chris Davis was conveniently placed the day after I finished my last classwork. After a 3-hour delay in Dulles, I boarded my JetBlue $99 flight at 11 our time. They have DirectTV on their planes now. That's pretty sweet right? You can event PPV movies using your credit card. Personally, I watched Mad Money and kickboxing. I recommend buying Allegheny Tech (ATI) because they are the major producer of a certain kind of steel that is essential in piping ethanol. I did a project on the Brazilian auto industry and those kids are crazy about flex-fuel cars. ATI is gonna cash-in as the US moves in that direction. So anyway, I got to vegas at 1am. The Brothers Davis and I then got really hot at a craps table in the Monte Carlo and I turned $200 into $730 by bedtime at 5am. The rest of the weekend I was up-and-down but that extra $500 was really nice.
The next morning I woke up at 9am because I'm crazy, and spent a few hours at the pool before lunch and the arrival of the other guests. Davis's Microsoft friends are nerdy but fun and I look forward to seeing them again at the wedding. That night we had a nice dinner, and proceeded via limo to the Spearmint Rhino where I proceeded to drink bourbon and look at boobs. I'm too sensitive/ghey to appreciate the lapdance action, but the girls there were very hot and good at making amusing conversation too actually. I didn't spend too much money, but some of the guys got pretty-well cleaned out due to the considerable feminine wiles brought to bear on their drunken pinnae.
Saturday afternoon we all hit a shooting range and I fired an MP5 at a picture of a dirty guido. Sadly, I'm not a natural or anything so I'm cancelling my plans to walk-on at DC SWAT team tryouts. Later that night, we attended the WEC show at The Joint in the Hard Rock. The WEC is a recent acquisition of the UFC and now works as a feeder league for the UFC. There, I lost some money (and some of other people's money) by betting on fighters I barely knew about. The venue is very small and fun, and there were MMA "celebs" everywhere. I peed between "Stitch" Duran and Steve Mazagatti!!! My life is now complete! Afterward, we went to In And Out burger for a snack and that shit is admittedly very good. I actually did a bunch of sports betting with mixed results. I have some action working on the Bears (everyone should bet on their team to win it all) and 2 UFC fights. Sunday we basically had breakfast and went home. Imagine random gambling sprinkled in there too.
Internship at Nextlink (probably)
It isn't what I wanted, but it'll do. Pig. The company is a recently-created subsidiary of XO communications. XO owns some chunk of wireless broadband um... signal... and they created a subsidary to sell it. My job will be with the finance department, where I will do research and analysis of XO's customer databases so we can direct the salesforce to focus effort on appropriate potential customers. The team will be small, and I will be the only youngin'. The advantage is that I'll be working directly with these manager-types and hopefully learn alot. The disadvantage is that I don't get the sweet internship events at Dave & Busters like you get when you work for a big firm or date Hugh Hefner. The hiring manager and HR lady have chosen me, so they're waiting now for their bosses to do some paperwork so they can make me an actual offer.
The internship starts June 4th, so I'll have lots of free time in the next few weeks. I'm going to do my best to catch up with everyone and see everyone and do everything. Every. Please inform and invite me to everything now. I'm prepared to be a good friend again!