Marquis' Weblog

Yes...I did make it back to the US safely

I know it's been a while since I've written an entry, so I've got a lot to update y'all on. It's been so busy lately that I just haven't had time to write.

I probably should have made an entry right after I got back to the US to let folks know that I made it safely, but I have been constantly running since getting back. Between unpacking, finishing the set up of my room/house, and doing classwork, I've been swamped. It took 21 hours of traveling to get from Bangkok to SFO, but I was actually able to be productive on the flights and got all of my prep work done for my September Session seminars. I learned a ton in each of the seminars I had, but someone must have forgotten to send my professors the memo about how these joints are supposed to be easy because they assigned a load of work. Don't get me wrong...it was a really easy way to get 4 units, but I was so tired after it was all done on Friday that I literally slept 11.5 hours that night to recover from it all. I probably should have only taken on seminar so I could have eased my way back into school, but there is so much to learn that I didn't want to waste any opportunity to get more knowledge into my head.

On Tuesday morning in the middle of one of my seminars, I finally got the call from Accenture that I'd been waiting on and that call had good news...I got my job offer. I'm glad they called when they did because I was starting to worry that they weren't checkin' for me and that I'd done bootleg work for them this summer. Apparently, they had to wait for all of the interns to finish and for decisions to be made for each of us before giving anyone news about their status. I understand the reasons for this, but, in my opinion, that's a pretty bad model for how to handle offer decisions. As interns, we all work our butts off to get the good word from our summer employers and there is a lot of pressure to knock these internships out the park. The last thing an intern wants to do is be left in limbo for a month waiting to find out where he/she stands. I'm a huge fan of the model used by other companies, like Lehman and Booz Allen, where they give you the good/bad word on your last day of work. At least with that, you'dknow whether youn should be strategizing for the job search all over again when the school year starts.

In just about 23 hours, the second academic year of my MBA experience will start when my Fall quarter classes kick off. It's been over a month since I finished my summer job, but it seems so strange to be about to go back into the classroom for real, for real. All of the ceremonial things related to the school year have started...rushing to the bookstore and GSB to buy textbooks and course readers, stressing about getting readings done, wondering about how we're going to get all of this work done. I thought I'd been pretty good about getting a lot of this stuff taken care of and I still feel like I'm waaaaaaaay behind the curve. It's definitely a good feeling to be about to jump back into school head first...I don't knowwhat I'm going to do when it's time for me to go back into the Real World at this time next year. *shaking my head*

Posted by marquis930 at September 25, 2005 04:18 PM