What I Did On My Day Off
Went down to SF yesterday with S, who's in the personnel department with you know who. Ex-scholar, so it was a lot easier to talk to her. Sadly, she doesn't run the show, so I can't exactly get my grad school plans automatically approved with a nudge and wink. None of the 10+ people at Stanfurd even bothered to show up to keep her company! I admit that the Farm is farther from SF than Cal, but most of them have cars. For shame!
Why'd I do it? Because it suckes being alone in a foriegn place and I wouldn't wish it on anyone. And besides, I haven't been out in a while, and the whole "woe is me, I have too much work" excuse can't always work.
Where'd we go? Basically hung out at Nordstrom, then popped over to Urban Outfitters (it looks like college kid stuff, but it costs like Bannana Republic. What gives?). There as a big CNY parade, but it was raining and hyper-crowded, so we skipped that. Went to Chinatown and took the walk up to Fisherman's Wharf. Talked a lot. Went to IHOP (Int'l House of Pancakes) for dinner. I like IHOP, but its too expensive for the amount/quality of food. I do like the breakfast all day deal, and the 4 flavours of syrup, though. (I, of course, used the butter-pecan...) S reminds me of E, in tone of voice, way of seeing the world and all that. I almost asked her if they knew each other.
Basically done with my Macro Econ revision (midterm Tues). I have to glance over the notes again eventually, but it should be okay. Waiting on lab report stuff from A, so I can do my own bit (report due Weds. Argh).
Feeling little surges of sneering contempt for business majors. Very bad. Some possible explanations:
1)Pointy haired boss rationale: they supervise but are clueless
2)Payscale: They get paid more but are clueless
3)(I think this is the real reason) Confidence. (or unconcious arrogance, in many cases) I don't have it, they do. I resent them because I know that I'm more capable than (the vast majority of) them but I don't have half their confidence. Is the confidence a result of being lauded as a "Brilliant Student, that's the only reason you're in B-School" (of course I think that's just BS) or is it that only confident people get past the selection criteria. Probably a bit of both.
In DnD terms: I'm annoyed that Cha suddenly became a more important stat than Int or Wis (I tend to mage/cleric mentality, and in the modern economy, unless you're a soldier or an athelete, Int/Wis seem the most useful...).
On a side note, and again on the topic of Brit fetishes, I have to agree with this.
Went down to SF yesterday with S, who's in the personnel department with you know who. Ex-scholar, so it was a lot easier to talk to her. Sadly, she doesn't run the show, so I can't exactly get my grad school plans automatically approved with a nudge and wink. None of the 10+ people at Stanfurd even bothered to show up to keep her company! I admit that the Farm is farther from SF than Cal, but most of them have cars. For shame!
Why'd I do it? Because it suckes being alone in a foriegn place and I wouldn't wish it on anyone. And besides, I haven't been out in a while, and the whole "woe is me, I have too much work" excuse can't always work.
Where'd we go? Basically hung out at Nordstrom, then popped over to Urban Outfitters (it looks like college kid stuff, but it costs like Bannana Republic. What gives?). There as a big CNY parade, but it was raining and hyper-crowded, so we skipped that. Went to Chinatown and took the walk up to Fisherman's Wharf. Talked a lot. Went to IHOP (Int'l House of Pancakes) for dinner. I like IHOP, but its too expensive for the amount/quality of food. I do like the breakfast all day deal, and the 4 flavours of syrup, though. (I, of course, used the butter-pecan...) S reminds me of E, in tone of voice, way of seeing the world and all that. I almost asked her if they knew each other.
Basically done with my Macro Econ revision (midterm Tues). I have to glance over the notes again eventually, but it should be okay. Waiting on lab report stuff from A, so I can do my own bit (report due Weds. Argh).
Feeling little surges of sneering contempt for business majors. Very bad. Some possible explanations:
1)Pointy haired boss rationale: they supervise but are clueless
2)Payscale: They get paid more but are clueless
3)(I think this is the real reason) Confidence. (or unconcious arrogance, in many cases) I don't have it, they do. I resent them because I know that I'm more capable than (the vast majority of) them but I don't have half their confidence. Is the confidence a result of being lauded as a "Brilliant Student, that's the only reason you're in B-School" (of course I think that's just BS) or is it that only confident people get past the selection criteria. Probably a bit of both.
In DnD terms: I'm annoyed that Cha suddenly became a more important stat than Int or Wis (I tend to mage/cleric mentality, and in the modern economy, unless you're a soldier or an athelete, Int/Wis seem the most useful...).
On a side note, and again on the topic of Brit fetishes, I have to agree with this.
posted by Enforced Equanimity at 4:34 PM
3 Comments:
Emma Watson is British? She doesn't even have one of those cool accents. *g*
But while she is definitely very pretty, she's also too young for me to look at her that way. Maybe in a few more years.
she looks WAY too young. Definitely jailbait.
Anyway, about b-school... think about it this way, most sucessful applicants to b-school are either
1. i-banker or consulting types who've been in it for 2-3 years and need b-school to advance higher, in which case confidence is kinda essential to even get past the interview stage... trust me I have problems with this too I think it's a cultural issue. Even though I've been here 3 years I still can't do that whole thing.
or
2. upper level management.. even more so confidence because they need to have confidence in their own judgements to get there or even stay there. Of course making the right decision all the time (or at least that's what the low level flunkies tell them) does something to their ego too.
In response to C's response about B-School... I meant the undergraduate program, not the exec MBA types.
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