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January 09, 2007
Go somewhere, go anywhere, young man
It’s been three months since I was in Europe, and unfortunately there’s no future trip in sight. This is why business school is so great. Class is interesting and you learn stuff and all, but really the point is to take two years and meet a lot of people and see the world. And one gets a nice raise upon finishing school. My vacation balance is now negative and shows no sign of going positive anytime soon.
A year ago, as I was about to start the final semester at Columbia, Tiffany and I went for a week in Europe. The flight cost $320 round trip, about half of what it costs to fly to Texas each week. A year ago tonight we were in Brugge, the medieval city in Belgium that time forgot, which was essentially mothballed from sometime in the late 1400s until the early 1900s. This city normally so overrun by tourists was eerily quiet, much as it has been throughout its history, save for a chilly breeze off the North Sea. Soon after that we found ourselves getting lost in northern Ireland and having the run of some old castles.
A year later I’m in central Texas screening the resumes of a few hundred Columbia MBAs who have applied to the Firm. I hope they’re off in the four corners of the world, places that they probably consider a wee bit more exciting than rural Texas.
Posted by adrianjo at January 9, 2007 10:35 PM