Back from NYC

I”m typing out this post while I’m sitting on the plane about an hour from SFO airport and I can’t make myself go to sleep, so I thought I’d make good use of my time and put together a new blog entry 🙂

Even though it’s been almost 6 hours since it got finished, I can’t get the thought of my interview with BCG off of my mind. The session was made up of three interviews that were part fit and part case and ran for about 45 minutes each. One thing that was common across the interviews was that each of the people I met with was incredibly nice, which was great but also made it hard to read them because I couldn’t tell if they thought I was on point or not. I think I did OK on the first fit/case combination and the second fit, but I’m not so sure about the second case and the third fit/case combination. I could feel myself getting exhausted as the interviews went on and, as time progressed, my analysis started getting sloppy. The weird part is that I could sense that that was going on, but I couldn’t do anything about it. That daggone jetlag really did a number on me. I’m going to have to remember to buy some NyQuil or Tylenol PM to take with me on my trip to ATL for McKinsey tomorrow because getting to sleep at 3:30am and then having to wake up early in the morning to prepare for an interview is NOT the clutch move.

When I left BCG’s offices, I felt like I might have done pretty well and thought that I might be getting the good word sometime tomorrow or Friday. But, now that I’ve had over 4 hours on this plane to think about how I did, I have realized places where I slipped up pretty badly in my analysis of the business cases and in reading my interviewers. I don’t think I did anything blatantly bad, but I can’t see where I straight-up nailed anything either. I would grade myself as a B on my performance and I fear that that isn’t good enough to get the “yessir” from a company like BCG. There isn’t any reason for me to be worrying about it now because I can’t do anything about it, but it is difficult not to think about it because I feel like I might have squandered a great opportunity to have the hookup for the summer. It looks like I’ll know for sure in the next couple of days.

I need to get an internship with a company I’d be willing to accept a full time offer from because I definitely don’t want to be going through this whole recruiting process again in the Fall.