It is now almost 2am and I just got back home from a trip to NYC a couple of hours ago…I am EXHAUSTED!!! I went up there on Tuesday morning in order to attend Bain & Company’s Pre-MBA Summer Program for Black first-year students on Wednesday and Goldman Sachs’ Camp for Minority Students on Thursday and Friday. Like I’ve done after my earlier trips, I’ll break everything down based on each day and what went down…
Tuesday:I took the bus from DC to NYC on Tuesday morning with my friend Maya and we immediately ran into problems when the bus company had to ask the stand-by passengers to leave the bus at our second stop so reserved customers could board. Apparently, there were 2 or 3 cats on the front of the bus who lied over and over about having reservations and wouldn’t leave the bus. It took the driver and another guy from the bus company over an hour to get those guys to get off the bus and fill in the rest of the open seats with reserved folks. By the time we got going, we were 90 minutes behind schedule, but the driver was able to make up some time during his drive and only got us there an hour late.
After checking into my hotel in Times Square, I met up with one of my NYC peoples (Nakisha) to hang out for the evening. I had gotten word the night before that Puffy Combs is producing a new “Def Comedy Jamâ€-like comedy show and was doing tapings all week long, so I got on the list for tickets for one of the Wednesday night tapings and we went out to Brooklyn for it. The line was looooooong and it was hellafied, lazing hot and muggy outside, but the show was worth the wait. I haven’t laughed that hard in I don’t know how long. And, the host of the show is Doug E. Fresh, which, like any other true hip-hop fan, had me amped up by default. It was a great show and, best of all, it was free and that made me smile because I’ve been trying to save money everywhere I can. I believe the show is going to be called “P. Diddy Presents The Bad Boys of Comedy†and will be released straight to DVD. If you have a chance to check it out, it would be worth the time to do so.
Following the show, we caught the subway back into Manhattan and grabbed dinner…at 11:30pm. I hate eating that late, but that’s the way things go in NYC and there were a million and one restaurants open at that time. New York is a city that never shuts down. By the time I got back to my hotel, it was around 2am and I was beat-down tired. It’s a good thing I had no trouble getting to sleep because I had to check out of the hotel at 7:30am on Wednesday so I could meet Maya and walk over to the Bain event at their Times Square office.
OK, I’m tired, so I’m going to hit the sack. I’ll continue with my recap of the Bain Camp that went down on Wednesday sometime in the morning.
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