Moving forward with job search

In the aftermath of the OCR process, I’ve declared myself the king of the second round knock-out. Here are my stats so far:

-10 first round interviews
-1 offer awarded after first round (with Infosys, but it looks like I won’t be able to accept it)
-5 second round interview invitations
– 1 second round invitation rescinded because I wouldn’t cancel one of the my other 2nd round trips
– 4 second round dings

Now, I’m settled with the fact that I’m going to have to do the job thing on my own and this will definitely help me strengthen my hustle skills. It turns out that only about 30% of my class has internship offers that they’ve gotten through OCR and, now that that’s run its course, there are 70% of us who have to do it on our own. Fortunately, the Career Management Center is being great about giving advice and helping us in any way that they can. It’s just tough because I fully expected to be finished with the recruiting process by now. I’ll let y’all know if/when i find something good.

On other things, i just left Bishop Auditorium at the GSbB where I participated in our presidential candidate debate. I’ve decided to throw my hat in the ring to run for co-president of the school with my man Cameron who is also a Princeton alum. We’re one of four teams running and I think we’re coming in as underdogs because we have neither a female (the other three groups have a female and, traditionally, you have to have a woman to win) nor international student (same sort of historical trend) on the team. Recognizing that we’d be fighting against those historical trends, we decided to run anyway because we’re both passionate about doing some good for the school and our platform (focusing on class unity and diversity) is pretty strong. The elections will take place on Sunday and Monday with the results coming out on Tuesday. I’m not really sure if I’ll win, but, if I do, I’m looking forward to helping to make this palce even better than it already is.