A major component of this site is a weblog that has had several lives, from its start as a featured MBA applicant/student blog on a separate site to its own presence on the Blogger system and now to its own domain as my personal website.
As you read through the entries, you'll see me go through three distinct phases in my life:
- Pre-MBA experience: Experiences that one typically goes through before matriculating at business school
- Life as an MBA student: Highs and lows of my time as a student at the Stanford Graduate School of Business in much more detail than most would expect to see
- Post-MBA life...and serving as a career/education/life coach to the masses: Responses to questions emailed to me by readers, where I use what I have learned through my own missteps and experiences to help others achieve their goals and avoid making the same misstepsÂ
Day 4 – Cheyenne, WY to Elko, NV
After a day of driving that started at 8:20AM and lasted 9 hours (Mapquest estimated 10 hours), I arrived in Elko, NV this afternoon…and checked into yet another hotel with no internet access. From all of the signs that I’d seen on the highway, I thought Elko...
Day 3 – Des Moines, IA to Cheyenne, WY
I just got into town and I’ve got yet another hotel room without internet access. Fortunately, there was a Kinko’s down the street so I was able to check my email for 20 cents per minute…that was some of the fastest emailing that I’ve ever done : - ) Today was...
Day 2 – Toledo, OH to Des Moines, IA
Unfortunately, my hotel room here doesn’t have high-speed internet access, so I’m typing this entry in Word and will upload it when I can access the internet from my laptop. Something tells me that I won’t be seeing an internet connection until I get to...
Day 1 – Alexandria, VA to Toledo, OH
Whew! I sure am tired. It's a little after 9pm EST and I finally made it to my hotel room in Toledo. And, best of all, there is a wireless network set up here so can submit this blog entry. The drive here seemed to take forever. It took me a little over 8 hours to get...
Time to hit the road.
At long last, the big day is here...it's time for your boy to hit the road and start that long drive out to Stanford. I'm exhausted from staying up until 4am and getting up at 8am to get my car loaded, but i'm finished with that. Now, I've just got to hit the shower...
The expenses just keep on piling up…
OK, y'all know that I'm making plans to start my drive out to Cali next week, right? Well, I knew that I should get a tune-up for my car before leaving because I didn't want to break down in the middle of somewhere like Wyoming with no cell phone reception. So, I...
VA done come up!!! – Part II
I would have made this entry last night, but the wireless network at my hotel died for some reason. Anyways, I'm here now so let me get to it. My man Cameron made another big baller move yesterday in St. Martin and this one is HUGE. He and I were looking for Orient...
VA got knocked down today…
I know that I could have put this story along with my other entry for today, but I had to make a separate one because it is nowhere near as good as that tale. My group and I decided that we would get up early this morning and take a 2-hr boat ride out to the island of...
VA done come up!!!
I can't make this a long entry because I'm about to grab some dinner with my peoples, but I just HAD to make an entry because I hit a major milestone for myself today. Before telling this story, I've got to preface it by saying that I can't swim a lick, so I have a...
Greetings from St. Martin!!! 🙂
I'm sitting here in the bar area of my hotel right on the beach and all I can say is that St. Martin is paradise. I don't think I've ever seen beaches with such clean water and pretty scenery. I'm not a huge beach person but that may change by the end of this week....