Good morning boys and girls. How was your Labor Day weekend? Mine was muggy, yet full of wedding excitement. I just returned from my best friend's wedding. I am on my way to my KSI. In the midst of all of this excitement I thought I would catch you all up.

First of all. Let’s touch base on where we are in my prep for Kellogg.
- I am nearly finished with all the math camp disks. I found them helpful. Did I learn something? Not really. But, it was a great refresher. I haven't done the equation for a line in ages.
- My condo is set up and ready go. I still need to purchase a desk and a kitchen island.
- I have gone out almost every evening since I arrived. I've been able to meet many of my fellow classmates.
- I have not completed the career leader program for Kellogg. I have filled it out at the company that I interned with this summer. But, I do need to complete it for Kellogg.
- A big goal that I was not able to accomplish was deciding what I wanted to do when I grow up.

This brings us to why I went to b-school in the first place.
Essentially, I realized when I was in undergrad at Iowa State that while ISU was not a bad school overall, it wasn't a great school and it was certainly not going to be an asset in helping me reach my goals of immense wealth and world domination. There are probably two drivers to this: 1. I realized my classmates were not the best and the brightest and 2. I happened to read the business week b-school profiles of 1996. From that point forward, my goal was to get into business school. Much of what I did was not only to put me in a position to get into business school, but also to enable me to get something out of it.

After three and a half years of consulting at young, growing tech strategy consulting firm, I had wanted to work at a large, established company with a well known and organized executive management training program. Then, I was admitted and I saw all the options in front me: I-Banking, Sales and Trading, Biz Dev, Brand Management, Gen Management or even consulting. This is far too complicated to discuss in one post. Additionally, I imagine this will be something I try to figure out while blogging over the first quarter.

I'll let you all know how the KSI goes.

Peace out in the nine deuce.

- posted by Hammy @ 11:11 PM