A person might expect a midwestern ski resort 45 miles northeast of Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, to be a sleepy old place on a Saturday in January. Well, it wasn't. A year ago Robin and I won this trip and now Jenelle and I are enjoying a 6-person chalet at Searchmont and a weekend in the Canadian north. The weather has been perfect for skiing and it was Mardi Gras on the slopes today, in addition to Brigitte Acton Day. It's probably rare for a midwestern mountain to have an Olympian skiing around the slopes on a January, but when the Olympian calls the hill home you get to ski in the tracks of an Olympian. (Very impressive, by the way. Her tracks were, in every way, perfect; two parallel curving rails that were never anything but an incredible oblique 'v' in the snow.)
For archival purposes a review of Friday, too: MTrek interviews went well but long. Some people were way more excited about their trips and some people were excited about different things about their trips, but all should be good experiences for incoming MBAs. There was another round of TMI corporate project presentations as well. GM, Merck, John Deere, and ATKearney were on campus to share their projects; for whatever reason I just couldn't get into any of them. Merck's project is probably a winner and Deere's would be a great fit for me but I'm not into those companies or Puerto Rico or Orenburg Russia. GM's project just doesn't sound cool, and I'm not gunning for consulting so it'd be against b-school protocol and etiquette to pursue a 70-hour per week summer job. Finally, we got our MAP binders - over 100 options for the seven week Multidisciplinary Action Project that fills Winter B. I've barely cracked the cover.
Saturday, January 14, 2006