Yesterday I landed another interview and have now dubbed next week Industrial Conglomerate week. It feels a little odd to interview for staunch competitors on alternate days, but this is the b-school way. It's also apparent that these companies are outside my wheelhouse, so I have a ton more prep to do ahead of these two.

Yesterday was the last float on the CEO parade. Jenelle correctly pointed out that this is a pretty bizarre class and also a bit contrived. Yip. I mean the face time is great (although not really since it has no lasting value) and it is interesting, but the learnings are of dubious quality and enormous subjectivity. Yesterday our professor, the apparently-esteemed ex-Chairman of American Motors, rated himself as a 9 (out of 10) leader and 10 (out of 10) master manager. A perfect manager and the Pacer was your hot-seller? No comment.

There has been concern of late, among my peers, that a person's internet presence could lead to negative career-search baggage. (This assumes, of course, that a recruiter doesn't use Google search, as documented previously.) My thought is that if you aren't proud and confident of the persona you represent online, you have a real problem. If you can't comfortably share opinions, personal activities, and even pictures with a recruiter, what are you hiding? I'm sure that I don't achieve 100% consensus with my virtual views, but I certainly don't get there offline either.