There're rumblings of job news, too. Things went well on Monday and that - hopefully - puts me in decision mode. I say hopefully only because one has to be wary of these things; there are variables on both sides, financial, geographical, chronological, that have to be sorted before a true comparison and decision can be made.

I've also decided that good news travels at something approaching the speed of sound while bad news (the b-school 'ding') arrives at the speed of something much slower, say a Michigan basketball chest pass. On the same day in which I received an interview and an 'intent to offer' I got a cheery, virtual ding from a company I interviewed with in late October.... the same October that occured over three months ago. This makes me very sad; what takes 90 days to decide on a candidate? Nothing - we all know this decision has been made for some time, so why not just send an email, provide some feedback, and move on? There's a real - and asymmetric - lack of respect throughout much of the recruiting process that corporations don't get called on enough.