Bad, bad, bad

[this post was largely inspired by our Marketing prof (who hates being called prof) Duncan Simester, on loan to us from MIT, or visiting from MIT depending on how you look at it, who makes marketing... well...interesting. His favourite phrase is 'bad customer'. OK, now that you're all set, here comes the actual post]

OK, I forgot my train of thought. I had this brilliant blogpost in my head during yesterday's Marketing class (not that the class wasn't interesting, on the contrary, it inspired a whole host of new thoughts), and then somehow I lost it. Didn't write it down and lost it. Forever and ever. Bad, bad Suzy.

I'm feeling better now, the cold has run its course and I'm back in the saddle. Good thing too, since I've started feeling a tad guilty about not putting on my suit and relentlessly hunting down an internship. So I made a list of 10 people/companies that I'm interested in or want to talk to (the people, not the companies), one for every week of this term, and I'm going to get in touch with all of them. And the best thing is: I don't have to wear a suit yet. Bad, bad suit.

The Milkround is still raging on campus (providing ample opportunity to ogle all my cute male classmates in suits) and I've seen the first cases of Milkround fatigue ('please just let this be over and someone give me a job'). Since I've not yet been to any presentations, I can't report back on the exact goings on (see Al's blog for more, he does wear a suit on occasion), but I've heard that some of the presentations were ace, and others lacked pizzazz. Bad, bad companies.

Next week, there will be an Industry Panel on campus (for those of us interested in what LBS calls 'Industry' which means any job except a job in banking or consulting)(and which I think sounds like I'll be working as a production worker on some conveyor belt) (bad, bad Career Services, can someone please come up with a new name?), which should be interesting and about which I'll report back. As the attentive reader might have guessed, I don't want to land a job in either banking (that would be bad for the bank AND for me) or consulting (been there, done that, got the t-shirt), so I'll be headed for that Industry category. So does that mean that I'm no part of Milkround at all? Well, no, there are a number of 'Industry' companies coming onto campus, but they start as of next week. I'll be heading to the BP, Shell and Google presentations, and yes, will wear a suit for that.

[edit 1: bad, bad Suzy for not being creative enough to come up with another 'bad, bad XXX' at the end of the last paragraph.]

[edit 2: good news: another new LBS 2008 blogger on the block: welcome Wheels! Dude, you 2008s have got quite the blogging community going already!!]