Where's Nate?

living large in the four-oh-eight. wicked large.

12.31.2006

the road to pasadena.



Paige and I are heading south with Reed and Jessica to cheer on the Maize and Blue. Reed and Jessica are, of course, Trojan alums so they will be rooting for the big guy with the sword and the horse and the incessant two-finger chopping. We're making them sit in the UM student section, which should prove to be one of the few corners of the Rose Bowl with a maize majority.

Go Blue. When (if?) Ohio State blows Florida out by 40 points, the winner of this game will be the reluctant bridesmaid. Sigh.

12.28.2006

not cool.

As a former Apple employee and current shareholder, I have not been pleased with the recent stock options scandals. So when I read a news story today pointing the finger at The Big Guy and it causes my shares to drop 5%, it's not a pleasant thing. Let's go, fruit company. Clean it up! The little guys are getting screwed.

12.21.2006

eleven days.

Eleven days since my last post. That's pathetic. As I sit here in the comfort of my living room in rainy Silicon Valley, it's hard to believe that I'm only four months away from graduation. Which means it's the perfect time to reflect on the past semester.

A majority of my classmates returned from their summer internships with full-time offers in hand. However, the confluence of a top ranked B-School and a hot job market meant that nearly everyone was still shopping around. This made "Where are you going next year?" the most-asked question on campus this fall, followed closely by "When is the sun going to come out?"

Yours truly has consciously removed himself from the job search wackiness and attempted to focus more on academics and extracurriculars. That's because our friends in Silicon Valley tend to delay their hiring decisions until they have an actual need. In other words, while P&G can tell you in September the heads they will need the following August, tech companies have almost no idea. Who knows what the next few months will bring on the job front? All I know for certain is that it's a very short list.

12.10.2006

even vikings love p-hat.



P-Hat playing "Say It Ain't So" at Rock n Roll B-School a few weeks back. It's great to be a charter member of the most shamelessly self-promoting business school rock band in Ann Arbor. Note the dude in the viking helmet.

12.06.2006

better use bean-o.

Certain things in life are always funny. And one of them is a good fart joke. So when the poor folks on a flight from DC to DFW had to make a pit stop in Nashville the other day because a passenger had five-way chili the night before, I had to be sure to share the news story with all of you.

12.05.2006

class.

At the request of my classmates, I'm updating my blog from the comfort of my exciting law class. Today's festivities include an "um" count, the daily tally of comments from two gunners, a photo of a waterfall, and some discussion of my epic performance last Friday night.

More on that later.

Also, floating up to the MBA2s from the land of MBA1s is a tale from my old marketing prof:
Today someone made a comment about going to carwashes whenever you want. Gershoff followed up that he had friends in college who would have killed for that, but for different reasons. Everyone stares blankly, he pauses and then waits and says, “Ohh, like you never got stoned and went to car washes in college”.

class.

At the request of my classmates, I'm updating my blog from the comfort of my exciting law class. Today's festivities include an "um" count, the daily tally of comments from two gunners, a photo of a waterfall, and some discussion of my epic performance last Friday night.

More on that later.

Also, floating up to the MBA2s from the land of MBA1s is a tale from my old marketing prof:
Today someone made a comment about going to carwashes whenever you want. Gershoff followed up that he had friends in college who would have killed for that, but for different reasons. Everyone stares blankly, he pauses and then waits and says, “Ohh, like you never got stoned and went to car washes in college”.