Way to go, miscalculation

Last night, I thought that I could get my economics problem set, a mere three problems, done in three hours. WRONG. It took twice that time, and then another hour to check all of my work and work out my mistakes. At least I wasn’t off by an exponent, though – three hours? WRONG. Nine hours! That would been horrible and probably fatal.

I wrote my first recommendation ever for my friend Dave yesterday. It was for his application to Harvard Business School – I really hope that he gets in. I’m writing another one for him for the Stanford Graduate School of Business in a week, but that’ll probably be fairly simple because I’ll be able to re-use some of the stuff that I wrote in the Harvard one.

Today, I went to the most boring investment banking presentation EVER. I can’t imagine being able to stand being around Bank of America investment bankers. They’re ridiculously boring people. They even had crappy food – they ordered pizza from the best pizza place in Chicago and it wasn’t even Chicago-style pizza. At least they provided us free taxis to come home…