Monday November 13 - November 16: MBA Recruiting travel

A travel-intensive week is the least you can say about last week.

On Monday I flew over to Boston for the first Bain recruiting presentation of the week at Harvard Business School. The venue (Charles hotel in Cambridge) was great, as were the people who attended the presentation. I met my former colleague Jens (who is now a first-year student at Harvard), who he gave me a tour of the Harvard campus, which is quite impressive; all on-campus buildings are connected through underground tunnels so that students don't have to go out when it's freezing -15°C over there.

Unfortunately I had to get up quite early in the morning to take my 8am flight to Chicago. The taxi driver who took me to the airport turned out to be a total maniac, driving at 120km/h with his windows all dampened, and when I pointed out that he could drive a little slower he pretended not to understand any English (which came in handy because he couldn't object when I didn't tip him :-)

I have been positively impressed by Chicago. Although it was very foggy during the 2 days I was there, I could just see the lake from our office [which is located in the Sears Tower, the 3rd tallest building in the world after Taipei101 (Taiwan) & Petronas (Malaysia)]. A lot of museums have been implanted at the lakeside, which makes that this side of the city is a lot less hectic. Although work (& the 2 other recruiting presentations I attended: Kellogg & Chicago GSB) prohibited me from visiting the city extensively I managed to visit the Chicago Art Institute, which is supposed to have the 3rd most representative collection of Modern Art in the world (after MoMA & Pompidou). The museum also has a lot of famous impressionist pieces.


(Picture 1: View from Sears Tower, Picture 2: Chicago Art Institute)

On Thursday I flew back to New York, arriving at LaGuardia around noon (there is a 1h time difference between Chicago & New York), which allowed me just 2 hours to go to my appartment, pack for the weekend (flying to Belgium to attend Philippe & Sarah's wedding) & get to JFK airport, a rushing end to a rushing week...