Re-Bienvenidos a Barcelona

It's a funny thing to have writer's block for a blog. This blog has been a series of Holden Caufield-esque streams of consciousness but I try to put some thought into what I wanted to write. So today's blog post will be about one of three things.

1. The ESADE Consulting Club trip to London
2. General thoughts about the internship process
   
3. My career, life and future

Via a completely random computerized selection process i.e. going into Microsoft Excel and typing =rand()*3 the winner is topic 1.  The real winner is you, the reader, since I'm sure you wanted to hear me ramble about my life and future.

So the ESADE Consulting Trip was quite interesting. Our schedule was as follows:

Thursday - Bain & Co. and Navigant Consulting

Friday - Solon, KPMG, BearingPoint, Analysys Mason and Oliver Wyman

Mixture of presentations and Q&A at each company. The presentations were great and I felt that by meeting the company representatives I got to skip ahead of the recruiting line by foregoing the typical "Please submit your CV and Cover Letter via our Career site".

But really all this is quite pedantic. What was most awesome for me was finally being in a land where I could understand everyone and eating food that wasn't goddamn tapas. Oh, and normal sized coffee.

You don't realize how happy I was to get a large coffee in London. Granted it cost me something like 3.50 pounds, which is like $8,513 USD but still it was nice. One of these days I'll take a picture of what we get here in Barcelona but just imagine that cup and then shrinking it to about 1/410th of that size. Honey I Shrunk the Coffee Cup! (I'm somewhat torn as to how much I liked that last joke. In a way it's corny and  really dorky, which basically epitomizes yours truly but at the same time I can't help but shake my head in disdain as to the level of dorkiness that spews from my brain).

Anyways, back to the food. While I was there I also sampled some of Britain's favorite artery clogger, fish and chips, at a pub called The Larrick.

Britain's obesity rates are climbing as steadily as America's and it's really no surprise why, but God bless the Queen for that.

I got back from London on Saturday and then had a 1st round phone interview on Monday for a summer internship position within the biz dev and M&A group at a large entertainment company. I felt that the constant networking while in London helped keep my mind fresh in terms of verbal communication but now that the interview is done it's out of my hands and out of my control as to what happens next. I feel that the position and the job description is a good fit with my background but it's a tough market and the competition is really high. I'll stay optimistic but there's a part of me that thinks I have a snowball's chance in Venus (surface temperature of 460C=hot)

You know, reading over this post it's not a very interesting one. I'm somewhat disappointed that after 7 days without a blog post and a trip to London this was the best I could come up with. Feel free to leave me comments about how much it sucked so I can put coal in your stockings.