It's getting busy

I though September would be relax but actually, I have quite a lot of things to do. The bulk of my work is to write the second year report. It's quite painful but I'm just glad to be over with it quite soon. My recommendation to the 2007 is to try to combine the second year project with the summer internship like I did with the other intern. It should save us quite a lot of time this year.

Then, I'm still struggling to schedule observation days with the manager I'm going to shadow. He is travelling most of this month so we managed to find only 2 days of observation in September and 3 days in October. The problem is that the MBA office does not want to give any extension to the deadline of September 30 so I'm a bit stuck here. I don't know yet how to overcome this but there is no way I'm putting some pressure (and I don't really see what kind of pressure I could apply here…) on my shadowee because of internal deadlines at the School. The guy is a very senior executive at one of the largest global investment bank that does recruit extensively at the School and he is doing his best to find some time in his agenda where he does not have confidential meetings. He is trying to be flexible so the School will have to be too!

Otherwise, I'm also probably going to work as an independent consultant for a small consulting firm who needs some help. The first project could be planning the MBO of a virtual network operator and prepare a due diligence for potential private equity investors. This should be quite interesting and besides, making extra money can't be that bad.

And finally, we are really thinking about creating a company with Guillaume. We just miss the idea, the money, the business plan and the time but we'll manage something :)