Baylor MBA Encourages Interns to Not Fuck Up

Today we interns made our final presentations to executives and management and to my surprise, Ken Buckley -the Baylor MBA Career Advisor pictured to the left- flew out from Texas to watch. After signing an NDA, admiring our PowerPoint heroics, taking a few meetings with HR, and talking to our managers, he took us out to dinner, asked about the internships, made sure it was a worthwhile experience then left.

Considering Texas is about 800 miles away and I’m no longer technically an MBA student, I felt honored to learn the school was still willing to pay for my food.

19th Grade Field Trips

Last Friday we toured the Lockheed Martin facility to check out some rockets at their 5,000 acre campus and +1 visited over the weekend. Both great events that didn’t compare to today’s Top Chef demonstration.

Season three contestants, Casey Thompson (Executive Chef at Shinsei, Dallas / attractive female) and Brian Malarkey (the victim of an unfortunate last name), gave us some cooking lessons, taught us to appreciate the finer things, and fed us a Pan-Asian concoction of green soup, lump crab meat, coconut milk, ginger, pepper and all kinds of ingredients I’d never think to combine on my own.

Why they were doing a cooking show from a truck in the middle of our parking lot remains to be seen, but five minutes ago I didn’t know the attractive chef’s name and now, thanks to Google, I don’t have to imagine what she looks like with less clothes. High Five!!!

Contributing to Minors is SO Last Week

After work on Wednesday I made my way to South Lake Tahoe for +1’s 21st birthday. To celebrate blog-style, here is a picture of her as a person of legal drinking age accompanied by her not-legal-age-for-anything sister. I’d include a picture of myself but spent the weekend photographing like a 6’2” leprechaun.

And while I spent Friday playing golf, drinking, eating and gambling with my now legal girlfriend, back in Denver, the other interns went to work climbing a 14,000 foot mountain.

Guided by CEO, Charlie Ergen, they left at 2AM, started climbing at 5:30, got to the top by 12, and back down by 4. As fun as that doesn’t sound, I thank Reddy for including my spirit in their accomplishment.