Taking advice from some master bloggers, here goes a haiku instead of a story.. big smile up in the sky hanging on for dear life what fun parasailing

Haiku girl, Italics opening Divergent thoughts in order

Dare to dream. A man whose mother jokingly introduced as "This is my son, he's a doctor, but not the kind who helps people" has touched the lives of millions of people across the globe. He legacy lives on through Alice , through his Last Lecture...

The day yesterday was marked distinctly with the sad news on Randy Pausch. With CMU being the cornerstone of Firenze - this post had to be written. I had another look at his last lecture yesterday. In retrospection the common messages he has...

One of Firenze's all-out success story is Dusko. He was on the winning team from our first year and then "interned" with Microsoft Services over 2007 summer. 2008 Summer he is now a full-fledged Tepper MBA with a fulltime job on the Sharepoint Offerings...

Responding to the plethora of invisible comments on this blog who have requested to help us put a face to our bloggers, the next series of posts will adhere to that :)

What is that drives one to put random yet structured, public yet inner, profound yet fleeting thoughts on to a public forum for the world to see? Social scientists are studying this phenomenon; Corporate world is exploring it as a means to recruit...

During the first year of a Tuck MBA, all students complete a rigorously monitored project. The projects typically are either entrepreneurial or consulting focused in nature. My project was related to launching a carbon nano-tube based water purification...

We had just gotten off the I5-N."Turn it up! Turn it up!" A shrill voice from the back of the bus yelling to the driver. The driver enthusiastically turned the volume on the radio up. "The traffic on 520 W and I5 is backed up quite a bit but it now seems...

Now that Pradeep has explained what the case competition was about, let me pick it up from " May/June - Interns join Microsoft " item on his list of events. Even before you start your internship, you will very likely receive at least a dozen emails welcoming...

The last 2 mths we have bombarded this blog with random thoughts from all our Firenze Interns on their journey and current thoughts. What we havent done is put it all together for an easy comprehension. Boring newsletter post to the rescue :) ...

Anyone who has attempted the Half Dome at Yosemite either loves pain or is clueless. Trudging back to the base camp [actually our car, parked near the camping gorunds] after almost 15 hours - I stopped keeping track after 3 - I realized that I fell...

I just had my mid-point presentation. It was my first time in front of the team leadership, so it was a little like a first date. So I decided to play it like a first date and stick with a few familiar key messages: 1. I know what I’m doing here. ...

Standing on the bridge overlooking the interstate late one evening, I felt the bridge tremble each time a car buzzed past under it. Hundreds of cars on either side travelling at least 10 or 20 above the speed limit I thought. I squinted just a bit. All...

Funny that Udayan wrote about what Firenze could mean - in his post. Perfect segue for mine, and we live in opposite sides of this continent currently and didnt even sync up on it. Back in July 2006 when I did think about this project and was looking...

Thanksgiving Break 2006 - as I enjoyed a short respite from a hectic first semester at business school, the email came that my team had made it past the first round of the inaugural Microsoft case competition at the Tepper School of Business. As I sat...

What connection does all this have with Florence? Or is it more to do with an obsession with Harry Potter? Does this portend an Italian Renaissance in Microsoft!! Or just remind us that not all Centaurs were wild and unruly!! Well, I am referring...

I looked up straight. The glistening snow on the peaks blinded me momentarily. I tentatively pushed a small pebble over the edge with my foot. Each second felt like an aeon as the pebble reached the ground hundreds of feet below. I looked at the clouds...

Yippee!! We are In - that is what my team@Tepper ( Colin, Deepthi, Seth, Sebastian and I ) thought upon finding out that we had won the Microsoft Services Case competition. Sure we were “In”, but little did I realize at that point what we were in for...

I seem to be developing a pattern here with Microsoft.. most of the memorable moments occur after sunset.. 1. We finalized and then redesigned and then re-finalized our strategy during a marathon all-nighter that we pulled off for the Microsoft case...

Looking back at my first year experience at Tuck, the Microsoft Case Competition was without a doubt one of the highlights of the year. Unlike a neatly packaged case, meant to be solved in a couple of days, we were presented with a “live” business problem...

I just got off the phone with a Tuck MBA applicant who spotted me at our case competition page (shameless plug: http://mba.tuck.dartmouth.edu/pages/clubs/case/ ), and wanted to chat about the application process. It was an interesting conversation for...