<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><rss version='2.0'><channel><title>Squaremethod Design Studio RSS Blog Feed</title><link>http://www.squaremethod.com/</link><description>Squaremethod Design Studio: thoughts and news updated daily: by Christof Meyer</description><language>en-us</language><docs>http://www.squaremethod.com/blog/rss.xml</docs><item><title><![CDATA[Want a Consulting Job? Get a Blog]]></title><link>http://www.squaremethod.com/blog/blog.php?id=192</link><description><![CDATA[I've been wondering for a while when blogging will become a necessary component of the serious MBA students recruiting strategy. Well I believe that moment has arrived.

I got a really interesting email in my inbox today after classes. Apparently Deloitte has a new ad campaign going out to MBA students and they are spreading the word (and an offer to forward my resume directly to a special Deloitte group handling the ad campaign) through bloggers like myself.

Now, even assum....]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 17:14:49 PST</pubDate><guid>http://www.squaremethod.com/blog/blog.php?id=192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[First Day of Second Year]]></title><link>http://www.squaremethod.com/blog/blog.php?id=191</link><description><![CDATA[Yesterday was my first day back to school at Darden and with it came many crazy feelings, impressions,misconceptions, and... even a few epiphanies. 

My general strategy for this year is to get in over my head and wait for "the process" to save my life. We are often told around here to "trust the process" and so, after surviving a monumentally challenging first year relatively intact, I have decided to up the ante a bit and take the majority of my classes this year in accounting and fi....]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 16:55:44 PST</pubDate><guid>http://www.squaremethod.com/blog/blog.php?id=191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Working For A Living]]></title><link>http://www.squaremethod.com/blog/blog.php?id=188</link><description><![CDATA[I am currently hanging out with my brother-in-law in Charlottesville working on my blog. I would rather be enjoying the beautiful Virginia countryside in my 1994 Jeep Grand Cherokee but, alas, it is broken and in the shop...

My soul, thus, waiteth for the mechanics phone call, like the uh... desert waiteth for the rain - insert your favorite allusion to natural waiting annoyance.
Be on the lookout for lots of really cool improvements in the next few days.

Hopefully....]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 14:23:18 PST</pubDate><guid>http://www.squaremethod.com/blog/blog.php?id=188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Best Use of Thoreau Yet]]></title><link>http://www.squaremethod.com/blog/blog.php?id=184</link><description><![CDATA["I went into the woods because I wanted to live deliberately. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life...to put to rout all that was not life; and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
~Henry David Thoreau

Well, I guess that some friends of mine will laugh - because I always give Thoreau such a hard time. He's led around by his passions, incoherent at times, extremely self-absorbed, but witty. And, at times, totally right.

So many....]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 22:02:59 PST</pubDate><guid>http://www.squaremethod.com/blog/blog.php?id=184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only in a big city]]></title><link>http://www.squaremethod.com/blog/blog.php?id=181</link><description><![CDATA[For a country-boy it definitely comes as a bit of a surprise to find that New York is really quite nice. It's obviously much bigger than Charlottesville, Birmingham, Aztec, or almost any other place I've ever lived... but while that clearly opens up the door to numerous negatives, there are also positives to spending lots of time in a big city.

My wife flew into La Guardia on Wednesday night. She got a cab and was in the kitchen eating dinner in less than 30 minutes. That's still amaz....]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 22:05:10 PST</pubDate><guid>http://www.squaremethod.com/blog/blog.php?id=181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[10 Ingredients For A Perfect MBA Internship]]></title><link>http://www.squaremethod.com/blog/blog.php?id=176</link><description><![CDATA[I am only three weeks into my summer internship here at Lehman, but I have already begun to consider the things that I want to have accomplished before I leave here in August.

Notwithstanding the current (psycho) market conditions in which I have found myself, it can still be difficult to find perspective on the "goal" of an MBA internship. Therefore, in the spirit of blogging (to live a more reflect live) and to make my friends feel better about my chances after I finish here and try....]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2008 21:48:25 PST</pubDate><guid>http://www.squaremethod.com/blog/blog.php?id=176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Double-Edged MBA]]></title><link>http://www.squaremethod.com/blog/blog.php?id=171</link><description><![CDATA[The days of "quantity time" are over. My wife currently lives in another state. I work a lot (but not as much as at Darden), and feel overwhelmed (just like at Darden). What must this mean? You guessed it... My summer internship has begun, and I'm officially employed by a bulge-bracket investment bank.

My title at the moment is "cross-functional MBA summer associate" - which basically means that whatever job the SVP's on my floor want done, gets handed to me. It's a lot of fun, but de....]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 20:33:10 PST</pubDate><guid>http://www.squaremethod.com/blog/blog.php?id=171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Value of "Quantity Time"]]></title><link>http://www.squaremethod.com/blog/blog.php?id=166</link><description><![CDATA[Over the past few years I have been very busy, perhaps busier than at any other period of my life. Over the past few years I have also been married (and my anniversary is coming up on the 29th). This has presented a very unique set of challenges to my wife and I. How are we going to stay connected with one another? How do I convince my wife that I care about her even when I choose to stay at school, work, etc. until late in the night? You get the idea.

Typically our answer to these qu....]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 08:18:32 PST</pubDate><guid>http://www.squaremethod.com/blog/blog.php?id=166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Darden First Year Quarters 3 & 4 In Pictures]]></title><link>http://www.squaremethod.com/blog/blog.php?id=165</link><description><![CDATA[In truth I should have been doing this on a more regular basis, but better late than never I say... I updated my photo gallery on the left side with pictures from some of my more memorable occasions of the last semester. Oh yeah, and this time I added comments to every photo as well.

Hopefully this will make the entire gallery a lot more coherent and enjoyable to flip through.]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 11:01:07 PST</pubDate><guid>http://www.squaremethod.com/blog/blog.php?id=165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ask Not What Darden Can Do For You, But What...]]></title><link>http://www.squaremethod.com/blog/blog.php?id=164</link><description><![CDATA[The following essay was what I submitted to Darden in response to the question they ask everyone, "What have you done during the past year to add value to Darden, UVA in general, and the Charlottesville community?"

"My commitment to becoming fully immersed in the community of Charlottesville, the broader University, and Darden in particular is rooted in the circumstances surrounding my admittance to the school. After being disappointed by the lack of emphasis on real learning at many ....]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 17:46:21 PST</pubDate><guid>http://www.squaremethod.com/blog/blog.php?id=164</guid></item></channel></rss>