High-Tech Trek: Boston

I just wanted to tell you all about the week that I had last week!  We only had two days of classes but it was still one of the busiest weeks that I've had to date here at Johnson!  It's funny when you are a prospective and you hear "yeah we only have classes three days a week" and you immediately think "oh you must have a lot of free time then?"  Nope Nope... that's definitely NOT the case!  Because of the great timing of the Boston Trek, some of us decided to stay over another night and go to the Cyberposium being held at HBS on Saturday.  So my experience will contain information from that as well, but for all prospectives out there, just know that this was not part of the trek.

So here goes my week (I'll add pictures from the Boston Trek and Cyberposium when I aggregate them all from my classmates)

Monday - October 31st
7:50am - 8:20am - Strategy Quiz
8:40am - 9:55am - Statistics Class
10:10am - 11:25am - Finance Class
11:55am - 1:10pm - Strategy Class
2:00pm - 3:00pm - Met with a prospective student (blog reader) in the Atrium
4:00pm - 4:30pm - Met with some classmates who were participating in Battle of The Brands
6:00pm - 7:30pm - High-Tech Club Social at Statler Hotel
7:30pm - 9:00pm - Finance Review Session

Tuesday - November 1st

7:50am - 8:20am - Finance Quiz

8:40am - 9:55am - Statistics Class

10:10am - 11:25am - Finance Class

11:55am - 1:10pm - Strategy Class

3:15pm - 3:45pm - Meet with classmate to discuss Tech recruiting strategies

6:15pm - 7:45pm - Hewlett Packard Corporate Briefing

Wednesday - November 2nd - "Day Off"

10:30am - 11:00am - Career Discussion with the Career Management Center

11:00am - 12:00pm - Core Group Feedback Session

12:00pm - 12:30pm - Informational Call with a Coast Company

1:00pm - 3:00pm - Core group meeting to complete Statistics Assignment

6:00pm - 6:45pm - High-Tech Club Boston Trek prep meeting

7:30pm - 9:30pm - Student Council internal elections!  (I was voted to be Technology Chair)

10:30pm - 1:00am - Student Council celebration at Level B (Dance club in Ithaca)

Thursday - November 2nd - "Boston Trek" - Day 1

2:00am - 4:00am - Did laundry and packed for the High Tech Club Boston Trek

6:00am - 12:30pm - Drove to Boston with some classmates to visit the first company - EMC

12:30pm - 2:30pm - EMC company visit

3:15pm - 5:30pm - Red Hat company visit

7:30pm - 12:00am - Networking dinner with Johnson alums and classmates

Friday - November 3rd - "Boston Trek" - Day 2

9:30am - 10:30am - Microsoft company visit

11:00am - 12:00pm - Liberty Mutual company visit with Johnson alumni Panel

12:00pm - 2:00pm - Lunch

3:00pm - 5:30pm - HubSpot company visit

________________Official End of Boston Trek___________________

5:30pm - 6:30pm - Walk around aimlessly in Cambridge looking for our parking garage

7:00 pm - Check into new hotel

7:00pm - 7:30pm - Work on resume in hotel

7:30pm - 8:15pm - Prepare for dinner at Legal Seafood with a friend I met at the Reaching Out Conference who goes to HBS.

8:15pm - 8:30pm - hop in cab and go to Legal Seafoods

8:30pm - 8:45pm - Realized that we were at Legal Seafoods in Kendall Park? and not Copley Place

8:45pm - 9:00pm - took a cab from Legal Seafoods to the other one in Copley Place, but ended up at the one by the Prudential Center

9:00pm - 9:05pm - Walked to the correct Legal Seafoods

9:05pm - 11:00pm - Had dinner with my two classmates and my friend from HBS and his partner

11:00pm - 12:00am - Had some Wine at their apartment

12:00am - 2:00am - Found a bar "Lolita" in some neighborhood with my two classmates.

Saturday - November 4rd - Harvard Business School Cyberposium

9:00am - 10:00am - Eat Breakfast

10:00am - 11:00am - Find parking at HBS

11:15am -11:30am - Stand in the back of the eCommerce panel at the Cyberposium

11:30am - 11:40am - email another friend who goes to HBS to let him know that I saw him in the previous session.  We shared the same GMAT tutor and had met in the city at a happy hour earlier this year.

11:40am 11:45am - Turns out that friend that I emailed, sat right behind me for the next Keynote session so we caught up for 5 minutes.

11:45am - 12:35pm - Keynote speech by Katie Mitic - Director, Platform and Mobile at Facebook

12:45pm - 1:30pm - Lunch, which was fun because my GMAT Tutor brethren ate with my classmates and I.  On the way to walking to lunch I saw my OTHER friend from HBS.  She's a fellow MLT alum and was incredibly surprised to see me.  I didn't really tell any of my HBS friends that I would be at their campus.

Here is where I'd like to make a shout out to my new friend who goes to Tuck.  He recognized me from my blog and came up to me to speak.  I never really know what to say when people come up to me and tell me that they've read my blog, but it's always nice!  We talked a couple times throughout the day and hopefully our paths will cross again.  I'm sure they will.

1:30pm - 2:25pm - Future of Online Advertising Panel

2:40pm - 3:30pm - Mobile Advertising Panel

3:40pm - 4:30pm - CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment of America, Keynote Speech

4:30pm - 5:00pm - Networking reception.  I ran in to some another person I met at Destination Business School, who now goes to Wharton, which was held by Kaplan last year in NYC.  Here is the blog post I made last year about it - Destination Business School

6:00pm - 12:am - Drive back to Ithaca!

So needless to say - I had an incredibly busy week!