F1 me: 09/01/2010 - 10/01/2010

finance lingo: "the data room"

Thought experiment: You open a bar called The Data Room ('Where bankers do models.'). Would it do better on the Lower East Side or Murray hill?

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at work ("drinking from a firehose")

Being overwhelmed at work feels like drinking from a firehose. I can't take the pressure!

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who moved my locus?

My locus of control is wherever you left it.

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directionally correct?

in banker-land, directionally correct is not okay, but circular functions are... this is the exact opposite of consulting!

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Life in SF (I)

My first week or so in SF was spent camped out at a cafe around the corner. I remember seeing this, giggling, and then remembering that I was a mac ad, too.

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hyphens

if you want to talk about 'pre_school' both with and without the hyphen, call it 'b-school'

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in theory

'like an astronomer looking for a star that only a mathematical calculation tells him exists' -W. Somerset Maugham

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giving teeth

Idioms! Whoever first said this one must have had a very funny imagination

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right.

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First day

As a first year, you should be a sponge. Absorb all the brilliant things people say. Clean up spills as necessary. And try not to get too bent out of shape when people wring you dry and suck all of the life out of you...I mean, uh. Just kidding!

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emotional baggage

'I accept you and your baggage. But your furniture has to go. Seriously. My apartment is too small for all four of us.'

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