Oh, how I do love New York! Last week I went with the MBA girls to the first annual LDS MBA Conference. A group of guys at Wharton decided to put it all together and they did a fantastic job with about 150 attend for the first year. Not bad, I say. Cornell was the stage and New York was the backdrop. Because pics are much more fun than my ramblings I'll just get to it.
We stayed at a great hotel downtown. Just one problem...only one bed. Luckily, we discovered this before going so we packed an air mattress and a pump and had a very cozy weekend with the four of us in that tiny little room.
We had complications with our layover in Las Vegas, so instead of landing at midnight in New York, we arrived at 6am. Ouch. After getting some rest we hit the town. We dined at Carnegie Deli and then wandered down 5th Ave. This was perhaps the best (and hugest) corned beef sandwich I've ever eaten. However, the strawberry cheesecake still showed it up, I'm afraid.
Later we went to a networking event to meet fellow MBAers from around the country and followed up with some delicious Serendipity. My favorite was the cinnamon ice cream atop a piece of apple pie. Brilliant combination, is all I have to say about that. In case you are wondering about all this food intake, I will confirm that I gained 5 pounds over the weekend and I enjoyed every bite.
Saturday was filled with conference events. The highlight for me was listening to Clayton Christensen. Such a brilliant, spiritual and humble man. He had so many insightful things to share with us and I felt that his talk alone made the whole trip worth it. That night we all went to a Mets game. So fun and yet oh so cold! We lasted a few innings before we all bailed and headed over to Magnolia Bakery for some killer banana pudding and steamers.
On Sunday we went to church and then spent the rest of the day wandering around the city. We wandered all through central park, stopped off at the library and had dinner in Little Italy. I just love cities with great architecture so you'll have to humor me and my pictures of buildings.
The only thing I missed was wandering through Anthro. But I did get some great window shopping in. It's probably safer that way.
I have officially finished my first year of graduate school! I had one last project due this morning. My team and I stayed up on campus until 3:30 in the a.m. to turn around and come back by 8:00 a.m. BUT we presented and everything seemed to go well.
