I always wanted to go to this tournament hosted by Duke University each year in North Carolina. Even before I began business school I’d heard about it, but since coming to Berkeley I haven’t been able to get a Haas team together because we’re a small business school and there just isn’t the interest, Read More
Darren Miao and I decided to go ice climbing with an outfit called Sierra Mountain Guides. I have a fair bit of experience on ice and rock in the mountains, but I’d never tried technical ice climbing – the steepest I’ve climbed before would have been around 50-60 degrees. Our destination was a one, Read More
Amazingly, I’d never done the most San Francisco of things and walked across the Golden Gate Bridge. We had some mild Spring weather in February so one weekend Adriana and I decided to finally do it. We started walking from my apartment in North Beach, and it was a good hike to the bridge, Read More
For the second and final year of b-school, I made the decision to move from East Bay into San Francisco. I started looking around with my friend Duncan Clendenin from school, but we couldn’t find any good two bedroom place for less than $2,500/month – well and truly out of our price range! We, Read More
One of the perks of my job as a student ambassador at the business school is that I get to travel to some of the MBA Admissions events around North America. In October I took a weekend trip to Toronto, Canada, to sit in on an MBA fair there. I wanted to get to, Read More
Adri and I took a day trip to Muir Woods, a park just on the north side of the Golden Gate Bridge in Marin County (ie. not far from San Francisco). Muir Woods contains a some of the largest coastal redwood trees in California – and they are HUGE! After a short hike through, Read More
Adriana and I took the opportunity of some fantastic Autumn weather and drove up to Mendocino on the northern California coast. Mendocino was lovely: a small town atop the sea cliffs with many cafes, artist’s studios etc. It was great to walk around the headland, spot for sea lions and watch the huge waves, Read More
Here’s a few pics from some of the festivities to celebrate the end of first year. Some of the highlights included a fantastic class banquet at the International House followed by an after-party at Brad’s place up above the school, and a bonfire on Ocean Beach one evening to celebrate Kristin Richmond’s birthday. , Read More
The Haas Wine Club took advantage of some of the good weather we were having in Spring and organized a tour through a handful of Sonoma County wineries. I can’t remember the wineries’ names but they were all high-end Gallo Wines brands – thanks to Joe Gallo (a classmate) for helping organize it! , Read More
My friend Jolien Blankestijn visited me from the Netherlands over Spring Break, and we decided to do a 9-day road trip through Nevada, Utah, Arizona and southern California. A fantastic sunset looking west from the Berkeley hills up above campus. Our first day on the road was a long one, driving all, Read More