Tough competition

Today I really felt on my skin what competition really is.

I organized an event for the General Management Association (a club from Columbia Business School where I am an associate vice-president), about careers in General Management and how to recruit for them.
I scheduled this event around TWO MONTHS ago.

Two weeks ago, Professor Stiglitz, who is a Nobel Prize in Economics and Professor at Columbia Business School, decided to hold a debate about the current economic environment exactly on the same day, at the same time and on the same floor at school.

This afternoon I was scared that nobody would show up to my event.
Fortunately, some people here are more "action oriented" and decided to learn how to do better in recruiting instead of hearing more about the current economic crisis.

At the end my room was full, and I was happy!

Rui

PS - Actually, I was very sad I could not attend Stiglitz's debate...

Here is the flyer advertising my event

Go Lions!!!!

Columbia University makes part of the Ivy League.
The Ivy League is a group of 8 universities in the USA that have a great connotation of academic excellence and academic rigor. Columbia, Princeton, Harvard, Dartmouth and Yale, make part of the Ivy League.

The Ivy League has a sports league of its own.

Yesterday, for the first time, I went to see the Columbia basketball team (the Lions) play. The game was against Dartmouth.

The Lions won 65-52.

Tonight the Lions are playing again, this time against Harvard.
Cheerleaders. They do exist!





Ting, Jeff and I
Caption: CBS loves Lions (CBS = Columbia Business School)

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Pus o bacalhau de molho 3 dias, e parece que foi demais...estragou-se!!
Mal empregados os meus 30 dolares...

O queijo da serra emigrou para o frigorifico. Assim evita-se a propagacao do seu perfume pela casa.

Rui

PS - Sorry, but his post only made sense written in Portuguese

The smell

Remeber the Queijo da Serra in the picture of the previous post?

Well, I just opened it the other day and have been keeping it outside the fridge, and its beautiful and active smell has started perfuming the house.
I hope my Turkish roomate doesn't mind some nice Portuguese smell straight from Serra da Estrela.

Newark visit

Newark is a small city in the state of New Jersey, about 30 minutes away from New York City.
Newark has a big Portuguese immigrant community, so it is quite natural to see Portuguese restaurants, supermarkets and all types of services with banners written in Portuguese.

My brother had to go to Ikea, which is in Newark, last Saturday and we couldn't go there without doing some Portuguese food shopping.
Here is a picture of what I bought.


From left to right:
- atum Bom Petisco
- queijo da Serra
- Nestum
- Chocapic ( I like the fact that the box says - Atencao: mais chocolate)
- bacalhau
- chourico

Missing in the picture:
- 12 pasteis de nata, that disappeared in 2 days :D