A funny thing happened this Thanksgiving, Columbia. That three-year-old Standard Issue question of "How's school?"—asked so often by friends, relatives, and kids you're happy you haven't seen since 12th grade— suddenly changed. It turns out that I'm a senior now, a fact which I'm more willing to blame on some kind of portal* in my McBain double than on the normal passage of time. But whatever the reason, the thing my relatives, friends, and former acquaintances wanted to know most (or pretended to want to know most) over this break was, "What are you doing next year?"
I've already written about my plans for graduate school, but I wanted to take this opportunity to write about what seemed to be the most common answers to that question this Thanksgiving—finance and consulting.
