Fridays are always a mixed bag as some weeks we have company led applied learning sessions or a golf tournament like today. Unfortunately, I was unable to play today, but somebody will post about the event next week. Last night, General Mills visited campus and took many of us to dinner at Magnus to give us their spiel. Three of the presenters were CBPM grads—Ryan Stalker (MBA ’05), Andy Freedman (MBA ’06) and Christina Zwicky (MBA ’07)—so it was nice to meet them and get their perspective on careers in brand management. I have to say the best part of speaking with each of them was their openness and honesty regarding the company and the opportunities. Each has a vested interest in seeing us succeed and were more than happy to answer questions however crazy they might be.

I think we all agreed that there was some risk in coming to Wisconsin for school as the program is still relatively young, but meeting people like Ryan, Andy, and Christina only reaffirmed my decision more. Following dinner, we headed to TAPS, which is essentially MBA Happy Hour every Thursday. The General Mills crowd joined us as well and it turns out that Andy still had a tab running at Genna’s so he was good to go. Wisconsin football has a bye this weekend so everybody was making plans for the weekend. Rumors have it that some fellow MBAers are having a Keg Kickball Tournament this weekend. If that is not a recipe for disaster I don’t know what is.

Off to catch a plane to Phoenix (with a UW bye I have to watch football some place), have a great weekend.