RaceSco MBAlog

This site belongs to Scott Sanders, a 2004 graduate of Cornell University's Johnson School of Management. It chronicles two years in a top MBA program -- academic, career, social, and everything in between. Blogging was a way of sharing the MBA experience with colleagues, friends, family, and others who were interested. Scroll through the posts -- there's more than a few interesting tidbits.

Thursday, March 04, 2004

A tale of two Bills

Well, it seems that a ticket to see Bill Gates at Cornell gets you... placed out on the street.



I went to the lecture with some classmates, and we arrived about 30 minutes early. We figured that since we had tickets, it would be plenty of time to be seated. Nope.

"Reserved" ticketholders streamed into the room, past us common ticketholders waiting in line. They seemed to be mostly faculty and staff of the university, not students. We waited in line, then were turned away just a few minutes before the speech. So, we went back to Sage Hall to see Gates via closed circuit television. But that room was full too, since we waited in line for so long. Damn.

Now for the second Bill. After hearing rumors of this for a few weeks, this morning, Cornell announced that Bill Clinton will be a graduation speaker. How cool. I just hope it doesn't turn out like the other Bill's talk.
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