1 EUR = 1.2693 USD

Rats. In the same way that I can’t not pick a scab, not reread a love letter from 10 years ago, not reply to an e-mail to which I absolutely shouldn’t reply, not engage in verbal sparring with a telemarketing agent, I can’t not continue to check the EUR/USD rate. Too many double negatives.

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1 EUR = 1.2867 USD

I feel a little numb, but at least I’m done checking the exchange rate every minute.  I’ve just wired 30,000 EUR to INSEAD at the last possible moment.  I’m pretty sure they wouldn’t have noticed until a month or two later if I hadn’t paid.  And then I could have spent another month or two [...]

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[Bonding over] being broke

I dated this guy in grad school.  Let’s call him Jon the Pervert.  That’s what all my friends would call him to distinguish him from Jon the Douche who was an uber-smooth HBS grad and Married John who was… well… married.    Jon the Pervert got his name after I found out that for the 6 [...]

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[Getting my panties in a bunch over] women’s role in management

When the INSEAD Dog and Pony show came to my town last winter, a very perky cheerleader-type spent about an hour telling a room full of men how hard INSEAD is working to recruit women.  The current class has somewhere just south of 30% women in the class, a several point improvement over the previous [...]

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[The nightmare of] financing an INSEAD MBA

In the same cheery e-mail that informed me of my acceptance at INSEAD, I also learned that the non-sponsored students (those like me whose company is not about to foot the bill) would be paying a tuition of 50,000 EUR.  Actually, that’s not quite right.  The extra special nice touch is that the original e-mail [...]

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