Random Walks - Costa Rica

Overview

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Itinerary Description

Get ready for both lazy luxury and exciting excursions on this week-long journey to Costa Rica. The first half of our stay will be at a resort in Arenal, where we will explore the Rio Balsa with a day of whitewater rafting and enter the vertical world with a canyoning and rappelling tour. We then shift into a slower pace with a transfer to Central Guanacaste where we will enjoy a serene beach day, a snorkeling cruise, and delicious meals. Surrounded by the pristine scenery of Costa Rica, you'll be able to unplug from the daily grind and truly appreciate life on this trip.

Preliminary Itinerary*

Dates: Friday, August 30 to Thursday, September 5, 2024

View the Costa Rica itinerary via TourHero.

*Activities and hotel selections subject to change.

KEY DATES

April 19
Random Walks Fair

April 22
Virtual Random Walks Fair

April 22
Online registration opens

April 25
Trip registrations suspended

April 26
Waitlist registration begins

Late May
Trip notifications

Mid June

Waitlist placements begin

Late June
Waitlist registration deadline

August 29- Sept 3:
Trips depart

Trip Leaders

Simran Rastogi

E-mail: simran.rastogi@chicagobooth.edu

Hometown: Albany, NY

Undergrad College: Cornell University Undergrad Major: Mechanical Engineering

Work Experience: Construction Management →

Corporate Strategy/Operations, maybe PE?

Booth Concentrations: Operations, Strategy, Behavioral Science

2023 Random Walk: None :’(

Hobbies: Climbing fake rocks, stress baking, watching dog videos, turning into a villain every time I play board games with George and Connor, blasting Taylor Swift with Nikita while “meal prepping” but then eating 3 servings of food at once, singing along to every song I know even if I’m in public

Fun Facts: My birthday is 9/6/96 and my sister’s is 9/4/94; I know way too much about how 20 foot long steel bridges are made; I worked on the National Air & Space Museum renovation in DC; I taught George that Peru was not in Europe and Costa Rica was not a US territory.

George Situ

E-mail: hsitu@chicagobooth.edu

Hometown: Los Angeles

Undergrad College: Carnegie Mellon University Undergrad Major: Chemical Engineering/Business

Work Experience: Sales in Manufacturing; Software Engineering @ Deutsche Bank

Booth Concentrations: Entrepreneurship, Analytics, Management, Economics

2023 Random Walk: Vietnam (w/ Nikita)

Hobbies: Basketball, board games, hustling in poker to pay for business school, reminding Connor he used to be Mormon, making Simran spend 5 hours baking to flex in an interview

Fun Facts: Tried starting a business selling pinatas - failed. Started a business selling safety equipment - meh. Started a consulting business on logistics - good. Working on some NVC ideas - BILLIONS.

I get drunk on two shots. They call me Asian Spice when I turn red. I’ve been permabanned in Club Penguin and League

Nikita Shaiva

E-mail: nshaiva@chicagobooth.edu

Hometown: Bedminster, NJ

Undergrad College: Dartmouth College Undergrad Major: Cognitive Science

Work Experience: Tech Consulting @ Adobe; Product Management @ Optum; health-tech/AI startups

Booth Concentrations: Entrepreneurship, Strategic Management, Behavioral Science

2023 Random Walk: Vietnam (with George!)

Hobbies: Traveling, photography + photoshopping the heck out of photos, graphic design, asking George deep questions and not answering them back, procrastinating by inviting Simran over to “study” and then chatting/gaming till 2am instead, racket-sports

Fun Facts: 3 truths and a lie: I’ve hiked to the Mount Everest Base Camp. I’ve been hypnotized twice. I’ve met two U.S. Presidents. I lived in Fargo, North Dakota.

Connor Robbins

E-mail: crobbin0@chicagobooth.edu

Hometown: Salt Lake City, Utah

Undergrad College: University of Utah (GO UTES!) Undergrad Major: Finance

Work Experience: Investment Management (Equity Research)

Booth Concentrations: Finance, Behavioral Science, Strategic Management

2023 Random Walk: None… A very big regret :(

Hobbies: Trying to convince everyone my whole personality is not just finance and soccer, answering sooo many questions about Utah culture, giving George tips to improve his (low?) EQ, seeing how long it will take before Simran gets annoyed at an excessive amount of dumb jokes (have not succeeded yet), wearing a shark onesie on Halloween (see picture to the right)

Fun Facts: My dad was a professional tennis player, I was recently informed I have been tying my tie incorrectly basically forever (I am 29 years old…), I went to the high school where High School Musical was filmed