Random Walks - Iceland

Overview

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Itinerary Description

Iceland, known as the land of fire and ice, is like no other place on earth. Devoid of trees but filled with the true beauty of nature. Small and rocky, but with volcanos, geysers, and glaciers that remind you of the power of our planet. And at its core is Reykjavik, a vibrant city with a wide variety of restaurants and music; a city that builds a nightlife culture around those dark winter months that explodes with fun in the summer.

Preliminary Itinerary*

Dates: Sunday, September 2 to Sunday, September 8, 2024

View the Iceland itinerary via WorldStrides.

*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

Jose Carlos Montalvo

E-mail: jmontalvo@chicagobooth.edu

Hometown: Arequipa, Peru

Undergrad College: UPC (in Peru)

Undergrad Major: Economics & Finance

Work Experience: IB & Corporate Finance→ Consulting??

Booth Concentrations: we will find out in 2025

2023 Random Walk: South Africa

Hobbies: Asking “Alexa Play Bad Bunny”, Cycling (don’t try it the Chicago Winter), running to catch the Metra, Cooking?, forcing Ricardo to make impulsive decisions, watching F1 (Go Checo!), missing Peruvian food on a daily basis

Fun Facts: Injured playing bowling (got a cast in the leg), don’t eat fish (never tried Ceviche in my life), I am colorblind (red and green is a no go in my presentations)

Lydia Wang

E-mail: ywang48@chicagobooth.edu

Hometown: Hard question for me .. Edmonton, Alberta, Canada / Atlanta, GA

Undergrad College: UCLA

Undergrad Major: Economics, Global Studies

Work Experience: Deloitte Consulting (specifically Media & Entertainment) → Tech/VC

Booth Concentrations: I’ll be whatever you want me to be (within reason)

2023 Random Walk: South Africa

Hobbies: following Jose around, creating digital art, running to catch the Metra (Metra cinderella), skulking around campus as a part of the silent 200, bed rotting

Fun Facts: I have a fake tooth, cows are my favorite animal because they are both cute & nutritious, highlight of my life was being invited onstage/backstage for Ne-Yo

Lucy Wang

E-mail: lucyw120@chicagobooth.edu

Hometown: Holmdel, New Jersey

Undergrad College: University of Chicago (triple Maroon because I’m also dual degree MS in Computer Science??  )

Undergrad Major: Economics, minor Visual Arts

Work Experience: Asset Management, Fintech → Tech

Booth Concentrations: Management? Entrepreneurship? Concentrating on surviving

2023 Random Walk: Morocco–do not bring up “tagines” to me

Hobbies:  Painting, boxing, singing (questionable abilities), dancing (also questionable), following Lydia around, complaining about the carpet in my MPP apartment, vegetating

Fun Facts: I have been in the top 0.5% of Adele listeners worldwide on Spotify for 2022 and 2023. I was born in a snowstorm in Minnesota and my Chinese name means “King Snow”; can’t wait to be in Iceland, my natural habitat

Ricardo Cortijo

E-mail: rcortijo@chicagobooth.edu

Hometown: Lima, Peru

Undergrad College: Universidad del Pacifico (in Peru)

Undergrad Major: Economics, major in Finance

Work Experience: Wealth Management and IB → Consulting

Booth Concentrations: only God knows

2023 Random Walk: Turkey (top 3 trips of my life)

Hobbies: reading (trying to keep up with the pace previous to Booth -almost impossible-), dancing, doubting, cooking, and forcing myself not to accept every plan Jose proposes

Fun Facts: I once had to hop on a "songthaew" full of Buddhist monks to get down from a temple in the highlands because I had no other means of transportation, I can never recognize people’s accents, Love cats (have two, Mambo and Baloo)