Get Dunked: The SMIF family fun fair

To try and encourage MBA students to work for non-profits who, let's face it, don't pay quite as well as for-profits do (if at all!), we have the Stanford Management Internship Fund, or SMIF. SMIF basically subsidizes people who work for non-profits over summer so that they get the average salary rate - meaning that almost 10% of our year ends up working for non-profits! nice, but expensive (you do the math!) ...

To raise money and awareness of this, we try and get each other to donate money to the cause; and hold a bit of a fun fair: aptly entitle the SMIF carnival. There's fairy floss, jumping castles, sno cones ... and of course, the dunk tank.

I was "elected" to "sit in" on the dunk tank:







Whilst dunk tank water - even in the middle of spring - has a tendency to be extraordinarily cold - FREEZING! If it wasn't for charity, I would've asked for money to heat that thing (!) ... still, it was a great day. Plenty for us to smile about!