"Over a poulet de grain rôti at La Goulue, on Madison Avenue, he added: 'I'd always loved New York and felt like I knew it, but I'd never actually been here. My main exposure to it came from 'Sex and the City' and 'Friends.' " That's parkavenuepeerage.com blogger and New York magazine fact-checking intern James Kurisunkal, batting his lashes at the Times today. But is he really a hayseed who knows nothing about NYC that he didn't glean from Carrie and Rachel?

Rachael Klein is a member of Georgetown's MBA class of 2008, and in her year of business school, she has learned quite a lot. "I am informed. In a few (and I mean a very few) cases, I am informed, more so than my PhD mother, MD father, and CPA grandfather. I know more about (a very few) certain things now than they do. I am pursuing information in a field that is beyond informed common knowledge." Congratulations, Rachael! But as she heads into her New York City ("the City") summer internship, there are a few areas in which, Rachael admits, her knowledge is still lacking. "Will my suit be the wrong color? Do East Coast professionals wear black in the summer? Do women wear bright colors to a bank? Are they going to ask me to figure out how to calculate arbitrage with bonds (something we learned but I need to "review," to say the least)? How do I prepare? Oh, and are white shoes a screaming faux pas?" We don't know about the white shoes, Rache, but being a pompous little know-it-all twit is generally frowned upon.

One Intern: Informed And Insecure [BusinessWeek]