Another week is behind us and with it comes the latest edition of FFF. It’s amazing how time flies when you’re applying to or attending business school (not to mention when you’re counseling aspiring MBAs).
We’ll kick off this week’s column with MBA applicant-blogger Ty Coon, who decided to apply to MIT in R1 after initially having put things off for R2. Of course, after racing to submit, Ty had the typical jitters over whether or not the application was as solid as it could have been (the discovery of a typo did not help his jitters, but our guess is that this minor error will not be a factor). Moving on to further discussion of application deadlines, we find RedWolf‘s posting about freedom from R1 and how he did absolutely nothing over the weekend (this posting initially reminded us of movie about doing nothing – or even a show). RedWolf also offers a plan of attack for R2 as well as some thoughts on interview invites at Wharton and Chicago. Speaking of interview invites, Pragmaticus got the nod from Wharton and is trying to decide whether or not he has a chance (try these tips to get you started).
In other applicant news, blogger Anand posted a full report on his alumni interview for Kellogg and PupStar78 updated readers on his application process and decision to add Wharton to the mix. Meanwhile, RusGirl reports on her experience at the Moscow World MBA Tour and describes the special INSEAD presentation that she talked herself into attending.
Heading into MBA student-blogger territory, we check back with Marquis (a second year at Stanford) who had some puzzling news from Bain as he moves forward in the strategy-consulting recruiting process. Marquis also offers readers an update on mid-terms at Stanford and the pressures in the second year. Moving on to the city of brotherly love, we here from Hella (a Wharton second-year) who is also in the throes of recruiting, coursework and his job in the MBA admissions office (interviewing candidates and reviewing applications). Rounding out the second-year set, we find Mark summarizing his experiences in DIP week at Harvard Business School. Although it was a relatively quiet blogging week on the first-year MBA student front, we did read some interesting postings from MBAwana, who summarized the latest news from Stanford and Ben Dehghan who talked about grading at Ross/Michigan.
We’ll close out this week’s installment of FFF with a look at bloggers attending non-US schools. Anders checks in from CEIBS in China, offering a peek at both the social and academic scenes on campus (as well as the tradition of ‘paper-dancing‘). If you think paper-dancing is interesting, then you will pleased to read TheDivineMissN’s posts entitled “useless facts about LBS” (part 1, part 2). For the more academically minded, KV checks in with an update on mid-terms at LBS. Heading south to Spain, we find IESE-MBA2007 blogging about life at IESE, including the tradition of ‘random dinners‘ between first and second year students. Finally, our last posting comes from Vijay at the Indian School of Business (ISB), where recruiting season is now in full swing.
That’s the blogging news from here. Have a great weekend everyone!
