Welcome to another edition of FFF, where your friendly Clear Admit team members chronicle all the latest news from the MBA blogosphere! As the New York Times says “all the news that’s fit to print”, our FFF authors like to say “all the blogs that are fit for news” (or something like that).
We kick this week’s post with a rash of MBA student postings from Europe, where the MBA Tournament/Olympics has been prominently covered. Bloggers from the winning program were very happy to report from the games: rsr.pt does a run down of the highlights from the MBA-T weekend, KV reports the results (and promises gossip and pics) and Guillaume posts a victory photo while promising a more complete run-down of the results in the forthcoming Official LBS Blog (yes, you heard right, a school-sanctioned blog)! Beyond the LBS bloggers checking in about their victory, George offered his take on the weekend from the IESE viewpoint and Cambridge MBA admit Amit delves into the finer points of the MBA-T rules for cricket.
Moving beyond the fun and games of MBA-T, we find a number of b-school students (and admits) offering commentary on various aspects of their programs. Angel Angie and Hobbes alert readers to an interesting “day in the life” video about LBS, Auris checks in with an update about P3 at INSEAD (and a decision to spend P4+5 in Singapore), IESE MBA2007 highlights the academic craziness of the next two weeks while Noelle chimes in with her thoughts on the end of the hectic third term at IESE. Finally, FutureGuru offers a couple of great posts on the LBS marketing conference and electives selection while Olivier closes the book on his job search from INSEAD and alerts readers of his decision to join BCG.
In other b-school blogging news, Grik checks in with some comments on finance coursework from the University of Melbourne‘s MBA program, Buckyhoo has an internship update from UNC and Yale student Jerry Blank discusses summer internship life in NYC (including amusing anecdotes about the HR department at his firm and the art of losing belts at nightclubs). Heading to the West Coast, we find UCLA student H.Caulfield checking in with an explanation about just how hard Anderson students typically work. Rounding out our student bloggers section for the week, we’d like to highlight an informative post from Rahul, who’s just finished up his first year in Kellogg/Northwestern’s JD/MBA program.
Turning to the admitted applicant bloggers, we find numerous posts with helpful comments on matriculation. Curious George offers an update on the Kroll background check process at Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, Jacek summarizes his pre-ESADE summer plans (with plenty of World Cup commentary), Ashwyn discusses the loans/financing process at IESE and Karlitos, who was recently admitted to LBS, talks about the scholarship application process. Finally, Yale-admit Brownowski contemplates a one-year deferral but ultimately decides to attend the SOM this fall.
We’ll wind down this action-packed edition of FFF with some news from the newest crop of applicants: the Class of 2009. As would be expected at this time of year, GMAT prep is on everyone’s mind. Kooljaek talks about the final countdown to the exam, a disappointing result and offers some interesting ‘why MBA’ thoughts in between. Stress Tensor reports to have finished all the problems in the Official Guide to the GMAT, taken a practice exam and performed well on the actual test day while offering some pertinent thoughts on the rest of the application process. Beyond the GMAT applicants are also thinking about the big issues: median2K9 ponders his career goals, need for the MBA and more while Juggler has just left the starting gate in the race for her admission to a top MBA program and ScareCrow makes the move from blog reader to blog-er.
That’s the latest news from the MBA blogosphere. Congrats to Marquis (who may win yet another award to put on the shelf with his BoB). Also, we’re not sure what to make of this (an MBA professor enters the blogosphere or a hoax?) so please stay tuned. Have a great weekend everyone!
