Welcome to this week’s edition of FFF! It’s been a quiet week in the MBA blogosphere, but there’s still a bit of news to report. On the applicant front, it’s the time of year that accepted students entering school in the fall are giving notice (Paxti has mixed feelings about leaving Google for LBS and Jacek seems a bit happier to be on his way to ESADE), thinking creatively about upcoming classes, getting their finances in order and looking back on the application process with a reflective eye. Along the latter lines, FoobarMe has offered some great tips on essay writing, stressing the importance of quantifying achievements and including illustrative detail. Meanwhile, Class of 2009 aspirants are expressing their appreciation for this kind of advice from seasoned veterans and for the blogging community in general. In other application preparation news, UniQpath is putting together a timeline and plan of attack, while ScareCrow ponders the one versus two year MBA issue.
As is generally the case this time of year, the student bloggers are winding down as the applicants focus on beginnings. Wonderchild wrote of being finished up with Tuck and GSB Mennonite tackled his final final at Chicago, and KV is getting ready to take on his last exam at LBS. As the semester concludes, the Divine Miss N summarizes a list of interesting visitors to London and comments more broadly on her classes and activities as the semester winds down, while classmate rsr.pt paints a slightly more perilous picture of the final few weeks at school. Indeed, outside of academics, students are enjoying themselves – L’Optimiste completed a 10k charity walk at INSEAD and classmate Olivier provides a detailed breakdown on the Fontainebleau social scene, while Noelle recounts an informal IESE film festival and is looking forward to a quiet weekend in Barcelona. An exception to all this talk of endings on the student front is Brit-Chick, who has just started a summer internship and vowed to revive her blog while at Wharton.
That does it for this week. Have a wonderful weekend, everyone!
