Welcome to this week’s edition of FFF! While last week was an exceptionally sleepy one, we’re glad to see that our blogger friends are back in action and documenting their MBA-related endeavors.
One very popular topic among incoming students this week has been housing; Paxti arrived in London rather early for flat-hunting at LBS, and Angel Angie is about to join the apartment search fray after a minor travel debacle. Meanwhile, Marina is slowly getting settled in NYC, DomoDomo enjoyed his final farewell party and is on his way to INSEAD, and Brownoski is counting down to his arrival in New Haven. Axechick has just finished up her pre-Columbia internship and we’re glad to hear that she feels well served by the experience. FooBarMe, on the other hand, is just getting started part-time at Berkeley and finds himself reeling at the cost (he might want to read up Angel Angie’s recap of a particularly creative MBA financing strategy); it sounds like he’ll decide it’s worth it, though, based on his comments about Haas orientation. Joint degree student Rahul is already in the midst of accounting at Kellogg, and new FFF addition Perpetual Motion has just started at Wharton and has hit the blogging ground running with some thoughts on the program’s admissions policies.
Speaking of admissions, Tuck-bound Vatsa took some time this week to share five tips for IT applicants and veteran blogger Forrest Gump commented about the benefits of introspection in the application process. While a select few have received positive waitlist news lately, all is said and done for last season as far as most applicants are concerned, and a number of bloggers are turning their attention to reapplying. Based on some feedback from Duke and a list of potential improvements, Bschool Diva is pushing her application back to class of 2010, but most – including fellow reapplicant Rusgirl – are planning their to do lists for fall 2006 application. Nivi is another one working at whittling down her checklist for Duke reapplication and UniQpath has refined her roster of target schools and is taking stock of the work this will entail, while a more relaxed Hallonman is taking in the sights. GuyMBA also seems to be in good shape given that he’s finished a full set of essays and is now focusing on the GMAT, a task that Brian plans to tackle as soon as he’s finished with undergrad.
Current students and recent grads have been comparably quiet. Al Martine checked in from an internship in India and offers his thoughts on the summer away from LBS. FutureMBAGirl (time for a new name, Wharton grad!) said her farewell to Philadelphia and arrived in California, and Marquis surfaces to document Phil Knight’s big gift to Stanford and offers ongoing case interview assistance to MBA students with their eyes on careers in consulting.
That does it for this week! We hope that everyone has a wonderful weekend!
