Welcome to another edition of FFF, your weekly recap of new and noteworthy happenings in the MBA blogosphere. We can only assume that the applicant bloggers are hard at work on their essays and other materials given their relative silence over the past seven days, though a few have checked in to update hangers on of their progress. Suser McLoser reported that her story and message are finally coming together, and shared some excellent strategies for identifying specific anecdotes and general themes in one’s candidacy. Juggler rightly celebrated the completion of five applications by her self-imposed deadlines and also shared her thoughts on Harvard’s essays, whereas UniQpath came up for air with a brief comment after finishing her first draft for HBS. Meanwhile, TJ has finished the essays for Kellogg and is wondering where to focus his attention next, while ScareCrow just submitted Part One of that school’s application and is currently focusing on recommendations.
While some first-year students are already very much in the swing of things (BeenThereDoneThat has already completed a month of classes at NUS), most are still easing into the business school experience. For instance, Jacek is still getting used to being back in the classroom during pre-term at ESADE and Benny shares a number of things that surprised him about his first week of class at Tuck. NoKeating reports that he is tremendously impressed with an accounting prof at Kelley after just four class sessions, and Princess echoes his positive sentiment and breaks the news that this beloved Indiana faculty member will be taking time off for health reasons. Outside of the classroom, Angel Angie finds herself with a good deal of free time in London thanks to passing out of statistics, while her LBS classmates Martha and Sean have checked in with some comments about preparing CVs for recruiting and a unique personal development program (respectively). London students aren’t the only ones who are already thinking about career concerns: Hallonman received the results of a job interest survey during career day at INSEAD, Kilgore Trout sounds a bit disoriented by the prevalence of career fairs so early in the term at Austin but has reached an important conclusion about the sort of environment he is seeking, while Brownoski also learned a fair amount about jobs that do and don’t interest him during a career immersion event at Yale. DomoDomo has also been very busy summarizing his first week at INSEAD, describing the school’s social scene and the international makeup of his class, among other topics. Finally, UCLADawg won’t even begin orientation until next week, but has nonetheless been hard at work preparing for the start of his academic career at Anderson.
Second-year students are also finding their stride now that they’re back in school, and Sam has reached a new level of focus on his studies at MIT. Others are still thinking back to the summer, as Mbwana has written a nice summary of what he took away from his Microsoft internship and Jerry Blank relates the exciting (and entertaining!) news that he’ll be returning to Yale with a job offer in hand.
That does it for this week. Have a great weekend!
