Another Friday has arrived, and with it a new edition of FFF! Let’s take a look at the last seven days’ happenings in the MBA blogosphere.
On the applicant front, many are still focused on the GMAT; Math_Guru is buckling down on verbal section studying (unsurprising, given his name) for a relatively remote exam date, while GuyMBA is just a week away from test day (good luck!). Meanwhile, Kent Torokvei is making progress on a number of application-related tasks and Forrest Gump realizes he’ll have to do some sprinting to make the R1 deadlines. Anand has also been getting around, and offers a great recap of his recent Tuck visit. We were glad to read that Reveur, on the other hand, seems to have found all of the HBS info he needs in one place. Speaking of that program, Juggler made a timely discovery with respect to Harvard’s data forms and plans to revisit her essays for that school. She’s also taken the time to offer her take on this year’s Chicago (“ultra cool,” eh?) and Kellogg essays.
Though it was a quiet week for the applicants (all hard at work on their applications, no doubt), the student bloggers found quite a bit to talk about. Newly published rankings and statistics provided some fodder: Jacek celebrated ESADE’s #1 ranking in the 2006 WSJ list of international MBAs, DingProof celebrated UNC’s #8 status in the list of U.S. schools, and Keven explores the positive implications of Wisconsin’s latest recruiting results. On that subject, Angel Angie offers some great advice for job seekers based on her own experience interacting with prospective consulting hires, and also comments about taking advantage of the many extracurricular opportunities at LBS (with potentially disastrous consequences). Most of the London bloggers seem to agree that it’s been a low key week, as KV did some surfing in Cornwall, Stephen describes an end-of-orientation volunteer day, and Martha describes her experience in her first few LBS classes. Sean notes that this is likely the calm before the storm, and Karlitos echoes this sentiment and considers how he’ll manage his assignments and outside involvements.
While Creative-nits already has 16.66ect.% of his IIM MBA behind him, most first-year students are still getting settled and adjusting. InvisibleInk is still squaring away his finances at INSEAD, UCLADawg relates some entertaining elements of Week 1 at Anderson, Ashwyn is finding remembering how to be a student somewhat trying at IESE pre-term, LL is finding the Wharton workload to be a shock to the system, and Sam is still straightening out his volleyball serve at Sloan. Also speaking of adjustments, Kilgore Trout is getting ready to spend some time on the other side of the application process as an Admissions Officer at McCombs. Hallonman, meanwhile, is getting acclimated and offers his take on the faculty and student experience at INSEAD, and his classmate DomoDomo weighs in on the school’s academics, social scene and setting. BeenThereDoneThat makes note of some interesting cultural differences between those in India and his NUS classmates, and Paxti revels in the overall LBS student culture.
Second-year students are undergoing some adjustments of their own. With a job offer in hand, j$ had to work hard to find the resolve to excel at Haas this semester. Similarly, IESE student George seems to be having such a great time on exchange in NY that he’s having trouble focusing on his Columbia coursework. Finally, the Divine Miss N seems to be settling in to life in New York, and recounts her experiences this past week – complete with a chance meeting with our own Alex Brown!
That does it for this week. Best of luck to everyone working on their applications and settling into school; have a good weekend!
