Welcome to another edition of FFF, your weekly recap of the happenings in the MBA blogosphere. Let’s start of this week’s round up with a look at the student crowd.
While Angel Angie echoed the LBS adcom in briefly announcing the appointment of the new London dean, she also offers a detailed account of her impressions of her 6 LBS core classes. Indeed, the vast majority of student bloggers have been posting about their personal experiences in and outside of the classroom. Back from fall break, Benny summarizes what the coming term at Tuck will hold. Meanwhile, LL is in the thick of Q2 at Wharton, London student Al Martine celebrates a Spanish grade and Rubeo Boy is relieved by the end of midterms at Stern (but, unfortunately, less than thrilled with his grades). It’s clear that coursework and grades are on the minds of many, but the talk of academic matters has extended beyond tests and the classroom. George, on exchange from IESE, shares some thoughts on the Columbia faculty, FooBarMe relates an insight into the value of the framework of business education at Haas, and Tim K. recounts a rather entertaining “experiential learning” story from an operations assignment at McCombs.
Valuable experiences were had outside of the academic setting as well. With 12.5% of his MBA complete, MBA Gladiator is back from a trip to Chicago, and provides a great recap of the Yale trip to a Kellogg-hosted NetImpact Conference. DomoDomo took a jog and found himself reflecting on important topics like his objectives for his year at INSEAD, and other experiences in Fontainebleau ranged from Hallonman‘s forward-looking recruiting prep to Michael‘s Halloween fun.
UW student Sarah learned about her classmates at an MBA Women in Business retreat, while Noelle‘s personality assessment for a certain second year class at IESE shed some light on her own traits. Other student bloggers continue to learn about their schools as well as about business: Hallonman learned – the hard way – about the cold call at INSEAD, Edmundo reflects on what he loves about Owen, Ash shares some realizations about the benefits of GND at Stanford, and God only knows whether UCLADawg would have seen Brian Wilson in concert if he hadn’t taken advantage of the larger university opportunities Anderson affords.
Turning to the applicant bloggers, the usual topics have been popping up – Kent rejoices that he’s finished with R1 applications, AsianGal updates readers on her GMAT prep progress, -TVU plans some campus visits and Itobean approached a potential recommender – but the vast majority of talk has been of waiting to be invited to interview, being invited to interview, and interviews. The time difference in India is working to Wanna Be Dictator‘s advantage as he waits to hear from Wharton (he only has to check his email at 3am rather than every 5 minutes), and Hobbes is similarly anxious and occupying his time with friends. Having already interviewed at Northwestern, MBABabe was relieved to see her Kellogg application status change to “complete,” and is now in store for some waiting of her own. Our congratulations go out to all those who have already received some positive news: Scarecrow is deciding whether to travel to Philadelphia for the Wharton interview, Inblue was thrilled to get a Chicago invitation and TJ also earned an interview invitation from the GSB.
We’re also thrilled to see some bloggers sharing their interview experiences, as this is a great way to help others learn about the process. It sounds as though Scarecrow had a productive discussion with a Chicago alum, and it’s great that JatWarrior feels good about his Yale interview and was able to infuse some tailored comments about the new curriculum based on some insights from a fellow blogger. Though MBABabe was a bit hard on herself in her humorous recap of her Kellogg interview performance, it sounds like she ultimately did well, and Juggler provides a detailed account of the questions and characteristic attitude of her interviewer for that program.
Though the focus of late has been on interviewing and round one submission, we wanted to point those readers who are still working on essays to UniQpath‘s recent post about her post-application lessons, as she shares some great remarks on time management and school-specific research.
Good luck to everyone in the midst of the application process and midterm studying, and have a great weekend!
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