Welcome to another installment of Fridays from the Frontline! This has been a good week in the MBA blogging community, featuring spring-like weather in many locations and news of final exams and projects wrapping up on some campuses. Let’s take a look at the recent posts…
Now that applicant bloggers are in a transitional period, some are focusing on the fast-approaching future while others are reflecting back on the past year. Ipoel didn’t waste any time getting involved at Anderson; she attended the UCLA Knapp Business Plan competition and came away with positive impressions of entrepreneurship there. Suser posted a slightly more ambivalent take on USC’s admitted students’ weekend, though she remains committed and positive about her choice to join the program. Meanwhile, MBA_Salsera continues to wait (and worry) about her place on Georgetown’s waitlist.
For readers who are at the beginning of the application process, Rungee has posted some detailed thoughts on essay writing and preparing for the GMAT, while HairTwirler explains how she decided to which schools she would apply.
This was a relatively quiet week among first and second year student bloggers (perhaps related to final exams and projects!). Always with an eye for marketing, Patxi shared her thoughts on the new Financial Times ad campaign from LBS. Benny wrote about an impressive recent visit to Tuck by Home Depot CEO Frank Blake; he also addressed the pending legislation on H1-B visas, extremely relevant to many members of the MBA community.
DomoDomo kept us up to date this week on his and fellow blogger Hallonman’s field trip to India with INSEAD. Ed Starr’s posts this week were full of exotic photos and enthusiastic impressions of his trip to Israel and an LBS trek to Dubai.
Meanwhile, student bloggers who stayed back on the home front had plenty of fun this week as well. UCLADawg recounted the impressively…um, authentic… dishes on order at Anderson’s annual North American Food Festival fundraiser. Life on the East Coast seems equally enjoyable for MBA Gladiator, whose photos show life at Yale SOM to be full of soccer, hockey, communal YouTube viewing, and competitive hula-hooping. Along similar lines, Nagendra is thoroughly enjoying this season at Oxford, posting a helpful reminder to incoming MBA students to plan course loads that won’t interfere with the cricket season.
Academic and professional posts were few and far between this week. However, on a closing note, two exceptions came from Mbwana at Stanford, who posted brief thoughts on energy in Tanzania and entrepreneurship in India. For the time being, it seems as though spring fever has swept through the rest of the MBA blogosphere! Enjoy the sunshine this weekend, and join us next week for another Fridays from the Frontline!
