Welcome back to another episode of Fridays From the Frontline, our weekly sampling of the savoriest stories in the MBA blogosphere. With a holiday weekend just around the bend, MBA students and applicants alike can count on a bevy of reasons to celebrate. Let’s see what all the commotion’s about…
Just as she predicted, Angel Angie was a proud part of LBS’ sweeping victory at MBAT 2007, and has pictures, not to mention a cold and a fever from cheering on her classmates in the rain, to prove it. Around the world in Los Angeles, UCLADawg also caught the school pride fever, reveling in UCLA’s 100th NCAA win – and the fact that the Bruins were the first to do it. On the other hand, MBA Gladiator is proud just to be alive after a hair-raising trek through Angel’s Landing in Zion National Park. Perhaps his intrepid success would make him just the type of partygoer Hallonman was anticipating when he planned INSEAD’s Viking Week, replete with Absolut Vodka and Swedish bikini teams.
Doubtlessly celebrating a little differently this week was Nagendra, who was delighted to find himself on the Dean’s List at Oxford; while he may not have been an obvious choice as a superstar student, he noted that dedicated involvement as chairman of the Oxfordshire Business Network must have helped garner him the coveted award. Recounting somewhat of a Cinderella story herself, Rupin was elated to contribute to winning the Kellogg-GSB Real Estate Challenge: the GSB team managed the victory despite no formal sponsorship and little real estate background. Speaking of a valiant battle, up in Hanover, New Hampshire, Benny and fellow Tuckies prepared for the Dartmouth Relay for Life, rallying to fight cancer in honor of a classmate afflicted with Leukemia.
On the second-year front, students were fighting the good fight as well. Returning to balmy Palo Alto, Mbwana realized that life’s biggest challenges are all about attitude, and one of the most lasting ways his Stanford MBA has impacted him is through equipping him with an “anything is possible” mindset. Jerry Blank didn’t glean quite such an uplifting takeaway from his two years at Yale, but he does offer some insightful and incisive advice sure to enlighten future SOMers. It seems DomoDomo’s also ready to point out a painful INSEAD lesson – literally – learning in a recent lecture that an effective networker should have a ‘no pain, no gain’ approach to expanding their web of contacts.
Getting back to celebrating, though, let’s not forget this year’s soon to be matriculating applicants. Clear Admit’s warm congratulations go out to Asiangal, who just found out she’s garnered an impressive $20,000 in merit-based aid from Wharton! Necromonger’s certainly come a long way himself, at least according to the life story he shares with us through Google Maps. In a sharing mood herself, Rungee offers a good sense guide to getting winning recommendations, from choosing recommenders to thanking them properly. Forrest is also eager to assist future applicants, tackling the crucial topic of differentiating yourself from your segment of the applicant pool, while counterintuitively noting that the first-step in this regard is actually to recognizing your similarities to it. Finally, Ipoel waxed eloquent on the topic of differentiation herself, drawing upon a variety of sources in advising fellow females on getting ahead in a male-dominated workplace.
Well, that’s all for now, folks. Enjoy the holiday weekend and don’t forget to check back next week for the latest installment of Fridays From the Frontline…
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