Welcome to Fridays From the Frontline, Clear Admit’s survey of this week’s interesting, informative and sometimes just plain entertaining developments in the MBA blogging community. On the surface, it was a fairly quiet week in the blogosphere, although student and applicant posts portend a rising commotion within earshot. Let’s see what we can make out so far.
In between farewell lunches, dinners and after dinner drinks, Asiangal’s been deciphering which Wharton courses she’s in the running to waive based on her undergraduate record and knowledge. This will determine the pre-term classes she chooses to take – intros or high-powered refreshers to prepare for the waiver exams. Juggler also has Wharton waivers on the brain, and is elated to find her waiver exams are spaced out enough once school starts to limit her summer studying, which is fortunate since she’s not in any shape to be straining her eyes right now! On the other hand, Forrest has focused his sights on the challenges that greet the crop of 2010 applicants. Compiling a self-titled “Mammoth Post” of the helpful application advice he received, he purges his inbox of the two year-application ordeal behind him, making room for the Chicago saga that lies ahead.
Uniqpath is likewise doing her part to assure us an informed round of 2010 applicants to watch, offering up the probing questions that helped her get to know business schools via students. In a different vein, HairTwirler also offered her expert opinion this past week, although she was perhaps a bit more out of her comfort zone given that her audience was a variety of Indian television networks and the topic was, of all things, mangos. Learning about a different facet of Indian culture, Reveur just finished Paramhansa Yogananda’s Autobiography of a Yogi, and is feeling inspired already.
First-years are also looking toward a bright future. For his part, J-Term Johnny posted a letter sharing Dean Hubbard’s vision for Columbia’s new Manhattanville campus, a 17-acre area stretch in Upper Manhattan, adjacent to the north side of the Morningside Heights campus, which is set to double the business school’s instructional space, among other advancements. Down in Washington D.C., MBAgladiator is off to a great start at his United Way internship, noting interesting and challenging projects, great coworkers and a perfect work/life balance – could the summer forecast get any better? While also optimistic after his first day on the job, Ashwyn was a little surprised to find that staying near IESE for an internship in Barcelona will basically constitute a summer of Spanish language immersion.
Perpetual Motion also found himself immersed this past week – in technology! At a conference on the implications of the very virtual universe, he noticed his peers simultaneously listening in on conference calls, scrolling through palm pilots, responding to emails and carrying on Instant Messenger conversations, leading him to question the distracted state of multi-tasking that envelopes the business executive’s daily life. Across the world in Singapore, Zanat0s was enjoying some multitasking himself, promoting the unusual music he likes to hit the books to at INSEAD. A weekend trip from Stern to London also required Rubeo Boy to do two things at once on multiple occasions – drink beer while talking to friends, drink beer while talking to women, drink beer while eating Wasabi nuts… Not far away, Angel Angie encountered similar demands at LBS’ end of the year Italian Festa d’Estate, but didn’t lose sight of the new job awaiting her the next morning.
Ever had a song stuck in your head that you just can’t shake? On the second-year front, The Dirty Canuck takes this to new levels with Bad Company’s “Ready for Love,” lamenting that nothing else in post-Chicago GSB life has managed to engage her gray matter so vehemently. With a different viewpoint, DomoDomo explains why the traditional year-long European MBA is a better fit for those, who, like himself, are beginning to chafe at the confines of b-school life. DivineMissN sounds a bit down on institutionalized business learning herself, quickly differentiating Interesting2007 , a conference she just attended, from those typical “boring ones, with the long list of speakers, where really the only thing you want to do is sneak off.” Still on her Norwegian sojourn, however, NoellieBellie risks no such boredom; breathtaking photos from her “Norway in a nutshell” tour provide evidence that Norway must belong to a vast and beautiful variety of filberts…
And that about sums it up for this week’s MBA adventures. Be sure to check back next Friday to see what’s brewing in the blogosphere. Have a great weekend everyone!
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