Welcome back to another addition of FFF, keeping you up to date on the new and notable goings on in the MBA blogosphere. Future and current MBA students are really in the thick of things this time of year; let’s check in with each group:
This week, the applicant crowd really ran the spectrum of pre-submission considerations. Blue Tulip, for one, has resolved to buckle down on GMAT prep, after gleaning some wisdom from The Art of War and found inspiration at a farewell party for b-school bound friends. Also on the subject of the dreaded test, MBA or Bust reminisces about some unsuccessful studying strategies of days past, Achilles continues to practice and reports that he’s making progress with the verbal section, while Agent-C is running some numbers on the test itself while hoping to shore up his quant score. On the other side of the process, we were thrilled to hear that VectorSpace passed with flying colors – and celebrated in similar style.
In other elements of the admissions process, Chaos is carefully thinking through the issue of recommender selection, a subject that B-School Bound tackled just last week. With the “who” out of the way, he’s now preoccupied with the “what,” having hit a potential roadblock with Harvard and Stanford’s recommendation questions. Others, meanwhile, have been doing some writing of their own, or at least gearing up to do so: gltnforpnshmnt took some time off work to focus on his HBS essays and sounds happy with the results, MBA or Bust is hoping that Kellogg’s first essay will set a tone for her applications, Penguin is unsure how to proceed with her career goal essays (but is certain that she prefers Ross’s essays to Wharton’s), and Charu is trying to decide whether he would prefer to be a knight or a millionaire so he can move forward with ISB essay 3. Finally, Wannabe reflects on the finer points of Tuck’s Early Action policy and his school selection in general.
On the student front, the incoming Class of ’09 continues their preparation for the start of school. Asiangal is going to be brushing up on her calculus in advance of Wharton’s math assessment exam in mid-August, while Rusgirl shares some internet resources she discovered during a self-administered statistics refresher before her LBS exemption exam. Meanwhile, TheLC recognizes a need for a less quantitatively rigorous curriculum of cooking practice and laundry lessons before heading off to Kellogg, ipoel gets a crash course in the pet-unfriendliness of landlords during her Anderson housing search (while teaching readers what a pool full of balloons looks like), and Georgetown-bound HairTwirler looks back on last year’s admissions process and offers some application advice to the next incoming class. On a celebratory note, Iday recounts what sounds like a warm pre-Chicago send off at work, and c2c thanks readers Oscar-acceptance style to commemorate his 100th post. We hope to read many more once he arrives at Kellogg!
The second-year students, were relatively quiet this week, as many are working hard at their internships and/or enjoying the vacation side of summer. We have, however, heard from a faithful few. IESE student Ashywn checked in from a hotel room in Madrid to give readers a sense of his work juggling two projects in two cities, FromCali shared some internship highlights and reports that recruiting is already ramping up at Michigan, Tim K. let readers know that they should look for him and some fellow McCombs students on CNBC next month, and John weighed in on his Columbia class schedule, recruiting opportunities for J-term students, and the merits of cranking it to 11. Finally, Angel Angie published a breathless post about how much she’s learning at her internship – and how little time she has for anything else!
That’s the recap for this week. Good luck to everyone studying for exams, writing essays, gearing up to start school and wrapping up internships! Have a wonderful weekend!
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