Welcome back to Fridays From the Frontline, Clear Admit’s weekly chronicle of what’s new and notable in the MBA blogosphere. For applicants, this mainly consisted of earnest interview hopes and speculations, while current students awaited the onslaught of finals with noticeably less anticipation. Let’s check in with our bloggers for some firsthand accounts…
Our congratulations go out to B-School Bound, whose interview ordeal with Stanford ended in the best possible way – an invite, of course! He also tucked a strong Wharton interview under his belt, accompanied by an admirably calm mindset with which to await their final decision. Meanwhile, Wannabe restlessly waited for an interview decision from Tuck, briefly entertaining frazzled fears that it may have accidentally been snatched by his spam filter, interspersed with fickle hopes that perhaps he’d be among the lucky few rumored to receive an admit without a face-to-face meeting. Bokaa was also hip to the spam filter situation, checking his junk mail early and often.
Achilles stepped in to offer some comic relief, posting an amusing run down of the pros and cons of the top b-schools, complete with which Office Space character each could most conceivably lay claim to. Perhaps it was this scathing write-up that finally convinced Mbabound08 to throw in the towel on Columbia, capping her application short list at four (or maybe it was the Kellogg admit already in her pocket)…
On campus, first-years had their hands full with finals this week. After a last ditch studying effort, Asiangal was just about ready to head into her first Wharton exam – Operations and Information Management – although she didn’t necessary feel quite ready. Over in Fountainbleu, Necromonger succeeded in securing the coveted Negotiations elective, but even still he couldn’t talk his way out of tomorrow’s accounting and strategy tests at INSEAD. In windy Chicago, Iday breathed an uncommon sigh of relief and offered a run-down of GSB’s finals week (finally over!), his post-finals partying schedule and winter break plans. Nearby, MaybeMBA also seemed pretty relaxed, finding the time to extol the virtues of life in Hyde Park for prospective GSBers. In the same vein, Forrest served up some good sense interview advice that surely found a large and appreciative audience.
La Laudiaria found herself in the thick of it at Wharton, gloating about the ease of her second-year exam schedule, which has allowed her to get away with a week of hard Follies-style partying, until she realized that she actually still has quite a bit of work to do, come to think of it. Enviable Nagendra retained a more celebratory spirit, soaking in the beauty of Christmastime in Slough. And finally, ever informative, John filled us in on the Media Learning Teams program offered by Columbia’s Media Management Club – it creates support networks for Media-inclined students to draw upon in doing industry research and finding job leads.
That’s the news from the MBA blogosphere this week! Best wishes for a wonderful weekend, and don’t forget to share your thoughts in the Clear Admit MBA Search Survey over the next few days (survey takers are eligible to win an iPod Touch or new iPod Nano).
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