Welcome back to Fridays From the Frontline, our weekly foray into the virtual MBA forum. The new year brought new developments for applicants, while current students were caught checking out their old selves in the mirror. Let’s head over to both camps for some firsthand accounts…
Beyond the ball drop, applicants found plenty of reason to celebrate this week. RunningTurtle, for instance, submitted his Ross application with a full 12 hours to spare. Although Miss Curly Bee found it a bit more taxing to stop polishing and press the proverbial big red button, she also mustered the wherewithal to submit to HBS. Ahead of the pack, B-School Bound mused over altruism, yield rates and screwing your (MBA blogosphere) neighbor as he decided whether to withdraw his Kellogg application or wait and see just for kicks, while VectorSpace was similarly thinking big, devising a unified application system that would allow applicants to choose from a fixed set of essays shared among all schools. Savings per applicant = 55 hours. What last minute procrastinators could do with an two extra days+ right now (or maybe yesterday…)!
Thinking more locally than globally, Mbabound08 had some deep thoughts of her own, on Kellogg vs. Haas and motherhood versus not. On a lighter note, Power Leveler stepped out on the town in Montreal to shed her French speaking inhibitions at the Chateau du Sexe.
Chicago GSB first-year Iday rang in a new year that will have a hard time topping his last; he offered up a bit of Bollywood wisdom for those who might not currently feel so blessed. Don’t count Juggler among these, however – she’s filled with enigmatic wanderings and wondering to match her wonderfully enigmatic year at Wharton so far. Similarly retrospective, MBAStarter contemplated the last sixth months of broadening who he knows who knows who and whether they know him at Duke. Necromonger was too busy looking into the eye of the tiger – er INSAD corporate finance exam – to look back in depth, although he did map out some ambitious acquisition targets for 2008.
LBS Second-year Angie directed panicking first years toward the Gloom Boom Doom blog, while personally celebrating well grounded hopes for a dynamic and rewarding 2008. Perhaps the only blogger able to top her sunny prospects is Tim K. at UT Austin/McCombs, who awaits a beautiful (by the looks of the sonogram) baby girl to be born in May. Mbagladiator is also prepared (really prepared) to tread on new territory – on the “Unauthorized Yale International Experience” to Chile and Argentina, that is.
And that about does it for this week’s line-up! See you next Friday for our regular rendez-vous with the usual suspects…
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