Welcome to Fridays From the Frontline, Clear Admit’s record of the week’s most significant MBA blogging activity. Current students certainly spiked our b-school radar in the last seven days, with a string of memorable goodbyes, some for the summer and others for good. Many applicants also transmitted a loud and clear farewell – to their applicant blogging peers, their pre-MBA employers and likely a good deal of their possessions, to boot. Others found comfort where they were. Let’s hear about it from them…
Vidiviciveni bid farewell to the applicant blogging world this week, promising to reconnect as a student blogger at London Business School this fall. On the other hand, Mike was just getting ready for another go-around, eyeing Harvard’s precocious essay release as he made the transition from applicant to reapplicant. Tinydancer was also scoping out similar surroundings, moving into Philadelphia proper to attend Wharton, after years of living in the nearby suburbs; she soon realized that despite its many pros, city living does not cater to the full-wardrobed – or to those full of any kind of possessions, for that matter. Wrapping up four years on the job, JulyDream finally basked in a break from work, and yet with all the other activities she has to attend to – from soccer in Vegas to fashion shows and dinner dates – it’s proving to be break from the ordinary that hardly feels like a break.
First-years were also keeping busy. GSB Sutras offered a thoughtful and thorough synthesis of Chicago’s fourth annual TATA India Business Conference – a must for anyone who regretted missing the event. In Singapore, Necromonger responded to the recent host of his readers who’ve pitted the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology’s MBA against INSEAD’s by letting the numbers speak for themselves. On a more relaxed note, Anand returned to Barcelona without the formal backing of the Darden course (the spring break Global Business Experience) that first brought him there and headed straight for the beach! Meanwhile, in an uncharacteristically emotional post, CS@HBS explained that while her first year at Harvard Business School may not quite have been the best year of her life, thanks to her section mates, it has been one of the most meaningful and memorable. Maybe MBA weighed in with considerably less celebration, lamenting that mothering a child this quarter has left her feeling a “fraction of her former self” – at least in terms of how much time she has to devote to her coursework at the Chicago GSB.
Out of the proverbial forest of assignments at long last, second-year bloggers were more upbeat. La Laudiaria waved goodbye to Wharton and Lauder, recounting a graduation day made extra memorable by both planned and unplanned outbursts, while Rubeo Boy described his Stern graduation at Radio City Music Hall as similarly twofold: it was both the culmination of a dream and an American dream dashed – that latter in that no one tossed up their caps at the end of the ceremony like in the movies! To cap it off, John shared some heartwarming pics of the CBS class of 2008 on their graduation day (in which all caps appear firmly atop heads or in hands!).
And that about finishes off this week’s line-up… Don’t forget to tune in next week for the latest MBA blogging updates from FFF!
