Welcome back to Fridays From the Frontline, Clear Admit’s familiar foray into the MBA blogging fray. Final festivities ushered out the last summer graduates this week, while able applicants angled to populate the places they’d vacated. Let’s hear about it firsthand…
Soni got psyched for this year’s essay writing season upon seeing the recent release of Kellogg’s latest batch of questions. His thorough essay approach involves outlining a response to each prompt, then narrowing down which he’ll choose to write on by assessing what he has to work with. Noses to a more standardized grindstone, Omne and Journey 2BSchool honed their GMAT strategies this week, agreeing that faster isn’t always better. While Journey 2BSchool warned against rushing into the GMAT, however, Omne resolved not to rush through it. Actual application considerations aside, Missionmba bemoaned the fact that some U.S. b-schools require international students to have a cosigner in order to secure loans, which sadly puts some of the institutions he’s long been fantasizing about out of his reach; this caused him to adopt the jaded mantra “Check your pockets and the loan conditions even before you start researching a program.” Almost-Darden-matriculant JulyDream was also feeling at a loss – for her iPod, Coach purse, designer sunglasses and soccer bag, to be exact… All signs point to an unfortunate friend who repaid her favor of lending out her car with the gift of carelessness.
Half-MBA Iday was welcomed to his internship in Santiago this week by a ring of snow capped mountains and a first day on the job so interesting, he managed to stay awake all throughout, despite having just deplaned from a 40-hour flight. Now he just needs to muster the energy to navigate the city, learn the language and forge a few friendships (in Spanish, of course)! Balancing a bit less on his plate, M@ took a time-out to contemplate what the soundtrack to the movie of his life might be like, considering the high and low notes of his future career as a manager and the ever-confounding ability humans – himself included – have to hurt those around them. Back to the here and now, Necromonger concluded his MBA chronicle with statistics (but no cartoons!?) on his recruiting experiences at INSEAD, while fellow INSEADer Marc Zornes renamed his blog in honor of the serendipitous “In The Forest of Fontainebleau” exhibit he recently saw at the National Gallery in Washington D.C., where he’s stationed on his summer internship.
Again, not quite all was quiet on the Western front, where the class of 2008 continued to walk slowly off into the sunset. Back in Fontainebleau, Res I(p)sa shared some fairytale pictures of INSEAD’s Montmelian Ball, (hosted by the student residents of the Montmelian Chateau) and the school-wide Summer Ball and INSEAD cabaret. Turning the page (or perhaps proceeding to the next slide?) CBS grad John mused on the importance of strong presentation skills, admitting that PowerPoint presentations, in particular, are a rare person’s (or even Jedi’s) forte.
That’s all the b-school blogging news for now, folks! To be continued next week, only on FFF!
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