It’s Friday, and that must mean it’s time for another Fridays From The Frontline, Clear Admit’s titular trek through the tantalizing lives of MBA applicants and student bloggers. As the new year settled, and most round two deadlines passed, applicants were wondering what to do with their spare time just as current students got back into gear for their new set of courses.
Foo-Blogger encouraged his readers to donate funds to help Haitians cope with the recent earthquake. LBiggs completed his last round two applications, and made a list of the four most important lessons he gained from the experience. Ardent Meerkat also finished up her applications and found that not giving herself too much time to obsess over the details was an effective tactic for her. Though he was disappointed with his most recent GMAT score, MBADreamz did join a theater troupe, start going to the gym and contributing to an NGO. MBA Hopeful still felt positive about his Haas chances, even without an invite and round 1 results just days away. Madalogue turned her attentions to what she would eat once she was in an MBA program. AJ considered her ‘dream jobs,’ three of which seemed like they would be more easily achieved with an MBA. Braveheart attended a Chicago Booth lecture and networking reception. XLick spent his three day weekend prepping for his Stern interview, which included meeting with a current student and hearing his memories of his successful interview experience. A Beautiful Mind received the disappointing zap news from Fuqua, but was glad he had the opportunity to meet some current Fuqua students. Steve recounted the conundrum a colleague faced in terms of professional development and bolstering her resume for a future MBA application.
First years were a quiet bunch on the whole, but a few checked in. INSEAD ’11 Out of my Jeans attended his first INSEAD party and was overwhelmed by the number of names and faces to remember. Kellogg ’11 Orlando attended a presentation by Professor Harry Kraemer, and touched upon some of the reasons the man is a dynamic and interesting speaker. Foster ’11 Helen began her winter quarter and shared the progress of her marathon training team, ‘Run Foster Run.’
McCombs ’10 Paragon2Pieces celebrated her first day of her last semester. Harvard ’10 Gabrielle encouraged one and all to attend the school’s 2010 Entertainment and Media conference. Darden ’10 JulyDream was pleasantly surprised by the international diversity at her Swedish exchange program, and shared questions posed to her by a Darden undergrad about the merits of an MBA. McCombs ’10 Metal figured out most of his schedule, but was looking for a final course to round up his last semester. Fuqua ’10 Randy asked what could be better that receiving one statistics book in the mail?
And that’s all the news from the b-school blogosphere for this week. We hope that bloggers receiving round one notifications get to smile at the results, and we wish the best of luck to current students getting back into ‘the school groove.’ Until next week, have a great weekend!
