What's up, y'all. I'm writing you at the end of another long week. I could have sworn that this quarter would be a breeze compared to the previous four, but I (along with several of my classmates) are finding the Winter 2006 quarter to be tough. I'm not sure why, but, despite being finished with my GSB Senate term and the non-profit project I was doing and having fewer credit hours than in the past two quarters, I feel like I'm ripping and running to get everything done.
One reason may be that I'm actually trying to do all of the assigned readings in my classes as opposed to simply skimming them to find the most important parts. Another reason may be that I'm finally taking one of the GSB's most famous classes, "Interpersonal Dynamics" (also known as "Touchy Feely"). This course is supposed to help student work on their communications styles and give them a sense of how they are perceived by others around them. The jury is still out on how effective the class will be, but one thing I do know about it is that there is a TON of reading and writing assigned in that joint. Finally, I've made it a mission of mine to spend more time socializing with my classmates since I've only got 6 more months until graduation. I think everyone else has the same plan in mind because there have been a lot of lunches, dinners, and parties happening among the MBA2's. I guess the idea that we're almost done with this MBA journey is finally setting in.
Another big thing going on right now at the GSB is the start of the summer internship recruiting process. Thinking back to last year, I keep having terrible flashbacks at how most of the consulting companies destroyed me in interviews...the disses after second rounds were especially tough to handle. My biggest mistake as I went through the process was not being prepared enough in how to do the case interviews early on, which often caused me to stumble my way through them. I eventually got good at them by the start of March 2005, but, by then, I'd already been knocked out by all of the consulting companies that came on campus. Thank goodness for the alum at Accenture who put my resume into their pipeline. With all of the MBA1's walking around stressed about the internship process, I want to help them avoid all the disappointments I had last year, so I'm holding a case interview prep session tomorrow in hopes of getting their case skills as tight as possible. I did one of these things for a few of them back in December and those folks thought it was valuable, so i hope that the kids who attend tomorrow find it useful, as well. I'm planning on spending some time tonight developing a Powerpoint presentation that can serve as a cheat sheet for the MBA1's as they prepare to compete for the Consulting internships. Hopefully, they'll pay the gesture forward to the first-years who'll enter the GSB next year and start a tradition of prep sessions like these.
Posted by marquis930 at January 23, 2006 08:02 AM