...maybe not, but I'll take one anyway.
Contrary to popular opinion, you can learn a term’s worth of material in a day. I actually learned a few concepts during the final. It wasn’t a great help, but I didn’t bomb it either. I also managed a minor aneurism when my group realized we’d spent three weeks constructing a paper that didn’t address what the professor asked for. It was tense, but we worked it out. Anyway, it is done and with that, an extremely long term has come to a close. There were times, I wasn’t sure we would make it. I feel like I’ve been running nonstop since January…
As I was finished with finals early in the week, I volunteered to give tours and answer questions for prospective minority students attending the Management Leaders for Tomorrow (MLT) Program. It was a flashback to my “pre-MBA” thought processes, when where to live (It doesn’t really matter, since you won’t be there much.) and getting good grades (We get graded for this?) seemed very important. I was surprised to be able to answer questions about the GSB when I feel like I’m still learning to navigate it myself, but I guess it is so intense precisely because you haven’t got time to “get a feel” for it. You learn by doing, or not doing, as the case may be.
So for a status report: I am exhausted and a little loopy. My house looks like a hurricane interrupted World War 3. I have a boatload of pre-assignments (articles) to read before next term begins. But as I approach the final episode in my first year of business school, I am leaving for Italy in the morning. It’s Spring break, people! Talk to you next week…