Aw… Husky.
Another week down in my MBA career… another weekend filled with homework. I’m starting to get my head wrapped around this new lifestyle.
Back before classes began, I visited the UW Bookstore with my parents while they were in town. My mom and I spent about a half an hour perusing the purple goods. I left [...]
“Don’t confuse comfort with learning.”
One of my classmates was pondering on Tuesday if the start of classes would feel anti-climatic after 2 weeks of orientation and leadership training.
After two days of classes, I think I can safely say “nope”. Not anti-climatic at all… As a matter of fact, I don’t think the effort and energy required in this [...]
Life of Pie Charts
One of the exercises that we’ve been asked to do this week is consider our “optimal” and “satisfactory” hours spent on various activities in the MBA program. Honestly, I have no idea what is realistic. So, I counted up the number of waking hours during the week (~119 if you’re getting 7hrs of sleep a [...]
MBA Bootcamp: That wasn’t so bad.
The Jump Start program wrapped up on Thursday with a test. Everyone pretty much started the program bright eyed and bushy tailed. I, for one, walked out with my eyes glazed over and my head swimming in new faces and financial functions. But, I learned a lot, did well on the test, and feel infinitely [...]
MBA Bootcamp: Day 1 & 2
Thursday was my first day of classes for the University of Washington MBA program! I’m still in shock that I was accepted, let alone starting up classes. Wasn’t I just on a beach in Peru?!
This first set of classes is called “Jump Start”, which is a week long boot camp refresher of quantitative methods, accounting [...]