A major component of this site is a weblog that has had several lives, from its start as a featured MBA applicant/student blog on a separate site to its own presence on the Blogger system and now to its own domain as my personal website.
As you read through the entries, you'll see me go through three distinct phases in my life:
- Pre-MBA experience: Experiences that one typically goes through before matriculating at business school
- Life as an MBA student: Highs and lows of my time as a student at the Stanford Graduate School of Business in much more detail than most would expect to see
- Post-MBA life...and serving as a career/education/life coach to the masses: Responses to questions emailed to me by readers, where I use what I have learned through my own missteps and experiences to help others achieve their goals and avoid making the same misstepsÂ
Useful article: “100 best job sites for B-school students”
Given the tough job market, I've been posting quite a few job-related articles lately. This entry presents one more to the reader community. It comes to us from the team at OnlineCollege.com and lists the 100 best job sites for business school students. I know it's a...
Great article: “Business school essays that get you in”
Happy new year, everybody. I hope you all had a fun and safe New Year's Eve celebration last week and have settled back into the post-holidays "real life" comfortably. With the second round deadline for many business schools having just passed or coming up soon, I...
Question about the Consulting vs. Finance career choice
The email below (or collection of emails) came from an international student wih a Technology background who is currently enrolled at a US business school. He arrived at B-school targeting Consulting as his career path, but has since become interested in Finance. He's...
Question from a 30+-year old IT pro targeting Stanford/Harvard
The message below came in at the end of August and, because I've been so busy, I'm just now seeing it a few days before the start of 2010. As such, I wonder whether my response will arrive in time to be useful to this recipient. The reader has been following my site...
Question about submitting supplemental MBA recs
What's good, folk. While working my way through my backlog of reader emails, I came across three messages that I was able knock out pretty quickly, so this entry will be followed by two other pretty short entries. Each of these entries will be all-text (i.e. no...
Introducing a membership model for this site
Hey, everyone. This is a quick entry to announce that I've implemented a membership-based model for MarquisParker.com. From now on, the majority of the content on the site will only be fully-viewable to registered members who have logged in. For more information about...
Question about my future in the for-profit education space
The email for this entry comes from an MBA aspirant who is trying to decide between applying for Stanford's MBA/MA.Ed program or the JD/MBA program, but his email has nothing to do with questions about either kind of program. Rather, he's wondering what my plans are,...
Perception of non-US military service in US MBA admissions
The email below comes from a Mechanical Engineer from India who is aspires to earn an MBA in the United States and is considering a long enlistment in the Indian Army to gain leadership experience. He's got two primary questions for me. First, he's wondering whether...
“Top Business School Stories of 2009” (from Business Week)
2009 has been a pretty wild year for business schools and their students. There have been many highs and lows for MBAs over the past 12 months, but I'm hopeful that things will starting looking up in 2010. BusinessWeek.com recently published its list of the top...
“Jobless MBAs seek solace in support groups” (from Business Week)
I'm posting the article below because it serves as a sort of companion piece to my Dec. 19th entry with job search tips from The Wall Street Journal. In the article, the author describes the support groups that are popping up at business schools across the country as...