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
Answering several user emails in a single entry
What's good, everyone. Recently, I've had a few emails asking relatively straightforward questions that I've been able to crank out pretty quickly. I thought about making separate entries for them, but each would have been so short that it made more sense to...
Opportunity to participate in a book on focused business school admits
Hello, everyone. Remember when I posted the information about the ExpertCollective.com e-Book a couple of weeks ago? Well, the author of that book is putting together a new book focused on B-school admits and he's looking for people to participate in a survey. I've...
How to start your B-school research
What's good, y'all. I hope you're having a good week. I'm writing a quick post to pass along some information that might be useful to those of you planning to apply to B-school this year. By now, you've seen references to a couple of blog entries written by my man...
Question from an undergrad about choosing extracurricular activities
Hello all. I've got an email below from a student at Cornell who is considering applying to the schools M.Eng program, but hopes to get an MBA in the future. Sounds similar to the reader whose email I addressed a few days ago, right? Well, this guy has a question...
Question from a med student asking about consulting
What's going on, folk. I think I'm setting a recent record for speed in responding to user emails with my third in a few days. The message below is from a medical student who is interested in consulting as a possible path after she finishes med school. Her primary...
Questions from a reader planning for 2009-10 application cycle
Hello, all. The email below is from a business school aspirant with a background in manufacturing consulting who has questions about how he should approach the application process. In fact, he even typed up a 1.5 page description of his background to provide...
Moving into consulting after a Master’s degree but before an MBA
What's good, everyone. The message below is from a reader who will soon be starting an M.Eng program at Cornell and would like to eventually follow it up with an MBA. When I got this email, I had to chuckle a bit because it was the third message I'd received from an...
Interesting new resource for those applying to business school
Hey there, everyone. I hope all of you are enjoying your summers and taking time to relax and enjoy yourselves. I'd like to start off this entry by wishing everyone affected by the floods in the middle of the U.S. a quick recovery from those events. I have been really...
Question from an MBA aspirant light on work experience
What's up, readers. As you can tell, I'm trying to get to more of my reader emails lately, so I'll be posting a little more regularly to cut down on the backlog. This entry is my response to a reader who is pretty young, but has a strong desire to apply to business...
Making productive use of the summer before starting business school
What's good, y'all. The email below is from a reader who will be starting his MBA journey in the fall and is looking for advice on how to best use this summer. Unfortunately, he sent his email to me about a month and a half ago and I haven't been able to get to it...