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
Another Fuqua student perspective
So, I was having another recruiting conversation with another MBA student from Fuqua who is a regular reader of this blog and he informed me that he has a blog of his own. Once I saw the name of it, I KNEW that I had to pass it along to you...
Perspectives from a Fuqua MBA1 student
What's good, folk. I've decided to try something a little different with this post and hope that some of you find it useful.A couple of days ago, I was talking to a Fuqua MBA1 student about summer recruiting at my employer and he mentioned that reading this blog had...
RIP Pimp C 🙁
Most of you probably don't know who Pimp C, but the hip-hop fans out there might know him as half of the Houston rap duo UGK. He passed away earlier today in LA, so I wanted to send him a shout out...-------Houston Rapper Pimp C Found Dead In HotelLOS ANGELES -- Pimp...
Question about moving into Private Equity (what would I know about that, right?) 🙂
The email below is from a consultant at a boutique management consulting firm in India who is interested in transitioning to Private Equity in the future. As I may have mentioned on here before, my knowledge on the PE industry is still building, but I've tried to give...
Y’all remember that "Chocolate Rain" joint I made a post about?
By now, everyone has heard "Chocolate Rain" and the artist Tay Zonday made a big name for himself with it. Well, now this kid has a deal with Dr. Pepper off of it...I swear I'm in the wrong line of business. Here's the video for his...
Question about applying to Bschool in Round 3
What's good, fam. The email below is from a techie who is planning to apply to the GSB and would like some advice on the timing of his application. Emails like these are always difficult for me to address because they're asking for admissions office insights that I...
New site for all you daters out there…
I hope everyone is enjoying the last day of the Thanksgiving weekend. I'm making this post to spread the word about a new site launched by some Stanford GSB kids from the Class of 2007. One of my B-school roomies sent me the email about it, so I'm just going to post...
Happy Thanksgiving!
Just wanted to wish you all a Happy Thanksgiving! I hope you're all surrounded by loved ones and are ready to eat a whole lot of food :-)Also, I thought I'd pass along information about a new website called Insightory.com that aims to allow business professionals to...
Former Marketing professional looking to transition into Finance or Consulting
What's going on, y'all. The message below is from a professional with experience in marketing and non-profit who is interested in getting an MBA and moving into consulting afterward. I'm going to try my best to give him the sort of response he's looking for, but I'm...
I like the fact that people dig this blog…
Whew, I sure have been posting a lot of entries recently, huh? Anyways, I don't have any new advice for folks in this entry. Instead, I wanted to send a shout out to one of my readers, "ana", who posted the following comment on the November 9, 2007 entry. Looks like...