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Question about why I keep maintaining this blog… (WARNING: this is a long entry)

by Marquis | Aug 29, 2008 | Bschool experience, my motivations, shout outs to me, Stanford GSB

What’s up, peoples. I hope you’re all doing well and looking forward to the upcoming Labor Day holiday weekend (at least in the U.S.). For those of you about to start your MBA programs, make sure you do it up this weekend because you’re about to get...

Question from an aspiring non-profit endowment manager

by Marquis | Aug 14, 2008 | Bschool experience, Education, Joint degree, Non-profit

Hey, everyone. After the deaths of Bernie Mac and Isaac Hayes this weekend, I was seriously thrown for a loop. Now that it’s all settled in, I thought I should get back to addressing entries because my Inbox is getting extra, extra backed up.The email below is...

Making productive use of the summer before starting business school

by Marquis | Jun 13, 2008 | Bschool experience, career, internship, pre-mba summer, transition

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...

A little something to help incoming MBA students…

by Marquis | Mar 20, 2008 | Bschool experience, mba, my peoples, other blogs

I know that many of you are about to make the journey into business school and I wanted to lead you to a tool that might help you along that path. I can’t claim credit for it, but I wish I’d had the forethought to come up with it back in the day. Instead,...

Affording to have fun in business school

by Marquis | Mar 9, 2008 | Bschool experience, Business School, Financing the MBA

What’s good, folk. Just when I said that I was going to start writing more often, things started getting busier at work and I found myself not writing stuff that wasn’t work-related for a while. Well, I’m sitting on a plane right now, which gives me...

Answering some questions about going through the Stanford joint-degree program

by Marquis | Feb 3, 2008 | Bschool experience, Joint degree, Stanford GSB

What’s good, folk. The email below is from a Round 1 applicant to the GSB who was applying for the MBA/MA.Ed joint-degree program. Unfortunately, my backlog of emails kept me from being able to respond until now and those decisions went out a couple of weeks...
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