Whew, it has been a while since I have updated the blog! Things have gotten a bit busy with the start of the fall semester and I let this slip! I am actually forced to write a blog-post for my communications class (15.280), but that is besides the point.
I have ten minutes to write this blog, so I'll keep it short. I think if I had to use one word to define the MBA experience I would use the word 'buffet.' I've used this term many times with myself and classmates as we learn to successfully (or unsuccessfully) balance juggling all of the demands we have on our time as MBA students. For instance, this past semester I have had to balance a few competing demands:
- 4 MBA core courses: Econ, Accounting, Organizational Processes, and Communication.
- 2 to 1 MBA electives: I was signed up for finance, added marketing, and then later dropped marketing as I determined that my class load was too high.
- 1 engineering elective: ESD.260 which is Logistics Systems. This is a great class for LGOs as we enter companies as operations/supply chain professionals. Right now we are learning about forecasting demand which is super important for most companies that manufacture products.
- 1 significant club activity: I applied for and was accepted to the DesignWorks seminar hosted by the MIT Sloan Design Club and Continuum Consulting. 12 of us from MIT Sloan have been selected to work on design projected in Cambridge with a local company! Sweet!
- 3 other clubs I am involved in: Korea Club, Technology Club, and the Design Club.
Classes have been very interesting and relevant to the business world. Andrew Lo is my finance Professor and I feel like I leave his class appreciating the world of finance more and more. Right now we are learning about fixed income securities and I talk to my LGO classmates about how the math is not difficult, but we feel like we are learning a new language every time we sit in his class. Chris Caplice is the primary instructor for Logistics Systems and he uses a very innovative style of lecturing wherein he has all 85 students in his class vote on different questions during class. For instance he offered up the introduction of the Ipod in 2001 and asked us what type of new product introduction it was. Most of us selected either a new to the world or another type. It is a form of quick crowd-sourcing of information and gauging the general knowledge level of the class.
Business school intensity has really ramped up this semester compared to the summer semester. Even the other LGOs are fairly busy with classes at very different times and locations. I am trying to manage the buffet well so that I eat enough to learn all that I can, but not so much that I get sick! Last week was fairly intensive because the LGO '14s were all back in town for knowledge review. Most of them (about 30 or so of them out of a class of about 48) are on their internships and they came back in town to update the LGO staff and partner companies on the status of their internships. Interspersed were sessions with companies (networking) and other LGOs. All in all the buffet will not slow down for the foreseeable future!
Please let me know if you have any topics you would like me to cover in future blog posts.
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