Damn, it feels good to be...

Need a laugh? Check out this video from FuquaVision…



Maybe this is only funny to B-schoolers… but man, this is good. Very well done – props to this Rami Jabaji guy. Check out the shadow dancing during the brander part… he perfectly spliced the shadow dance to the “3Cs, 4Ps” (1:56). But do people actually call them, ‘branders’? Is this a real term??

No idea. Melbourne Business School definitely exists in its own little shell… For one thing, we don’t emphasis finance, but we graduate a heck of a lot of consultants and marketers – last year, 55% went into consulting, which as you know is somewhat ridiculous. Hopefully these opportunities will stay strong in this bludgeoned worldwide economy.

In the meantime, it’s summer break. Yes, summer. Only in the southern hemisphere :) Doing my best to experience as much of the city as possible, while of course spending significant time hitting the case books in prep for consulting interviews. First rounds, at least, will probably come! Awesome. I'm extremely humbled by this, and feel extremely fortunate to have a good chance to interview with the companies I'm targeting... we have an extremely bright class, and there simply are not enough H1s to go around. Somehow I came out on the good side of it.

But through the stress that the grades produce, their beauty is that they give total transparency during recruiting. In other words, if the grades are above a certain cutoff, we will probably get interviews from any firm we apply to, and if not… the most selective firms will probably decline an interview. This is certainly harsh… but I would argue that it’s better to know where we stand instead of being confused when recruiting rolls around. At least in Melbourne, if our grades are bad, we've had the time to adjust our expectations and apply to less selective firms as well. That knowledge is absolutely priceless.

Other than that, life is pretty chill... getting back into running, but I think I’ll leave that for another post. Maybe after a little more improvement… I had started, but put it off for about the last two months because of schoolwork and the job. Was it worth it? Probably. But right now, I am sucking wind... slowly. Rather, slowly running and quickly sucking air :) But plenty of time to get fit...

Damn it feels good to be a student…

^_^