Business school (n): 1. A place where students go to build up their knowledge on everything business related from finance to entrepreneurship to management. 2. A place where students go to act out the business world for four years before graduating on to the real thing. We get involved in too many things, we work too hard to try and get that impossible GPA, we spend our summers in offices hoping to get offered a position after graduation. But we always find time to celebrate.
There is a very strong competitive atmosphere.
Whether it is between classmates or organizations, a little competition never hurt, right?
There are two answers to this question: “What did you do this summer?”
Option 1: “I had an internship with *insert company name*.”
Option 2: “I traveled all summer!”
Work hard play hard is the motto.
Business school is the only place where that wicked smart kid in your statistics class with a 4.0 is the same guy dancing on a table with a bottle to his face Saturday night.
No one has any free time. Ever.
Between hours of homework, endless meetings, the multiple organizations we are part of, and preparing for interviews to snag that job or internship, our calendars are usually booked.
Many of your classmates already have their own businesses.
Ah, the entrepreneurial mindset. Kudos to them for being ahead of the game.
Facebook is still widely used.
Mainly to promote our own student clubs and organizations, via FB groups or pages. Or maybe we all admire Mark Zuckerberg a bit too much to let it go.
Your classmates come from not only all over the country, but also all over the world.
Business schools have very diverse campuses, which from a business perspective is a very smart move. Think: networks on networks on networks.
Everyone has a LinkedIn profile.
You may not know all your classmates personally, but you’re probably connected to them on LinkedIn. You can think of a skill endorsement as the new “poke.”
