So we’re a few weeks into the second semester of the MBA program and here are a few thoughts, in no particular order:
- I need to get an internship. And stat. Like way over due on this. Although I applied last semester and phone interviewed for one, the time for messing around has passed.
- Even though we’re dealing with the same amount of work as last semester, it’s somehow easier this time around and nowhere near as overwhelming. We know what’s coming. We’ve been through a semester and come out OK on the other side.
- Business vocabulary is starting to be second nature. Where as last semester, I felt like a fish out of water, this semester I’m starting to get used to things and can understand what people say when they throw around business terms. I think we’ve had a semester or more to shift how our brain thinks. From making a recommendation to making a monetized recommendation with data to back it up. (at least that’s the idea).
- In the summer, when I was way over my head with the intensity of IMS, I was on the phone with a friend of mine who is in the eMBA program at Big 12 university down the road. “You know when you hear about NFL rookies and they say the speed of the game is so much faster than college?” he asked me. “And then one day the game just slows down? Well hang in there, because one day the game will slow down.” And it has. I feel comfortable as an MBA student where as the first half of last semester I felt like someone playing the part of an MBA student.
