The weirdest thing about this summer, so far, has been thinking about how one year ago, a whole bunch of us were in the IMS program, which is designed for non-business undergrads to get up to speed before the Fall semester and the real MBA program starts.
It seems like 33,000 years ago that about 20 of us first went into 410 Cashion for accounting. A combination of regular MBA and healthcare MBA students, everything seemed so far off. We’d been told that we would be with the health care students for a year, then they’d go off on their residency for 7 months, we’d finish in the fall semester without them, and they’d come back in January after we’d graduated. It felt like that year would never happen. Well it did and it’s hard to believe that I’m not going to be having classes with those guys anymore. Sure, we’ll probably stay in touch, since we’ve all become pretty close, but it won’t be the same.
There are so many times during the school year that you want to wish time to speed by, since the stress of classes and presentations and group meetings can get tough sometimes, but my advice to those in IMS is to savor every moment. Because a year and a half flies by. Your classmates quickly become friends and then quickly into something close to family. Make sure you say yes rather than no when friends ask you to do stuff out of class. And don’t take that time together for granted.
