The Study Session for the Last Core Class

Yesterday evening, we had a study session for Quantitative Business Analytics, the statistics class that is a “core class” in Baylor’s MBA program. As a part of it, we get to know the way that businesses use probabilities to justify some of their decisions. This, however, is not the focal point of this post. Rather, it is the camaraderie and teamwork that has shown itself over the course of this year and a half.

In the beginning months of the program, our main focus was to catch up to the speed of information in the business school. For this statistics class, which came very early in the program, we mostly operated individually or in very small groups in order to maintain information. But as the semesters progressed, we began to operate more as a core in preparation for many classes, and this one in particular. In the second semester, we were able to organize an effective group study session around due assignments.

It wasn’t until this last study session, however, when our growth finally started to set in. Those who were leading the session were going the extra mile in not just setting up the time and place, but providing extra study material as well. Those who needed help catching up were pinpointing the exact questions far more quickly than before. It may have taken a year and a half, but we’ve gotten past the concept of a basic “study session”… and now we simply facilitate learning.

I’m becoming a bit sentimental because the conclusion of the journey feels more real than it felt even two weeks ago. At that time, I ran the Bear Trail and called it a “Victory Lap”, with a similar mindset. But seeing the people in the study session with whom I’ve grown has made the end feel exponentially more so. I can only be thankful that this is the place that I’ve spent the past year and a half. I can’t tangibly quantify the return on investment yet, as I have only just begun the journey of collecting on my newfound monetary earning power. However, I don’t need to earn a dime to know that this has been a worthwhile cause. Thank you, Baylor. Now, I’m going to study for finals.