Yesterday was the first day of programming and already I feel behind, which is actually a comfortable feeling since it may be one of the more effective motivational techniques for some of the more mundane things - email, etc.
Things got kicked off with a great message from Dean Synder. Thus far we've been learning a lot about the program, academics, bidding process, policies, with a ton of informal and organized events for socializing. Tomorrow is financial aid and career services.
There are some great people here and it's been fun to meet a lot of people - definitely an environment where you realize how amazing some of their experience has been. But around the time you start feeling overwhelmed and intimidated you realize that everyone also had a significant motivation to leave whatever they were doing in order to do something else - which pretty much means we all like our work well enough to want to go through the application process and live on loans for two years. ;) Seriously though, the entire MBA experience is a highly personalized two-years and everyone here has their own stories.
The Chicago program is probably one of the most flexible...as they say, we have enough rope to hang ourselves with the academic freedom here. I just hope I don't bite off so much rope that I choke on it! :) Looking forward to classes starting...
Posted by Jeremy Showalter at September 9, 2004 12:08 AM