Sloan Women’s Week – How To Have It “All”
As I wrap my summer internship in financial services in San Francisco, I am reflective on where my path will take me in the future. Since it is Sloan Women’s Week, I would like to touch on a somewhat...
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Dispatch From Seattle: Summer At The Gates Foundation
Whenever people ask me what I want to do with my life (which, let me warn you, happens all too frequently when you’re in grad school), I have the same general elevator pitch that I’ve used for years:...
View ArticleSiloed, Value-Added, MBA Toolkits
I pretty much love everything about B-School. The people, the professors, the work, etc etc. Except for some of the buzzwords that, especially if you are going into consulting, you pretty much hear...
View ArticleLooking Forward to 2nd Year
In two short days our second year at Sloan will commence. I am excited to get back on campus and start a new semester, and reflective about how much has changed over the past year. Last year at this...
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A Productive and Insightful Summer at NerdWallet
Every week this summer I set out to write a Sloan and HKS blog post. And every week, I failed. Miserably. My excuse? I loved my summer internship. I arrived at work early (~7am) because I was excited...
View ArticleGreen, Verde, πράσινο
My father used to tell me that one of the truest tests of character is to be sincerely happy for the success of someone close to you. I have always tried to live by this maxim. But. I don’t know why,...
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MBA Mastery: The Art Of Balancing Focus and Exploration
I was standing in line at Area Four, one of the best cafes near MIT, when I noticed a shelf of tchotchkes above the register area, full of what seemed to be randomly acquired memories and keepsakes. A...
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Recap: MIT Sloan Diversity Weekend (with video)!
Traditional African Outfits for the Fashion Show On October 2-3, MIT Sloan hosted some 60 prospective students for Diversity Weekend so that they could become more acquainted with life at our school....
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MIT Grad Life – Enjoying all that MIT has to Offer
Being a student again has its perks, and at MIT, that means access to amazing events on campus, for free or heavily subsidized. Every week we get a newsletter from the MIT Graduate Student Council...
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SIPping on the American Dream
Well, that was that. My final SIP (Sloan Innovation Period) was an amazing experience. I participated in the Living the Dream: Re-envisioning the American Dream for the Next Generation course taught by...
View ArticleHappy Veterans Day from Sloan
As the world observes the Centennial of “The Great War,” it’s a fitting time to take a moment and think about the significance of Veterans Day, a day of observance that has its direct roots in the...
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Boston Students Make a Splash at Dublin’s Web Summit
Eleven MIT Sloan MBAs were selected as part of Web Summit’s MBA Scholars Program, of which ten are pictured. (Image courtesy of Takuya Takizume) Nearly two dozen graduate and undergraduate students...
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A week in the life of a second-year MBA student
Myth: Once you know what you’re doing after graduation, the second year of an MBA is one long vacation. Fact: There’s too much to do at Sloan to sleep away the days, and all that “free time” quickly...
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2014 Sales Competition & Conference – It’s a Wrap!
After almost a full year of planning, the 2014 Sales Competition and Conference is a wrap! On November 14th and 15th, 30 students from the top MBA programs came to Cambridge to participate in the...
View ArticleGoing (coming) Home For (After) Thanksgiving
Anyone who knows me knows that I am an unabashed and unapologetic homer for Seattle, my hometown. I wear my love for Seattle like the patches on Russell Wilson’s jersey. No one will ever convince me...
View ArticleMIT Sloan’s LGBT Fellowship Opportunity
It’s been a little over a month since a group of us Sloanies flew across the country to SF. We were converging with many of our LGBT MBA counterparts for the Reaching Out MBA Conference (ROMBA). Like...
View ArticleWhat Policing Can Teach Us About Unconscious Bias
A lot of my friends on Facebook have been posting about Ferguson over the past week. My instinct has been to think I don’t have that much to add beyond what’s already been said more eloquently by...
View ArticleFollow my G-Lab Blog!
I’m writing this post from Jakarta, where I just started my 3 weeks of on-site G-Lab work. G-Lab is short for Global Entrepreneurship Lab, which is a famed course for 2nd years at MIT Sloan. It...
View ArticleCross-Registering at HKS: Adaptive Leadership
One of the benefits of attending MIT Sloan is the ability to cross-register at other MIT departments and/or Harvard. One of the courses that’s most sought out is taught at Harvard Kennedy School. It is...
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How To Get the Most Out of IAP
During the month of January at MIT, we celebrate the freedom of choice and individuality with Independent Activities Period (IAP), a time where students and MIT community members can “organize,...
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