Damn straight.
11 Jan 2008 Leave a Comment
Guess which part-time MBA program got voted #3 in the nation by Business Week?
Yes Mom & Dad that is UCLA in #1.
Education
16 Oct 2007 Leave a Comment
I was watching the Colbert Report tonight when I heard a gentleman speak about The Washington Monthly College Guide. I was immediately intrigued. The article begins by articulating what the editors feel are the primary purposes of education:
The first question we asked was, what does America need from its universities? From this starting point, we came up with three central criteria: Universities should be engines of social mobility, they should produce the academic minds and scientific research that advance knowledge and drive economic growth, and they should inculcate and encourage an ethic of service.
The editors go on to make the distinction that they are not using metrics that the other college ranking systems use (like U.S. News and World Report). They are clearly measuring schools by different criteria and the results are surprising. With the exception of Cornell and U Penn, the list shows that the elite Ivy leagues don’t measure up to these standards. The University of California system measures highly; due to its emphasis on obtaining students from all backgrounds and its impressive graduation rates. Both my alma mater, Washington University in St. Louis, and my graduate school, University of Southern California make the grade (at 19 and 28 respectively).
All in all it was a highly interesting and well researched article.
Just in case…
14 Jun 2007 Leave a Comment
There was any doubt…
Look at what arrived today!
Only a million more loan payments to go….
Finally, something that makes sense.
12 Jun 2007 Leave a Comment
in Office Games, Tales of a B-School Babe
Finally, something that makes me feel better that I’ve had no response from all the resumes I’ve been sending out.
Survey: 29 Pct of Companies Hiring
MILWAUKEE — Only 29 percent of companies expect to add new positions in the next three months, which is typically the best time of the year for hiring, according to a survey of 14,000 employers being released Tuesday.
The survey by Milwaukee-based global staffing company Manpower Inc. also showed 7 percent of companies said they expect to reduce employment.
So tell me, where are all these jobs for MBAs that you speak of?
I’m in control… really I am.
10 May 2007 Leave a Comment
in Family, Notes to Myself, Tales of a B-School Babe
Out of office message: ON.
Reservations: MADE.
Gown: PRESSED.
Mother’s Day Presents: WRAPPED.
House: CLEAN.
Nose: STILL RUNNING.
(I have never ever had to blow my nose like this people…it’s a miracle I’m not drowning!)
Heaven help me… my inlaws and my parents meet for the first time tomorrow, I officially graduate and I might go more than a few hours without having dire need of a Kleenex box. Let the games begin people!
The Finance
09 May 2007 Leave a Comment
The Finance (the discipline, that is) and I, we have a stormy relationship. Every time the Finance starts talking about Betas and risk and portfolios, my eyes get a little misty and glazed over. I can balance my checkbook, and keep my retirement account afloat, but that’s about it.
However, my b-school classmate Frogpod has started a Finance Podcast called Market News Today. Now he and the Finance, they’re like THIS. Check it out if you’re financially inclined.
The finals are over….
08 May 2007 Leave a Comment
It’s time to COMMENCE!
And thus ends my graduate career….
T minus 10 days and counting…
01 May 2007 Leave a Comment
All papers: DONE. Senioritis: FULLY INFECTED. Finals left: ONE. Preparedness to Graduate: WAS READY ONE YEAR AGO.
Let the games begin!
Making the rest of us look bad.
01 May 2007 Leave a Comment
34 Duke Business Students Face Discipline for Cheating
Thirty-four first-year business graduate students at Duke University cheated on a take-home final exam, a judicial board has found, in what officials called the most widespread cheating episode in the business school’s history.
I just don’t have words to explain my disgust and anger that they’re ruining it for the rest of us who choose to pursue a graduate degree to LEARN rather than copy off of other’s papers. Read more about the train wreck here.
