First year Fall term is Tuck’s rite of passage; its challenges and demands are the stuff of folklore. The week just passed, I’ve been told, is one of the hardest we will encounter.
We had seven cases, one graded, meaty group project and presentation, two mid-term exams (remember: this is week two of Tuck for us!) and countless recruiting companies on campus. Sleep didn’t feature a whole lot. Bleary eyes looked back at bleary eyes in my bathroom mirror yesterday morning.
My week ended on a high. First, Tuck was named the second best business school in the world by the Economist (http://www.economist.com/node/17043164?story_id=17043164 – particularly pleasing to we British Tuckies). Take all rankings with a pinch of salt, but it is nice to have Tuck’s excellence recognized in such a way. Second, my statistics midterm (not my forte) went pretty well. And third, we had our penultimate rugby practice before next weekend’s game against Yale SOM, then went out for drinks with classmates to celebrate having made it through the week.
The four Fall A courses (Analysis for General Managers; Leading Individuals and Teams; Statistics for Managers; and Managerial Economics) are all very different. Some I have studied before, but never has any of it been taught so incredibly well, nor have I studied it in an environment so conducive to learning. Have you ever watched a movie that you last saw when you were young, and realized that there is so much more to it than you had appreciated? That’s a Tuck MBA. The subject matter may be similar to what you’ve encountered previously, but the angles you look at it from and the depth you look at it in, as well as your ability to reflect on your professional experiences so far, take the material to a whole new level.
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