I know that a lot of y’all are busy preparing for your first day as a MBA by diving into the deep end of some form of boot camp or another (accounting? financing? Bueller?). But–for many of us–it’s the lingo that’s just as tough as the quantitative stuff when it comes to acclimating to our new b-school surroundings. If you’re not yet fluent in MBA-speak, you might check out the 12 Workplace Phrases You Probably Don’t Know . . . But Should. My personal favorite? Boil the ocean.
Get ready, there really are folks at school whose sentences overflow with these catchphrases. I’m not saying you have to use them, but it is incumbent upon us to understand them 
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