Fall Break is Just Like Spring Break (Except Not at All)

In the words of my Managerial Economics professor, Fall A at Tuck is fast and furious. Fall A goes by quicker than you can say Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. So what do you earn for making it through four weeks that included Saturday classes, a crash course in recruiting, intimate knowledge of Chebyshev’s Theorem, and a total of fourteen hours of sleep? A five day weekend!

Considering the serious sleep deprivation, I was desperately looking forward to Fall Break as a time where I could rest, relax, and recover from Fall A while having some fun and gearing up for Fall B. After all, the last time I had five or more days off while enrolled in an academic institution was Spring Break during my senior year of college. Back then, three of my good friends and I packed a small car and drove from Connecticut to Florida, producing one of the most memorable road trips of my life. With visions of bathing suits and beaches filling my head during my Statistics final, I couldn’t wait for Fall Break.

But wait, who was I kidding? This wasn’t Spring Break! During Fall Break, several Tuckies donned business suits instead of bathing suits and visited board rooms instead of beaches. After all, one of the major reasons the Tuck administration revamped the curriculum this year to four days of class instead of five is to give students more opportunities to visit companies on Fridays. Therefore, Fall Break marked the official start of company visits with several Tuck Treks (see Jesus G’s post for more info). I chose a slightly different option and attended the National Society of Hispanic MBA Conference in Minneapolis. Why would I leave Hanover during my “break” for the only place colder in the contiguous forty-eight? Well, for starters the NSHMBA conference was a great networking opportunity which featured approximately one hundred companies recruiting a few thousand attendees for both internship and full time opportunities. I really enjoyed my visit to Minneapolis since it’s a pretty cool (both literally and figuratively) little city, and because the conference helped reaffirm my belief in the value of the Tuck brand. When I was talking to both recruiters and students from other well respected business schools, I mentioned I was a Tuck student and they always reacted very positively.

Anyway, before I knew it, I was in Milwaukee awaiting a connecting flight home and reflecting on Fall A and Fall Break. I reflected for about twelve seconds before I realized that I had better use the time to prepare the homework assignments due during my first week of Fall B: calculating the prices of bonds sold in the open market, preparing a balance sheet for a start up firm, and building a model that would help an airport precisely determine how long it could afford to temporarily shut down a runway during construction. Like I said, Fall Break is just like Spring Break, except not at all.

EBSO – This week’s EBSO goes out to Casey, the Texas Tornado. Casey, who hails from the Dallas Fort Worth area, is just like a tornado in the sense that he is a concentration of enormous amounts of energy. Unlike a tornado, Casey uses his energy to impart a tremendous amount of positivity to those around him. Casey, it’s been a pleasure getting to work with you over these past few weeks and the best part is I know we’re only just getting started…

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