On the Admissions Blog we often talk about Tuck as a tightknit community. Here’s another example.
Yesterday I had a group lunch with one of my favorite professors, Matthew Slaughter, who is also Associate Dean at the School. These are informal gatherings of 4-5 students where we can talk about whatever is on our minds.
From Dean Slaughter’s perspective, it’s a chance to get to know students better and to hear what we’re thinking about outside of the classroom. He hosts lunches every few weeks or so throughout the year.
For students, it’s an opportunity to discuss job options, Tuck in general, and frequently debate Slaughter’s area of expertise–international economics and global trade.
The discussion yesterday was a good example. After going around the table and discussing our post-Tuck plans, we debated the current SEC charges against Goldman, the policy climate in the US (Slaughter was formerly on the Council of Economic Advisors at the White House), speedlimit rates of growth for the US vs China, India, and other developing countries.
Earlier in the week Dean Slaughter had been meeting with the heads of Johnson & Johnson to help them discuss these very same issues. Tomorrow he will be in China meetin with more chief executives of multinational organizations, all of whom are trying to figure out how to allocate resources, where to put development dollars, and how to target growth opportunities, which are largely outside the United States.
As a second year I’ve come to think of such lunches as a normal part of the Tuck experience. But there’s nothing normal about having such access to the faculty or the administration. And these informal lunches are just another example of the committment Tuck puts on students first. It’s what makes Tuck Tuck.
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