Life has an interesting irony to it, doesn’t it? I think I’ve spent more time at Owen now that I am working full-time than when I was taking classes.
Perhaps I should back up a bit. Right after my last post, my life was sent into a bit of a welcome tailspin when an Owen Alum approached me about a job opportunity. The position would be a 6-month contract working for a fantastic company doing exactly what I came to business school to do – interactive marketing.
With my outstanding credit hours fulfilled through Leadership In Action, I would spend one day a week here working on my project with my team members and the rest I would be working full time helping to bring interactive strategies to life for brand managers. It’s been an incredible experience and I wouldn’t trade it for the world.
The downside to this strategy is that I have to find ways of keeping up with current events at school, not to mention social life. Oddly enough, I have been kept VERY engaged by a little thing called Owen Follies.
An annual tradition at business schools across the country, Follies is a chance for the classes to get together and make fun of ourselves. Usually this entails skits, videos and just enough jokes to allow us to laugh off the dismal job market:
This year, eight MBAs across both classes were tasked with filling up two and a half hours of comic interlude for our fellow business school classmates. To put it in other terms; we produced the equivalent of a full length feature film, in High Definition, no less including everything from writing to filming and editing.
All I have to say is that it was an amazing experience. Thanks to everyone who came out and we look forward to many more laughs beforw we walk across that dais!
Read the full article: No, I am not missing in action…it was Follies.