Wow, things have been busy. I woke up this morning and realized that today is the last day of January. Can someone tell me how and when that happened? It feels as though I only got back to campus from winter break yesterday. The time has flown by. The first two weeks back felt great, actually. The craziness of Fall A & B were behind me, I was refreshed from spending two weeks at my parent’s house, and I was eager to take on Winter Term. While I had enjoyed the quant-heavy classes of Fall B, the winter courses of Marketing, Strategy, and Global Economics have a totally different feel, and the change has been exciting.
So, I was on a bit of a “I’ve totally and completely mastered life at Tuck” high … for those first two weeks. Then recruiting set in. And while I know I say this all the time about Tuck, but it’s been a whirlwind of an experience. Prepping for interviews, staying on top of classes, and making sure to spend time studying for midterms all at the same time is a challenge. But my fellow T’12s and I are getting through it just fine – the more things to keep us busy during these chilly winter months, the better!
But enough about classes and recruiting, because there’s something else I want to chat about. I’ve also been busy lately with clubs at Tuck. In particular, I’ve been helping to plan Tuck’s annual Business & Society Conference, which is coming up on February 10th & 11th. The conference, which is student run, brings together business, government, and media experts to talk about the challenges facing business and society today.
This year’s conference is entitled “Can We Innovate Our Way Out? The collective role of the public and private sectors in driving long-term growth.” We have an array of panelists who will be talking about how collectively the public and private sectors can help to foster economic innovation, create jobs, manage systemic risk, fuel innovation in the energy sector, improve public education, and increase corporate sustainability. These are great topics for business school students to address, because as future business leaders, we should think about how the actions of our firms affect society and can help to address societal issues.
You can check out the details of the panels at the conference’s website: TuckBSC, and you can read about past conference topics and follow the conversation about this year’s topic on our Blog.
I’m plugging the conference, not just because it will be a great, thought-provoking event, and because I want people to know about it (though that is all true) — but for me, being part of the BSC committee this year has been a great experience. Like many of my classmates, I’m a career switcher, and being on the marketing team for the BSC has allowed me to get hands-on marketing experience and start to develop the tools I’ll need to be an effective marketer. I’ve gotten to work with second years who are knowledgeable and passionate about the conference, and it’s helped to expand my thinking about business’s role in society.
Anyway, days are busy here in Hanover. Tuckies certaintly don’t have time to hibernate in the winter.
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