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FROM LBS Admissions Blog: Season’s Greetings from the Masters in Finance Admissions Team |
Hi everyone Our next application deadline is 6 January 2015 – the holiday period is a great opportunity to get your application ready! For the full list of stage deadlines see: https://www.london.edu/education-and-dev ... ance/apply Please note that we will be closed for the Christmas holidays from 15.00 on 23 December until 09.00 on 2 January 2015. Very […] Read the rest of this entry... |
FROM LBS Current Students Blog: Term 1 reloaded |
Apparently this is the most liked picture of the year by us students – thought you’d like to see it. Nearly one week after finishing the last exams, and enjoying a relaxing holiday in the beach, I think it’s now a good moment to reflect on Term 1 and London Business School. When I think about the fact that I started at LBS nearly 5 months ago, I question whether my feel for time is seriously distorted, because it feels like yesterday that I went to the Orientation day, and they called out all the different nationalities represented in the class. So what can I say about those first 5 months? Intense. Really intense. The academic workload is high, and you are bombarded in lots of different directions from club opportunities to career services requests. A couple of people told me: why on Earth did I come here? I had my job, earning money, and now I am swamped with assignments, some of which I wonder their application in my future job. There were a couple of days when I myself thought: I need to slow down a bit, otherwise I will burn out. But it’s ok. It’s a different environment. After all, you go back to the student life. But you spend a full weekend without mentioning the name LBS and you come back on Monday all reinvigorated and ready to rise up to the challenge. Looking back, this intensity, at least on the academic front, is necessary. People start with very different backgrounds and they need to level the playing field, and fast, if everyone wants to be able to follow the class and have access to the same roles. I have learnt so much… I started without any knowledge in practically any of the topics (except for maybe a little in data,models and decisions), and now I feel confident in reading financial statements of a company, I can do valuation, I can analyse a strategy, I understand significantly more about microeconomics, I know how to do a Montecarlo simulation… The amount of stuff that you get exposed to in term 1 is large, and it’s good, because I find all of it very valuable. Outside of the academics, you have more flexibility – you decide how many clubs you are involved in or how many activities you take on. It’s funny to recognise a certain illness that only develops in business schools. They call it FOMO, or Fear of Missing Out. It’s quite impressive to see how easy it spreads and the curious symptoms is carries, which include paralysis and hysteria alike. It has a very easy medicine, though: just know what you want, and be prepared to make choices. If so, easy ride Full of opportunities. I remember, when I first went to the US, when I suddenly understood why it was called the land of opportunity. Well, I feel LBS is more than a land of opportunity. In just one term, and leaving aside all the course work, I have seen three guys of my class set-up their own company, one girl become an intern for Emilia Wickstead, the winners Private Equity competition getting 5,000, 3 students become non-executive directors of charities… If you want to get into investment banking, you probably have already done 15 coffee chats. I have received invitations from several different consulting firms (and I am talking the big names in the business) to visit their offices and learn about summer internships. Companies know that good people come to LBS so established companies with fixed recruiting schemes, like investment banking or consulting, come straight to campus, but so do start-ups or other companies that need support as one-offs. There is an atmosphere of people that mean business, and things happen. People are there to support you There are lots of things organised around you so that you can learn, so that you can experiment, so that you can…. If you want to go into consulting, you have case interview practice. If you are unsure which part of a company do you want to go into, there are a series of talks called “What is…?”, that have people from that practice to explain what their job is like. If you feel your Excel skills are a bit rusty around the edges, there is a workshop for you. All of those are club driven. The career services is there too. They have some mandatory sessions to discuss CVs and interviews, and lots of voluntary ones that talk you from networking to LinkedIn to lessons learnt from entrepreneurs. The point is: there is a whole environment that supports your learning and your professional development. When I reflect on those past 5 months, I know one thing for sure: I made the right decision to come here. |
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