Current Student Blogs "The best advice I have ever received was from my fellow applicants" - this is a quote I hear almost daily from GMAT Club members. This thread is bringing you the latest and greatest from the MBA blogosphere! This thread will be a collection of Currently Enrolled GMAT Club member blog posts brought directly from their blogs. You can pick up what they have found to be worthwhile and understand what bSchool life is really about! Here is a list of users/blogs that are currently participating (want to add your blog? You can do it here ) 1. Stevenfuqua - https://www.stevensma.com/ 2. etoubes - https://reachingthethirties.wordpress.com/ 3. Whiplasher - https://oxonian2013mba.wordpress.com/ - The Oxford Comma 4. NewCardinal - https://sloanlife.com/ - Sharing my journey through Stanford GSB 5. Defying Gravity https://defyinggravitymba.blogspot.com/ - moving from Applicant to the Current Student Blogs - HBS 6. uwengdori https://joshatrotman.wordpress.com/ - Study. Exercise. Food. Toronto. Friends. All about life at Rotman. 7. Domotron - https://domotron.wordpress.com/ 8. Hamm0 - https://hamm0.wordpress.com/ 9. Sarahrs - https://sarahmbajourney.wordpress.com/ 10. Timbob - https://timbob101.wordpress.com/ 11. gamalhot - https://gmalhotra.com/ 12. gmat4IMD - https://captainimd.tumblr.com/ - A blog by former Ship Captain and Current IMD Student 13. J2insead https://journey2insead.wordpress.com/ - A Nigerian's journey to the Business School for the World 14. mybjourney https://fromjeanstosuits.wordpress.com/ - My Journey through the MBA 15. Yudanashi https://blog.davidbbaker.com/ - My journey to Oxford's MBA Program at the Said Business School. 16. bschooladmit20 - https://medium.com/@Natasha_Malpani - MBA’18 @stanfordbiz, ex-investor @bigsocietycap. Exploring the future of #media entreprenuership. See Also.... MBA Applicant Blogs

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FROM From Bench to Board (Fuqua): Duke MBA 2nd Year Electives Are Amazing

This is a post I wrote a while back. Sorry that I haven't been good at updating my blog lately. I'm writing again so stay tuned for some new posts in the upcoming weeks! Here goes.

I'm currently about half way through my second year of the Duke Fuqua MBA and have taken quite a few electives now. I've written about Fuqua electives toward the end of my first year at Duke and think it's a good time to give an update on my experience with the second year electives. And as the title states, they have been quite amazing.

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FROM Financial Times MBA Blog: A lot happened before Easter

Michael Wieder describes the various talks and events he has been privy to over the last month

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24 Apr 2015, 21:01

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FROM Reaching the Thirties: My Last Day of Class at Fuqua

This is it! My two years at The Fuqua School of Business are coming to an end. Today I had my last class of the MBA! Lately the word I hear the most is “last”. I know I’m using it often: my last case, my last class, our last team meeting, our last lunch together at … Continue reading →

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24 Apr 2015, 22:01

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FROM uwengdori - Current Student: Passion for running

I started running as a cross country team member since highshcool and what’s really awesome about running is that…you never get bored of it!

I participated in 10k runs numerous times in New York, but it was first time in Canada. Great experience definitely except I didn’t realize how I lost all my running thing. I used to do it under 48 minutes and now it took me 52 minutes.

guess what I’m doing half marathon next week but I also have a final exam as well as capstone projects. It will be tough…but fun.

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FROM Financial Times MBA Blog: Batteries low? Recharge with a power nap

Brenden Sheehan shows how sleep can boost efficiency

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FROM Financial Times MBA Blog: Lessons from the second semester

Marta Szczerba describes how leadership, strategy and finance is taught at Harvard

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03 May 2015, 10:01

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FROM gamalhot: Finding your kick in life

Late October 2014, one of my MBA colleagues asked me if I wanted to run the Ragnar Relay Race ? “Ragnar Race? What is that?” I asked. “Mmmm, it’s just a normal relay race where you have to run few miles. It will be fun, you should do it” he replied. I think I only heard the word “fun” and said “yes, of course, I will do it”. Little did I realize what mess I am getting into. In next few days I realized the word ‘fun’ meant running with a group of 12 runners for 2 days covering a total distance of 216 miles. Each runner was supposed to run about 18 miles in 3 batches of about 6 miles each. If I remember correctly, the last time I ran was during my undergraduate days when I accompanied my friends for early morning run. All I could do was four laps around a soccer field and drop dead, a very respectable distance by my standards. My initial enthusiasm turned into nervousness and regret for I was sure that I was going to fail my colleagues. I got mixed response from friends when I shared this news. Some genuinely encouraged me and some called me a fool. The latter part made things worse. A night before the race I could not eat and sleep properly. Negative thoughts were overflowing from my mind.

Early morning on the D day, I was greeted by colleagues who were all excited, smiling, laughing and brimming with confidence. In their company, my mind got distracted from all negative thoughts and I started feeling better. We started off the race with our best runners. At a time only one runner was running and the rest of the team was following and cheering him/her in two vans. After few hours my turn was up. With a deep breath I took the baton and started running. To shut off all negative thoughts I plugged my earphones and started listening to music. Slowly, I could sense a change in myself at subconscious level. Running in the countryside I started enjoying the view. Negative thoughts had totally vanished and my mind was in full control of my body. Overcoming small gradients on the way gave me confidence to take on steeper gradients. On the way I met runners of different age groups, gender, ethnicity etc. They all had their own reasons for running. Throughout the race the whole team ate, slept and enjoyed together and everyone was emitting positive energy. After running continuously for straight 30 hours we finally finished the race with everyone running the last 50 yards together.

When I reflect back on this race, I see wonderful life lessons:-

Always let your mind rule your body.
Take decisions from your mind and not heart, since heart can be weak at times. Mind does not have any handicap of fear.
Surround yourself with people who emit positive energy. Negativity lowers life expectancy and brings nothing but self-misery.
Life will have ups and downs and your speed will never be constant. Adapt your life speed according to circumstances.
Friends are important in life. They act like anti-depressants whenever you are down and provide motivation when you are afraid of unknown.
Take out time for yourself. Be alone and try to meditate. Only when you are alone and calm you can listen to what your heart has to stay. Otherwise you will always hear what other people say or want you to do.
Decide what legacy you want to leave and quickly start working on it for we are on a borrowed time on earth.
Sometimes circumstances make people friends. Don’t share your fears with them. Given an opportunity they will leave no stone unturned to shatter your confidence. They can be often unreasonable and self-centered. But still – give everyone your best. Earn good karma. For in the end, it is between you and God. Never between you and them.

This experience was a big turning point in my life. It changed my attitude and forced me to rethink the way I have been approaching my life. I rediscovered a lost part of myself – my love for sports, positive aggression and a bit of care free attitude that I earlier had. This race gave me a kick full of confidence, self-discipline and fired in me a strong urge to keep improving. I became more focused on my studies, started paying more attention to my health, opened up to my peers and became comfortable taking unknown challenges. It is this kick which makes me get up in the morning and approach each day with a new determination. We all get many such kicks in life. We just have to spot our right kick at the right time.

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FROM Financial Times MBA Blog: School team spirit

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FROM uwengdori - Current Student: Goodlife half-marathon completed

I started running back in 2005. I finally conquered what seemed impossible.

Not sure when I would be able to do full marathon, but this will do for now.

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FROM uwengdori - Current Student: Rotman

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FROM From Bench to Board (Fuqua): Recruiting at Duke MBA (Fuqua)

With my MBA journey at Duke Fuqua coming to an end, I thought it'd be a great time to wrap up and reflect upon my experiences in the past 2 years. In an effort to write things that my readers care the most about, a while back I reached out to GMATClub and sought out questions. I plan to answer one of these questions per post over the next couple of months. So stay tuned for more content that have been decided by you, the reader.
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FROM Financial Times MBA Blog: Bursting the bubble

In her first post, Kristina Koch reflects on her first year

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FROM Reaching the Thirties: This Is not the End… This Is the Beginning

On Saturday May 9 I officially graduated from The Fuqua School of Business. The journey is over! Just yesterday I was taking over the phone with one of my best friends, Nacho, and he was telling me how he remembered all my struggles when applying to the MBA. He went on making fun of me about how … Continue reading →

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FROM Financial Times MBA Blog: The value of taking a break

Brenden Sheehan describes his relaxing week off between terms

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FROM NandoParrado: The light at the end of the admin tunnel

The start of Week Zero at the GSB is exactly 4 months away, and my days are getting busier and busier with several admin tasks which require completion before August. In particular: getting my US Visa, securing my accommodation at Stanford and relocating all my … Continue reading →

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FROM Financial Times MBA Blog: Oxford Africa Conference

Sam Peter prepares to make the most of an annual event at his school

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FROM Financial Times MBA Blog: Live Q&A: Executive Education

Is executive education effective? Ask our panel of experts on Wednesday, May 20 2015, from 2-3pm BST. Register now to participate.

On the panel are:

Josep Valor, associate dean of executive education atIese
Guy Saunders, associate dean of executive education at Melbourne Business School, Mt Eliza
Portia Mount, senior vice president of global marketing at the Center for Creative Leadership
Della Bradshaw, FT Business Education Editor

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For more information, take a look at the FT Executive Education 2015 rankings of customised and open enrollment programmes.

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20 May 2015, 05:01

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FROM Financial Times MBA Blog: Travel can make you a better leader

Good news for globetrotting MBAs: travel can make you a better leader. A recent article I read espoused the benefits of traveling from a managerial perspective, stating that it inspires creativity and innovation, builds community, fosters an appreciation for diversity, forces you outside your comfort zone and strengthens emotional intelligence.
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FROM Financial Times MBA Blog: A day of micro-business pitches

Marta Szczerba is inspired by the entrepreneurial skills of her classmates

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22 May 2015, 14:00

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FROM From Bench to Board (Fuqua): The Summer Before the MBA

One question I get a lot from prospective students is what to do in the summer before the MBA program. Like a lot of folks from non traditional backgrounds, I contemplated if I needed to take some classes to prepare for the MBA curriculum. I'll share my thoughts on this question and offer some advice as a recent graduate of the Duke MBA program.
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