GSB Student blog - Rant about MBA in general

Touche. She doesn't mention it in that post, hence the mistake.

Did she not read the syllabus for the courses she chose? Basic econ is basic econ. Take a harder course then. I don't know, I can't understand why someone would complain that she didn't learn a ton, but then sign up for classes that, anyone with a CFA, should be able to realize are going to be mostly review... It baffles me. Corp Finance is not a mandatory course. Footnote accounting isn't either.



I don't think she knows what she wants... She says she wants to learn, but then debates taking review courses? Then complains that the courses weren't advanced enough to have learned something new? I don't get it.... If she didn't want to spend $4,500 dollars to review something, then she shouldn't...

I also really have to wonder how someone who is pursuing ANALYTIC FINANCE would consider an advanced stats course a waste.... What about financial time series analysis?

I actually liked her blog a lot in the past, but I'm baffled by this last post. You can pretty much take ANYTHING at the GSB first quarter - heck, I have a friend who even tried Fama's class... it just sounds like she didn't put a lot of thought into her course selection.

she has a baby so she probably didn't want to take anything that has too much course work. I am sure if she did take a heavier course load she would have hated it more because it would have required a lot more work. Having a baby must make the first semester that much harder...

I think she's had a bluesy day and is viewing pretty much everything in a negative light. A newborn - especially if its your first one - can play havoc with your priorities and value systems, and I dont mean this in a negative way. It just puts a different perspective on life in general. For instance, one can start thinking of all the money going on MBA fees, which could be saved for the baby's future.

Also I fully understand what she means about living on her savings - the stress of seeing your hard earned dollar go - on something that is perceived to not provide full value is pretty devastating. I recently purchased a laptop out of my savings; its speakers didn't work fully. I took it back to the shop the very next day and got a new one, unfortunately, a course choice made badly is not so easy to undo. However, I do question her course choices in the first place. Even I, from 10,000 miles away can easily assess the course contents of Chicago GSB on the web site. Her unpreparedness is strange since she, as someone who seems to have pursued commerce during undergrad (with a CFA to boot), should know what is coming her way.

+1 bsd..
the baby upset the apple cart.. hence she is moody. she seems to be defeating her own purpose of going to b school..

yeah, this "rant" makes no sense considering GSB's extremely flexible curriculum. I can see how the new baby probably affected a lot of things, but it's still her fault (and not the B-school's) for her not getting enough value out of the program so far. I mean, most of us know that it's not really the classes that give your MBA experience value. It's the network, practical business applications, and learning from each other that really matters.

Interesting that her post is now removed.

yeah, it was gone after I posted my reply...

Haha the public scrutiny and pressure from gmatclub was too much to bear !! ..

i think it's a little weird that we're dissecting someone's blog....that's why mine has always been super anonymous. I guess if you put it out there, you can expect to get the scrutiny. A rant is just a rant.