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GSB Student blog - Rant about MBA in general 30 Dec 2007, 13:14
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- I definitely don't regret choosing Chicago, but I do sometimes wonder about the worth of an MBA still.
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https://tombaornot.blogspot.com/2007/12/ ... oubts.html

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And when I don't feel hopeful then I wonder if I should have gone to all this expense. (You're thrown into recruiting so quickly that it's really your previous experience, not the MBA that you're selling yourself on. Do not expect to get a job in IM based on being at the GSB.)
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GSB Student blog - Rant about MBA in general Updated on: 30 Dec 2007, 16:05
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The questions she raises are ones she should have answered before she started the MBA process.
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GSB Student blog - Rant about MBA in general 30 Dec 2007, 15:57
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The questions he raises are ones he should have answered before he started the MBA process.
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its a woman btw, she talks about her pregnancy/having a child pretty extensively
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GSB Student blog - Rant about MBA in general 30 Dec 2007, 16:04
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The questions he raises are ones he should have answered before he started the MBA process.
its a woman btw, she talks about her pregnancy/having a child pretty extensively
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Touche. She doesn't mention it in that post, hence the mistake.
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GSB Student blog - Rant about MBA in general 30 Dec 2007, 16:58
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My Econ class was a repeat of my undergrad, footnote accounting didn't leave me any more certain about accounting or footnotes (it was pretty much a CFA repeat) and my Corp Fin class, though very well taught, was also largely a CFA review. Now, bear in mind that this would not be the case if I was a career switcher or hadn't done the CFA ...
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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.

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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.
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GSB Student blog - Rant about MBA in general 30 Dec 2007, 17:01
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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...
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GSB Student blog - Rant about MBA in general Updated on: 30 Dec 2007, 18:20
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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.
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GSB Student blog - Rant about MBA in general 30 Dec 2007, 17:57
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+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..
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GSB Student blog - Rant about MBA in general 30 Dec 2007, 23:47
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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.
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GSB Student blog - Rant about MBA in general 01 Jan 2008, 02:06
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Interesting that her post is now removed.
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GSB Student blog - Rant about MBA in general 01 Jan 2008, 05:22
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yeah, it was gone after I posted my reply...
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GSB Student blog - Rant about MBA in general 01 Jan 2008, 17:31
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Haha the public scrutiny and pressure from gmatclub was too much to bear !! ..
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GSB Student blog - Rant about MBA in general 01 Jan 2008, 19:33
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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.