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justwhisper
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04 Jan 2014, 14:19
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knightofdelta
Thought about doing that but decided to put all my eggs in one basket and applied only to insead...
Good luck all R2 candidates!
05 Jan 2014, 19:00
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| FROM Insead Admissions Blog: Indispensable MBA |
 Where do you see yourself in 5 years? This is the daring question we are asked and we, consciously or not, ask ourselves so many times. The answer to the question is not as relevant as the thought process that goes into producing that answer. When we try to get a vivid image of our own person in 5 years time, all our hopes, fears, opportunities and obstacles come to mind; we try to carefully juggle all of these to picture what’s the wisest and most optimal possible outcome. Most of us will end up more confused than before the question was even asked. Add an MBA to the mix, and the opportunities are infinite. And that’s what I wanted: a world of opportunities. It all started with an idea. A pressing thought on my mind telling me I had plateaued. I needed a drastic change in my life. I decided to give an MBA a thought. Seeking schools that would fit my profile, I stumbled upon INSEAD. Upon reading through the program, some descriptions, reviews, articles, asking students and alumni, I was decided. It was a perfect match: not only what I wanted, it was also what I needed. Conceptualization gave rise to devotion. I gathered all my strength to create the most pristine application I could. Pressing the send button gave rise to hope. During those couple of months, I could do nothing better than hope for the best and be ready to accept the worst. We are never ready for the worst, so I prefer to neglect its existence until it comes knocking at my door. Fortunately that was not the case and acceptance gave rise to elation. The kind of elation where you can’t keep your feet on the ground. But that was ephemeral. I quickly realized I would have to jump into the unknown. I would have to say farewell to my comfort zone. A comfort zone I had spent so much effort perfecting, spontaneously swapped by a skydive into the wilderness. Not knowing what to expect, I was deeply apprehensive. Then came the Welcome Day. My congratulations to the Fonty organization: this day was so much more than what I had expected. Professor Karen Cool’s Master Class was a clear display of how much mastery the professors at INSEAD have, not only about the topics being taught, but as well about the art of teaching. Meeting my future classmates was a special experience. It’s not at all like the first day of school or college. This was different. All of us have ideas, projects, maybe families. We all have our own lives, we all have strong and well defined personalities, and we all share high hopes for the future. We are all different. We all have a purpose. Next year is going to be a mix of differently fascinating people coming together under the umbrella of the best of the best. That feeling of apprehension I once had is now gone, and elation is back. I am now ready. |
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05 Jan 2014, 20:00
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| FROM Insead Admissions Blog: Change, accelerate, be global and have fun |
 Hello everybody! Here comes a quick review of my four motivations to do an MBA at this point of my life. First, as with lots of my future peers, I share what I believe are two of the most common drivers of MBA applicants: the need to change and the will to accelerate one’s career. Change. Most of us have the feeling that we need a change in our careers, even in our lives, and sometimes not know exactly in which direction. By doing an MBA we are expecting to clarify our minds, either by experiencing the famous MBA transformational effect- after a period of confusion, discover a sector or activity new to us and enthusiastically embrace it- or simply by taking the time to reflect long and hard enough to be sure of what to do next. Ultimately we seek the right track for ourselves. Accelerate. I think simply by getting admitted, most of us, if not all, expect a substantial jump of position, responsibility or salary upon our graduation (it is also a need, we have the urge to get a return in our MBA investment!), irrespective of what we end up doing. Plus, I believe that generally speaking, people who are willing to multitask with work, GMAT, applications and to indebt themselves like crazy just to get to places more quickly, don’t like it slow. Apart from these, there is a third very common driver: networking opportunities. If you ask a bunch of students about their MBA motivations, lots of them would even mention networking opportunities in the first place. Well, I partly agree, but in my case I will put it in a more sophisticated way: I want to be part of the “homogeneous” group that international MBA students become. I know it sounds a totally bizarre statement, thus allow me to clarify it. Be global. MBA students at INSEAD (and other schools) come from different countries, backgrounds and mentalities; however they all share a will to succeed in the global business arena. Therefore, this brutal number of gifted professionals that are very different in origin, need to compete in the same game and under the same rules. Moreover, for a limited period of time, they all join a community of international top-notch recruiters, faculty and other ambitious and energetic individuals such as themselves. As a consequence of these two facts, these future global competitors end up learning new behaviors, codes and patterns to effectively interact with that environment. These new behaviors, codes and patterns, are the ones used in the global sphere. Well, simply put, I want to do that process: first contribute in and absorb from that global environment and after, master its language. In summary, I want to go deeper in my global citizenship. And by global here I do not only mean international. I mean to learn the ways of those with intellectual capacity, cultural perspective, professional dynamism and open-minded thinking. And finally of course, I want to have fun. Have fun. Fun exploring new paths, understanding new concepts, meeting new people, making mistakes, getting lessons from them, learning about new companies and sectors…etc. Fun in the old traditional way: travelling around, competing in sports, having interesting conversations in dinners…etc. And fun in its wild sense: clubbing, dancing, drinking, enjoying and forgetting that next year the whole thing will be over and that we will be back to a new normality! |
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