Feb 08 2007
This MBA Life
This quarter is perhaps one for the ages. I didn’t expect MBA program would be any more intellectually challenging than poli-sci, but I start to realize how wrong I was.
Although this quarter has been difficult for other reasons, I am amazed at how much I was able to drag myself out of emotional doldrums by holding on to my study in MBA.
For example, this is perhaps the fourth time I took Macroecon so I didn’t expect too much new stuff coming out of the class. But Karma is a great professor, very knowledgeable not only in theory but also in practice. I thought the Fed operation was an absolute eye openner for me. Now entering the FOREX operations, I realized how mechanical my prior econ knowledge has been. For the first time, capital becomes so alive to me. Interacting with Karma is a really stimulating exercise.
Marketing and strategy are not as glamorous as I hoped for, but my hope was very high. I was so happy that Porter was discussed in detail. With Levitt’s Myopia article before him and the Blue Ocean after, strategy becomes more of a discipline than a practice.
Finance … oh, I adore Jennifer–as much as I did Jane Kennedy. Although I didn’t do too well in the midterm (damn the arbitrage thing), I could have had a much worse life in B school without people like Jane and Jennifer.