Things move fast here at Sloan. There is little time off... between a busy core semester of classes, endless reading and homework, joining clubs, Beacon Hill Pub and C-Functions, meeting classmates, networking, working with my core team.... the list could go on. But the experience has been a good one so far.
Next week is the first week of midterm exams. None of us really knows what to expect from a Sloan exam, so we are just going to have to trust what we have learned, and go for it. The funny part is that if you wanted to do everything with respect to classes, you could literally spend every waking hour doing that. Or if you wanted to join a bunch of clubs are really make a difference there, you could pretty much spend every hour doing that. And of course there is the whole "finding a job" thing which can be quite time consuming. Oh, and did I mention that this group knows how to "socialize" pretty well, too? As you can guess, the key is priorities and balance. Knowing you can't do everything, and optimizing what you can do. Learning to do this will probably be the most useful skill (or one of them) that I will develop while here at Sloan.
But time moves pretty fast here. It is easy to watch a whole week go by, engulfed in homework, team assignments, and social events. But what a ride. It has been exactly what I hoped it would be when I came here exactly a year ago to tour the school for the first time, and fell in love with what I saw.
