T minus one day til Japan! I thought I'd take a break from my frenzied packing to update you on my final Sloan semester. Like every other semester, this one is flying by and I'm already on Spring Break. Some highlights:
AdMIT Weekend
The 1st AdMIT Weekend has passed and it was awesome! I'm admittedly a little biased since I helped to organize the event, but from the feedback we received from the prospective students who attended, I think they would agree with me. We had an amazing group of 1st and 2nd years volunteer to do everything from hosting prospective students in their homes to working the registration table at 7 am to speaking on one of many panels. And all of the volunteers would definitely agree with me on this...the Class of 2010 is incredible. We had about 125 students and 40 Significant Others (SO's) attend the weekend and I had such a great time meeting them. We had a couple of new additions to this year's AdMIT Weekend including an on-campus C-Function (cultural party put on by the Chinese Business Club) and the launch of the AdMIT Ambassadors Program (AdMIT students were paired up with 1st and 2nd Sloanies who share similar backgrounds and interests). The Weekend exposed AdMITs to many sides of MIT Sloan through mock classes, faculty speakers, an activity fair, housing tours and much more. For those students admitted in Round 2 or who were admitted in Round 1 but unable to attend the first AdMIT Weekend, we're having a 2nd Weekend on May 1-3. The same experiences will be offered at this AdMIT Weekend, so I highly encourage anyone eligible to attend. It's a great way to meet your future classmates, find a roommate or determine if Sloan is where you want to call home for the next two years.
Maria, Yonca and I rocking our AdMIT Weekend volunteer red shirts.
Classes
This half of the semester I've had four classes: Finance 2, Financial Statement Analysis, Advanced Strategy and Macroeconomics. I honestly have enjoyed all of them, particularly Adv. Strat. In this class we formed teams of three and chose a company to analyze over the course of the semester. My group decided to go with Apple which has turned out to be really interesting. While I'm familiar with Apple products and marketing, it's been very insightful to break apart what is actually a very complex strategy and examine the company using various frameworks. After break, I'll add Branding and Consumer Behavior to my course list which will make my life a little busier, but I think it'll be worth it.
Fun Adventures
On a purely fun, "girl-bonding" note, 13 Sloan women and I went to a cabin in New Hampshire for a weekend in February. The cabin was on a beautiful frozen lake, and I must say - I have never seen so much snow. There must have been at least four feet and it snowed another foot while we were there. I did some first-time snow-shoeing and several of us worked diligently to make a sledding track but couldn't get one curve quite right - so we settled for making snow angels instead. We set aside plenty of time for eating and movie watching with the occasional homework break. A very fun weekend.
Joanna leading the way snow shoeing around the cabin.
Well, back to packing!
