END OF SEMESTER!
It’s the end of the semester and weather is turning cold… hence our increased flannel and warmer weather gear. This photo is of me and my co-tour guide Michelle; we accidentally wore blue plaid the same day for our scheduled tour… which definitely looked planned (it wasn’t, I assure you).
We Graduate Ambassadors are wrapping up our last week of “official” tour-guiding for the year… and although tours will be given in January, many of us won’t resume our regularly scheduled hours until February. Michelle was a fantastic co-guide (and so were you Joy! — another fellow Graduate Ambassador) so I’ll definitely miss you; I hope my co-guides next semester are as fun.
So, yes, the last week of finals–and then a [very] long break…at least for me. As an MBA2 who has a job lined up (yay me!), a bit of the pressure is off–so I don’t really need to be around campus throughout January. However, MBA1s and some MBA2s who are still recruiting may have a bit more to do here because a lot of the on-campus recruiting, especially in “traditional” career tracks (banking consulting, CPG marketing), happens over the winter break.
Taking a look back at last January, it was a very different month for me — I was doing “mock madness” with the Graduate Marketing Association (GMA) leading into my interviews. This was a great couple of days of programming where MBA1s get mentored by more-experience second-years, as they are schooled on the ins-and-outs of interviewing. They even have a “question bible” available with literally lists of every question anyone has ever been asked in a marketing interview. It helps you to prepare snappy responses beforehand–taking (a little) of the pressure off during the actual interview. This is just yet another way the professional clubs, in this case the GMA, helps shepherd you through the job-finding and job-getting process.
So this year, in lieu of recruiting, I’m going to visit my family in California and then take a sweet camping trip in New Hampshire. I will most likely not have such an extended vacation for a long time after I graduate from business school, so I’m going to make the most of this one.
See you in February– for one more semester of triumphs, tests, and business school shenanigans. Have the happiest holiday.