Spring Break
On April 17th, twenty-eight students from the MIT Sloan School of Management travelled to Omaha, NE for a visit with Warren Buffett. In Omaha, MIT Sloan was joined by several other MBA programs, including Northwestern, University of Chicago, and Columbia.
Last week you may have noticed several new faces popping up in your classrooms, in line at the Refresher Course, and bhangra-dancing the night away at the South Asian C-Function. 2011 AdMITs? Sure. But they weren't the only ones. A group of MBA students from some of the top business schools in China were visiting Sloan for one week as part of the annual Sloan China Lab program.
It was one of those full body experiences, setting foot on the dusty gravel driveway at Missouri River Feeders. A warm, sunny day for North Dakota; April is a good time to be visiting farms. As our team of MIT Agri-trekkers walked toward the office building, several of our senses were quickly and memorably engaged.
Dean Schmittlein noted last week at the last Town Hall of the 2008-2009 academic year, that this has truly been an "extraordinary" year. After making that statement, he followed up by saying that as a person in his position, at the closing event of a season, he's practically obligated to make such a claim, but after the events of this past year, he sincerely meant it.
To: MBA2010@googlegroups.com, MBA2009@googlegroups.com, From: Stumbling Sloanie Subj: Raffle For Sombit's Personal Effects Professor Lo has asked us to create visible measures to better assess the social riskiness of MBA assets. Please take a moment to fill out our survey! SurveyMonkey: MBA PURITY TEST 1.
1. Dear Alfred, Graduation is coming up really quick and I don't know what to do about my relationship. My partner and I met at Sloan and have been going out for a while but now she has found a good (meaning, existent) job in Chicago and I am still looking for a job in the career of my dreams.