When you arrive in Cambridge this fall, its going to be a little overwhelming. You're going to meet a thousand new people, and be pushed to make seemingly important decisions right from day one. Hopefully these tips can help ease the process a little:
If this all sounded like gibberish to you, don't worry -- its all Sloan jargon and you'll learn in time. Have fun with your time off and see if you can read a few pieces of Fiction before your reading list changes to HBS cases...
- Pickup your facebook and work on learning people's names. It gets really hard after orientation when all of a sudden people aren't wearing their nametags any longer. Get ready for it.
- Unless you are interested in being an i-banker, take Marketing in the Fall. The class is only a half-semester class which gives you a lot of extra room to breathe at Finals.
- Boston turns from summer to winter faster than you think. Take advantage of the free sailing lessons on the Charles as soon as you arrive here in August.
- Accounting is not going to be fun, and those of us in the second year class are without doubt going to tell you how much harder we had it than you do. We're lying just to prevent reliving the misery.
- Start updating your resume now. Don't waste your time on formatting, because the CDO is going to make you change it anyway. Use bullets for your accomplishments under each job title and phrase them: "action overcame challenge to produce result." Quantify results wherever you can. Do this while you are still "working," its a pain to do it later because the CDO conveniently releases the resume template during midterms.
- Take 3 SIP credits in the fall semester. You are going to want to skip part of SIP during the Spring semester to go somewhere cool -- like India or Tibet or China or Colombia or Turkey or Korea or Japan or Killington...
- The core is all about volume. The work is all manageable and you will rely on your team to help you through the tough times. Plan ahead every week and don't be tempted to do all of your problem sets as a team -- that's the biggest time black hole ever.
- Definitely go on the pre-orientation trips in August. They give you a leg up meeting classmates and offer you a few extra second-year contacts outside of your Ocean.
If this all sounded like gibberish to you, don't worry -- its all Sloan jargon and you'll learn in time. Have fun with your time off and see if you can read a few pieces of Fiction before your reading list changes to HBS cases...
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