Haas Week 3
I’m feeling voluble today, apparently. I think it has something to do with it being Thursday, which is where my week always gets a lot easier. Attending the evening program, my work-week usually starts sometime Sunday afternoon. I have to put a few hours reading, preparing, group projecting on Sunday afternoon before the insanity of the week starts off. Mondays and Wednesdays are a minimum of 14 hour days, getting on the train around 7:30am and not getting out of school until 9:30pm. This makes Tuesday my proverbial “hump day” where I’m just fighting through to keep things on track for the rest of the week. Wednesday nights I’ll sometimes need a cup of coffee before class to ensure awareness, but then after that things get a lot more mellow. Thursdays are meeting day at work, and most weeks I’m either getting on a place Thu night or picking Alexis up. Fridays are Fridays and Saturday is explicitly off limits for anything besides sleep and relaxation to let the body repair itself. School work isn’t so overwhelming, but the group projects for different classes take a lot of time to coordinate/research/execute.
I’m enjoying school a lot though, perhaps more than I even expected too. There are of course a great selection of people like I mentioned before, and after an initial “how basic can you get” worry about the classes they are getting quite interesting. There’s a ton of extracurricular activities at Haas though that have me really excited though: upcoming guest lecturers and symposiums, some very useful workshops on career growth and management, and a few student clubs that have me intrigued.
Its pretty obvious that B-School students are a pretty self-selecting crowd, and often have similar motivations/goals in mind. This makes it very easy to meet people who have the same mindset or are in the same point in their career/life as you. Within B-School there’s an even more self-selecting group of people who have enough interest in particular subjects to sign up for, help run, or even create a specific group. A couple that interest me the most are Net Impact, the Tech Club (obviously), and Social VC…and the Culinary Club (yum).
Other benefits of being a student again include cheap membership in the RSF (gym/pools). With an on-campus parking pass I’ve been finding it very easy to head up to Strawberry Canyon for some lap swimming. Nice.
