In my blog I am planning to write about my experience of going through the MBA program as a part-time student, full-time employee, full-time husband and father. I hope that some of my experience will be helpful to others who are considering taking on this endevor of going part-time or even full-time MBA for that matter.
My personal way to MBA was very long. Suffice it to say, I am in my early forties. Not your typical MBA candidate. I really wish someone could tell me many of the things I know now may be 5-9 years ago. That’s why in my posts I will try to be personal, honest, informative, and hopefully regular. What I am trying to accomplish is just to give my personal perspective, so the readers could have additional information to help them in making some of the many decisions connected with the pursuit of MBA.
There is a lot of information about MBA programs, schools, courses etc on formal, official, semi-official sites of all kinds pertinent to ‘everything MBA’. There are also a lot of private blogs and websites from current and former student. All those sites combined provide a mother lode of information for prospective students. I hope that my blog will add some valuable insights to this wealth of information.
I am a part-time MBA student in Washington, DC area. I am in my first term right now, so hopefully I still have a lot to share about in my next three or so years of going through the business school.
I realize that many of the readers could be prospective students and they are specifically interested in the application/preparation aspect of the MBA experience (I know I was, and intensly so). I will share some of the things that I think could be helpful for the aspiring students. They will be posted in ‘MBA Introspection’ section of my blog.
Otherwise I will try to keep up to date on my current journey through the program, so you might know what to expect once you overcome all the hurdles of application and get admitted to the school of your choice. May be for some readers my insights will serve as deterrent, but I think that for most of the MBA aspirants it will serve as encouragement and motivation.
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On Monday I had my first class of the second module: Data Analysis and Decisions. This is a continuation of the course I took in the Fall Term – Judgement, Uncertainty and Decision Making. I have different professor this time, just hope he will be able to explain the material at least as clearly as the previous one.
Professor reviewed some of the stuff we learned in the first course, specifically my “old friend” – normal distribution and its “accomplices” mean and standard deviation. The course is not going to be a cake walk, since it is presumably a build up on the previous one, which was rather challenging for me. Though professor tried to make it sound that it is not going to be too hard. We’ll see about that. It’s based on the same textbook that we used in the Judgement & Uncertainty in fall. So it will be a “sweet reunion” 
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This class is being video recorded for distance learning students, so professor said he is not going to do any joking. That’s sad. I learned so much in many of my previous MBA courses through the anecdotes and jokes. I guess I won’t have much to share on the blog from the class .
It just happenned that way that both our kids had sleepover arrangements out of house on Saturday night. Not a very common occasion in our family. So I decided to make some fringe benefits from this coincidence: to have a night out with my wife. Regular a la carte menu for such occasions for us (not that we really have it on regular basis, but even as rarely as we have it that’s what we do most of the time) is dinner at the reastaurant and a movie. The movie choice was kind of easy – Shutter Island. Even though if had seen the previews of Brooklyn’s Finest, I would more likely opted for that – seems to be more action-packed.
The restaurant choice was not very hard either. The easiest way to please my wife on such occasions is to take her to a sushi place. Luckily for me, there is such a restaurant in Rockville Town Center, which is right across from the movie theater. If interested you can read about our experience at Sushi Damo here.
We had a great night to celebrate all the occasions, but module two of the Spring semester starts without any break on Monday. I hope I still have a reason to celebrate once I get my final grades for the two of MBA courses I have had so far this term :)
