things i love and hate about business school
Loves
the timetable
what is there not to love?
each module is only 3 hours worth…at most 4…you can easily cram everything into a 3 day week…or less because of the flexible tutorial timing (of course, tutorial balloting kinda compromised this advantage..nevermind…)
still, it’s best to keep your free days to 1 or 2…cos you’ll never know when you need to come back to school for project…and having only a few available slots for your project mates will not work well, especially when you have 4-5 groups!
the competition
non-existant in NP, which is nice, for a change…makes me wanna become better and better…
of course the grades that i get back (especially for biz modules) are seldom encouraging :/ but well i’m trying harder and harder all the time, so this is probably good on the whole…
the things i get to learn
is relevant…for once…i know what i’m learning and why i’m learning it…
best of all, it’s easily applied…
back in NP, i’m always curious why we have to calculate the stress/forces, mechanics of stuff, airplane structure, some trigo…more on materials (which was very yucky)…
i mean, i can probably make some sense out of learning the 3D engineering drawings (i love this) and autocad – coz we can assist engineers in their work…
as for aircraft design and ehhem materials? we diploma holders (or even degree holders) ain even close to designing an aircraft on our own…it’s done in those secret factories in boeing, lockheed and blah blah by top brains *shrug* so i never really understood why it was even part of our curriculum…
Hates – everything else about biz school
money-mindedness/prestige mindedness or whatever!
hell, i know everyone is money-minded to some degree…and money is important and so on and so forth…but i don’t want to be reminded of it all the time!
investment banking is still the rage and only the best students get in…what’s the perk? money
becoming a millionaire/billionaire before you reach a certain age…
making money out of investment/stocks
getting cushy jobs at barclays/goldman sachs
networking with others to make use of them in the future (even if you don’t like them very much)
i mean none of them are bad…they’re all good…
but is that all there is?
i can tell you that the time i spend thinking about money related matters has increased 10 folds as compared to that time when i was still in NP…
and everytime i think about these i become depressed…
demanding integrity
just thinking about it makes me wanna laugh…
think about projects/reports and statistics from surveys…or “outsourcing” for tutorial answers from your friends…maybe twisting some facts or misleading someone into thinking of something…or “rephrasing” what you wanna say to what people wanna hear…all these need skill de…and i really think they are highly sought after…no?
nobody rewards integrity or honesty in school or at work…only bottomline…
and all the moral things that they demand (say integrity/honesty) will only hurt the bottomline, or something else…
sometimes i think people are just so stupid to even demand this…especially from business people…
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