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A few weeks ago, I posted a link to a new blog by a Northwestern University JD/MBA student named Jeremy and I’ve been following his blog ever since. He’s written some really good entries about the B-school admissions game and the start of his journey at Northwestern and it’s defiitely worth a read if you’ve got some time.

I’m bringing up Jeremy’s blog in this entry because he wrote a fantastic entry recently about diversity in the MBA world and, specifically, Hispanic Heritage Month. Diversity is a topic about which I am very passionate and I’ve a bunch of stuff … Read the rest

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The email below is from an MBA applicant who is seeking advice on whether to mention his involvement in massively multiplayer online games (or MMO; “Worlds of Warcraft” is an example) during his college years in his applications and, if so, how he should do so. Really interesting story, right? I can honestly say that this was a brand new issue for me to think about, which is unusual after all of these years. At first, I planned to take some time to think through some key points and write up something detailed that might prove helpful to this reader … Read the rest

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Hey, everyone. As many of my long-time readers know, I’m very open to receiving feedback from my readers about this blog and, at times, I’ll post the feedback in an entry along with my response if it’s relevant. This entry is another example of that.

Earlier today, an anonymous reader posted the following constructive (read: blunt) piece of feedback to me in a comment on one of my past entries about how I’ve pretty much become a less interesting person since I went off to business school. Apparently, the pre-MBA version of me from my first couple of years of … Read the rest

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