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Advice on building self-confidence for a college Freshman

Categories: About Marquis, Business, my motivations, Reader comments, real life stuff, Self-confidence

The email that I’ve posted below is from a college Freshman who attended a keynote presentation that I have a few months ago. I talked about many things in that speech, including the ideas of goal setting and self confidence. When I saw this email, I couldn’t help but smile because I could see that my words really sank in for this kid and encouraged him to write in search of some personal advice.

I responded to this student’s email in 2 parts because I had answered a question similar to his first point in this post. So, in … Read the rest

Suggestion for the site from a reader to introduce a donationware system

Categories: About this blog, my motivations, Random categories, Reader comments, shout outs to me

What’s going on, everyone. I’d like to start this entry by passing along an interesting article that was posted on BusinessWeek.com a couple of weeks ago. The article is called
‘How to Write an MBA Admissions Essay’… Read the rest and the author breaks down the steps to compose a good B-school essay. When I first read the article, I found it to be pretty basic and didn’t think it would be useful to post up here. Then, I read it a second time a couple of weeks later and thought back to myself six years ago when I was approaching the MBA

Question about why I keep maintaining this blog… (WARNING: this is a long entry)

Categories: Bschool experience, my motivations, shout outs to me, Stanford GSB

What’s up, peoples. I hope you’re all doing well and looking forward to the upcoming Labor Day holiday weekend (at least in the U.S.). For those of you about to start your MBA programs, make sure you do it up this weekend because you’re about to get hit with a waterhose’s worth of core curriculum in a few short weeks. This time of year always makes me nostalgic…I wish I could go back to 2004 and redo the beginning of my time at Stanford GSB