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One of my classmates (a girl), who has some medical experience, spent half of her summer internship working as a nurse in Haiti. She was in a hospital that handled a lot of patients that Doctors Without Borders (DWB) passed on to them. One thing you need to know about DWB - they get funded based on success rate of their patients, in other words, they pass on dying patients. So my classmate dealt for 8 weeks with dying people in Haiti, in understaffed hospital, living in a tent and showering once a week. She says it was one of the most fulfilling experiences in her life. We talked a bit about our choices to go into finance, and how, if we were to go back in time, we probably would've chosen a different professional path. The other half of her summer she spent in a top investment bank, in their internal hedge fund group, a place half of my classmates would kill to be in. 

Makes me wonder what the hell am i doing with my life.

www.youtube.com/user/WhartonFollies

The videos are on the right. See the ones that were updated only recently.

Смешно всё-таки смотреть на разницу между бакалварами и МБА в Wharton.
Бакалавры все как один спят и видят как они будут работать в Голдманах и TPG-ых.

МБАы тоже многие не отказались бы... Но. Гораздо больше людей, особенно из тех, кто уже поработал в больших приват эквитях и банках и хедж фондах, хотят заниматься чем-то совершенно другим - от стартапов до non-profits. 

Мне кажется, это как с девочками. В 18-20 лет все хотят встречаться с самой самой красивой девочкой. А в 26 понимаешь ,что наверное хочешь встречаться с самой любимой девушкой. И она совсем не обязательно будет самой красивой. Да, конечно же и в 26 и в 30, да и в 50 хватает людей, которые смотрят на девушку с точки зрения её красоты и эффектности со стороный широкой публики. И конечно же будут люди, которые на самом деле искренее любят Голдман, т.е. пардон, ту самую популярную и самую красивую девушку.

Я и сам такой был в 20 лет - в плане работы. А сейчас нахожусь в интесивном творческом поиске и больше всего я боюсь не прогореть, а наоборот, не рискнуть достаточно сильно. Может показатсья, что я наезжаю на большие банки и прочие крупные компании, но совсем нет. Каждому своё. Всё что я хочу сказать, что для меня большая компания - точно не моё.

A line that keeps reverberating in my head is this one "and what will you do with your one wild and precious life?". I wish I knew the answer to that. There is no better place to figure it out than Wharton.

Peace & love :)

A rare hour of free time I spent raiding the ljs of my MBA friends and unleashing a cover bombing of comments on the journals.

Wow, last post 3-4 months ago...
Time flies by so so fast! 100 cases later, trips to London, Boston, Brazil, Moscow, LA, Vegas, Miami, Toronto.
Second place in MBA LBO competition (first went to LBS - congrats).
Very successful Wharton PE conference.
A PE trek to Moscow.
Sleepless nights in Jan-Feb trying to get a job while managing 6 classes per week.
Broken heart :)
Crazy Wharton/HBS/Stanford/Columbia cross-MBA retreat.
Spontaneous childlike snowball fight with 100 Wharton kids pouring out to the Rittenhouse park at 1am after a super heavy snowfall.
Wharton 54 + Halloween parties.
Being called out multiple times in Wharton's Journal cohort column.
Exciting summer internship.
Inviting random people on the streets to an after-party at my place at 4am (happened 2 days ago actually).
Armed robbery being the word of the day (first to say it in class wins, get the prof to say it - 3x points) after yesterday's armed robbery of AT&T store one block away from the school building.
Tons of introspecting, self-analysis and self-improvement work.
Met 300 interesting people.
Made many good buddies and hopefully a couple of friends.

This year definitely has been the most eventful year in my life. And still 1.5 months to go.

Поступайте, дети, в Вортон.

 

In our "Management of People at Work" class we had to write about our work experience. Our professors published the results of these essays in Washington Post. What do Wharton students really think about job motivation.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/16/AR2010121604899.html?hpid=topnews

http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/7868509/