A rare weekend post from EssaySnark with some advice which you hopefully don’t need to hear, because you’re already living this way. But we know that many people are not yet living this way. And it’s truly important that everyone start living this way. Pretend that your life is a video game. Your goal in […]
Continue reading...How to deal with anxiety
Maybe you’re not feeling anxiety. Maybe you’re just feeling numb. Or maybe you’re not in touch with your feelings at all. If you don’t feel like crap, then that could be because you’re dissociated. Dissociating is a very common reaction to stress. It’s a survival mechanism that puts us in self-preservation mode, so we don’t […]
Continue reading...Why does this feel so fucking awful?
Perhaps the most difficult aspect of our current experience is that NOBODY KNOWS WHAT’S GOING TO HAPPEN. We’re all waiting for it to happen. But most of us haven’t seen it happen yet. Maybe only one or two of you have literally had experience with the virus so far — but it’s possible that nobody […]
Continue reading...What is likely to happen in America over the next two quarters
WARNING We’re covering coronavirus predictions today and possible impact to society. If you are feeling fragile, if you’re not sure you can handle all the uncertainty — which is a legit reaction!! — then please skip today’s post. We’re going to talk about some possibilities for our future that may trigger anxiety. We believe […]
Continue reading...So really. What about Round 3?
What we know: Nothing. What we suspect: Round 3 will be much more of an option this year than it has been ever before! We’ve already offered some generalized discussions of how this situation may impact things in our posts over the past week ( especially here and here). All the schools are worried that […]
Continue reading...What to do now?
There’s a debate going on here in Snarkville around how to best respond to this crisis in the world today. Do we try and offer advice on how to navigate it? Do we post fact-based news about the virus to help offset some of the misinformation going around? Do we try to reassure those BSers […]
Continue reading...A rapidly evolving situation
We’re probably not going to be able to stay fully up-to-the-minute here on the EssaySnark blahg in reporting impact to your life and society on coronavirus — but suffice it to say, things are moving fast! After we posted yesterday’s wondering about how this thing might affect business schools, entire universities announced that they were […]
Continue reading...How will coronavirus affect business schools?
Really the question is, how will it affect higher ed? You may think that the media has blown the covid-19 thing all out of proportion, and the stock markets are overreacting. It’s possible that those things are true. We’ve got our own ideas for how this will unfold in the U.S. and we won’t bore […]
Continue reading...The Fed and the virus
Earlier this week we asked you to think about the Federal Reserve’s action on interest rates, to understand what they did and why. Economics is complicated, that’s for sure, and there’s a tremendous amount of uncertainty in the world today with coronovirus. Here’s an article laying out in simple terms what happened with interest rates […]
Continue reading...What did the Fed do with interest rates today, and why?
“WTF EssaySnark. What does this have to do with getting into business school?!?” Coming on the tail of our you should pay attention to the news series last week, we thought we’d quickly talk today about interest rates, and why they matter, and what’s going on the world that would cause them to change. Some […]
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