Today we’re posting a series of links to articles that we have collected over the years, to help you learn about learning, understand your understanding, and deepen your ability to gain insight into yourself — insights that you can use in practical ways. One of those very practical ways is figuring out what to do […]
Continue reading...Do you want bschool to be easy or hard?
For whatever reason, you’ve decided that you want an MBA. Many schools have essay questions asking you to explain why you want one. Regardless of how much thought you’ve put into that question before now, we’re going to pose one specific challenge today, for you to consider, to evaluate how you want to live your […]
Continue reading...Nobody’s thinking about writing essays right now. Right?
We have plenty to say about researching schools, figuring out if you need to be planning for Round 2, how to construct a good essay… but now doesn’t seem like the time to be spouting that stuff. If you live in any country but the U.S., you may be seeing news coverage of rising coronavirus […]
Continue reading...($) “I’m out of time. I’m going to just push everything to Round 2.”
We end up doing a series of posts on this problem every September, so we’re mostly going to be referring you to those prior posts today — with this one specific addition that everyone should study carefully. This is Life Advice that you can use to navigate thorny decisions around whether to put in a […]
Continue reading...($) Should you work through your MBA?
Heck, if school is gonna be done remote: Why not keep your job, live where you’re at, and go to school at the same time? Premium content starts here… ———– Premium content ends. Right now is a time for all of us to re-imagine what the world should be. Everything is in turmoil […]
Continue reading...Microaggressions
You’re in a big meeting at a client site. You’ve never been there before. The meeting is hot into discussion, and your boss turns to you and says, “Can you go print out the Acme Report for last quarter? Get copies for everyone. I think we need that to make this decision.” It’s not your […]
Continue reading...Are you ready to change the world?
The world needs you. Maybe it needs you to become a consultant. That’s still a totally viable career path for you and we’re not trying to convince you that getting an MBA to go do that is a bad idea or that it’s somehow morally wrong to continue working to make that happen. But, at […]
Continue reading...So what are you going to do about it?
Probably the hardest part of all of this coronavirus stuff is the massive uncertainty. (Unless you have experienced the loss of a family member personally, in which case, the hardest part is absolutely what you are going through, and EssaySnark is very, very sad for that.) We’re doing our best to offer straightforward fact-based analysis […]
Continue reading...Please be kind.
Some service worker screw something up? You didn’t get the egg rolls you ordered in your takeout? Please be kind. Some receptionist hang up on you by mistake when you called to make an appointment for your cat? Please be kind. Did your computer freeze on you — again — and now you have to […]
Continue reading...Coronavirus and the MBA: What might change for you and why it’s important to honor those changes
The world is truly in transition. At some point in the future, a sense of normalcy will return, where you’ll have a routine in your life (that includes leaving the house and going places, without bringing gloves and mask and hand sanitizer!), where you’ll talk about things like sports and movies and modern art or […]
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