Greetings All, It has been a busy few weeks here in Philadelphia, from the close of the Class of 2015 application cycle to Wharton’s graduation weekend festivities . Unfortunately, I had to miss Graduation this year (due to the wedding of one of...
I have a confession: I’m a Leadership Venture junkie. It all started with Cotopaxi in January 2012, during my first year at Wharton. Towards the end of that school year, as I became a freshly minted Venture Fellow, I sat in a Huntsman classroom...
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During Welcome Weekend, I gave an apartment tour to a group of incoming students as a volunteer for a classmate's startup, The Rent Scene. Here are my thoughts... What does my building say about me? 1500 Locust - I'm pretty baller. I have an indoor...
The Wharton School's 1-1-1 initiative is a new program that will encourage Wharton MBAs to pledge 1% of their future earnings to help address the abject poverty of 1 billion people who live on less than $1 a day. This program is in the process of...
A few weeks ago, I went to 4th Street Deli with some friends for traditional Jewish appetizing. We ate bagels and lox, pastrami sandwiches, pickles and coleslaw – the works. (I can’t recommend this place enough….Get the white fish salad...
Critical to getting the best return on your grad school investment is making a concerted effort to identify and remediate your biggest weaknesses. And if you can leverage one of your strengths in the process - even better. For me, one of my most obvious...
As a first year, I’m wondering what my favorite Wharton experience will have been. Will it be landing that coveted job? Perhaps. Making hundreds of new friends? That too. Parading around downtown Philadelphia with a “Business on top, Party...
Midterms are knocking on the door, resume is polished, recruiting will be starting in a week, constant reminders to get focused from everyone, and more and more. Everyday my mind and my body are stretching more than ever, and for sure there is a limit...
Having been in Philly for nigh on six weeks now, and into 'real term' for two (as opposed to the glories of pre-term which I am sure others have covered by now), it has become increasingly clear that life is like, not a box of chocolates, but...
Mumbai, India: So, this is how I found out I had gotten in to Wharton. It’s December 20 th , 2011, admission decisions start going out today and I can literally feel my stomach do flip-flops. I’m taking a taxi back home from work, making my...
There are two kinds of people in this world- the first kind who run away from a fire with fear on their faces, and the second kind who run into fire with smiles on their faces. After years of conditioning as the first kind, I jumped on to the other side...
Hey guys, it’s been quite a while and a lot of water has passed under the bridge; Park city, recruiting, catching up on school work and fun times. Let’s face it, when you look back at the two years you spent in business school, you won’t...
Greetings, readers! I'm writing from the glorious fantasyland known as spring break. Remember that from college? That magical week that came out of nowhere to rescue you, just when you thought you couldn't write one more paper or do one more problem...
Lots to report since my last post! Here are a few extracurricular highlights: WEST COAST TECH TREK: A group of about 30 of us trekked out to Silicon Valley and Seattle for company visits and networking. We visited 10+ companies in 5 days, which made for...
'How was your Winter break?' The second semester's answer to 'What is your name?' headlines most conversations I've had with friends in the two short weeks since our returns from the remotest corners of earth. 'Antarctica was...
I write this from the study room on the ground level of Huntsman, amid the clicking of dozens of other keyboards. Multicolored umbrellas are bobbing past me outside, sheltering the students beneath them from the gentle late November drizzle. But precipitation...
I am a recreational figure skater. By recreational I mean non-competitive and skating for the fun and the thrill. I don't know any other Wharton classmates who also skate (except for hockey players) or at least skate right now. It's a solitary...
Wharton is a serious place. People here are smart, driven, committed, and inspiring. Academics are rigorous (still need to read my marketing case for tomorrow and its past midnight...) and extracurriculars serious. As an outsider, you'd be forgiven...