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• 3 P's and 1 E

  Only 21 days passed since I landed in Philadelphia, and every moment of it has been very joyful so far. When I close my eyes now, 4 major points come to my mind: 1st P: Pre-term This year, Wharton has compressed its preterm schedule to 2 weeks. With the... Posted Aug 27 2012, 01:40 AM by Seckin Ozdamar WG14 with | with no comments Filed under: Pre-Term, summer, friends, Philadelphia, International, retreat, Leadership, entrepreneurship, Preterm, learning team, diversity

• Thou Shalt Learn to Lead by Speaking Publicly

  According to Jerry Seinfeld , historian emeritus of the human condition, public speaking reigns supreme as the greatest fear that Americans have , notched comfortably one spot ahead of death , a disappointing number two. (Re-read previous sentence). Public... Posted Sep 07 2011, 07:38 PM by Eduardo Mestre WG13 with | with no comments Filed under: Academics, retreat, Leadership

• The learning team retreat: Or, campfires, canoes, and bunk beds, oh my!

  It's been just about a week since all of us returned from our learning team retreats, and we're all still struggling to recover. You may have heard about the retreat, an infamous and integral part of Wharton pre-term. Basically, the schools sends... Posted Aug 29 2011, 07:28 PM by Janine Mandel WG13 with | with no comments Filed under: Pre-Term, cohort, retreat

• The End is only the Beginning

  Pre-term's over. The days filled with meeting 50-80 classmates in and between classes, exchanging phone numbers with 30 of them, making tentative plans to grab lunch with 10 of them and hanging out at night with 200 of them are done. I took a quick... Posted Sep 03 2009, 04:31 PM by matthew stephenson with | with no comments Filed under: retreat