This will be a little different. Less description on what to do and more about my experience in my first day of MBA. Today was my business school orientation. I’m doing a program abroad, my second Master’s in Executive Business Administration.
Thoughts were that this was different from any other school orientation. They didn’t take us around the campus. There was no booze and we barely had time for the snacks and food provided. It was an hour of introduction to very successful people in the class who were driven and interesting. Then we had some presentations from professors, an hour case study where we met our groups and then were shown just how many things we would learn to make better decisions in our future teams.
There were a lot of people who are married with kids who talked about their kids. There was a VC with a podcast, a sales guy with a book, a Jordanian who rides motorcycles and delivers aid in Syria, a PhD who has a medical startup, a Japanese business consultant and a Palestinian photographer among many other equally impressive students.
My team was an interesting woman who works for Noble and knows my friends who work there. Another guy on our team happened to find out that his best friend was in the program at the program. He works at Melanox which is a company that bought Luxtera where I also worked at one time.
This group of people is very different from my Ecology class. Much older. This time I didn’t feel age-wise towards the top of the class but in the middle class of age. They were far more assertive, speaking up and chiming in even though it is the first day of orientation.
The ratio in the class is pretty bad, mostly men and mostly Israelis. The dress code was pretty casual, one of the professors wore TEVA sandals and a t-shirt. But majority wore button up shirts and jeans.
One thing that I found strange is no business ethics course, that seems like a must in this day and age.
I am pretty excited to see how this goes. I think it will end up being challenging but good.
seven year degree 