Monday, August 31, 2009

LMU experience

I go to the MBA orientation at Loyola Marymount University. I enter the Hilton Hall, where the MBA classes will be conducted. I did not know the Hilton's are catholic, more specifically that Paris Hilton would be catholic! I see a hall full of MBA students and quite a few white people. I get a little nervous, hardly any Indians, I see a few Asians here and there. So I quietly walk to information booth and pick up my free t-shirt and brochures. I then grab a croissant, jelly and juice and get out of the way. I go and stand beside this pretty blond girl, but I am too timid to talk to her. So I just stand beside her cut my croissant nervously doing a really bad job cutting it. I then manage to slide in some jelly and I quickly eat it. Out of nowhere some sharp looking dude comes and introduces himself to me and we start talking. After a while a couple of students see us and start talking to us. My self-consciousness goes down a bit. I now feel like I am a part of some group in hall of strangers.

We are then instructed to go to another room. In this room I go and sit beside the guy who spoke to me, so that I don't feel alone. The faculty and staff go over key aspects of the program. I notice that all the administration staff, etc. is all female. Even the advisor is female. The director is female. The faculties make some bad jokes and everyone starts laughing. I am sitting in a pleasant big room but I am annoyed with the uncomfortable chairs in the room. I am surprised that such a nice classroom hall has such bad chairs that don't even move! Later the female administration make a presentation called good student vs. bad student which I think is funny to have in a graduate program. Everyone says please excuse my French before saying stuff like I worked my butt off, etc. which I find amusing.

After the presentation we walk around campus and I see some of the undergraduate students, they are a lot of white catholic girls walking around in tiny shorts and tank tops which is always nice. It is a very pretty campus, nice new buildings everywhere, looks very scenic. Unfortunately I will be going to class once a week at night so all the undergraduate girls will be in their dorm rooms and I won't be able to see them. But still I hope to gain some good experience from the program, as I have no business background and I have always been curious about a lot of business topics. It may also someday help me with a promotion at my work. In addition, I could use the campus facilities if I ever needed to.

3 comments:

  1. You can learn all the knowledge you need to start and maintain a business on the internet for free. You don't need some lame college course that teaches you purely theoretical crap and nothing practical that is actually needed to be successful in the real world. Find one particular aspect of business, eg. consulting, and start doing your research on google. Join forums that specialize in engineering consulting professionals so you can ask them questions and see how they operate in their business. Internet contains all of Man's knowledge, college is a dinosaur.

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  2. that was pretty sick. it's amazing how much better your writing is when you put it in the present tense. i feel like i'm there experiencing the moment with you.

    You need to work on the structure and flow of your writing. There are parts of your paragraphs that don't support the logical thought you are following within it. Organize those thoughts into their own paragraphs.

    for instance:

    "The faculty and staff go over key aspects of the program. I notice that all the administration staff, etc. is all female. Even the advisor is female. The director is female. The faculties make some bad jokes and everyone starts laughing. I am sitting in a pleasant big room but I am annoyed with the uncomfortable chairs in the room. I am surprised that such a nice classroom hall has such bad chairs that don't even move! Later the female administration make a presentation called good student vs. bad student which I think is funny to have in a graduate program. Everyone says please excuse my French before saying stuff like I worked my butt off, etc. which I find amusing."

    if you remove the points that don't have to do with the topic and put them in your paper elsewhere look at how much better it reads:

    "The faculty and staff go over key aspects of the program. I notice that all the administration staff, etc. is all female. Even the advisor is female. The director is female. The faculties make some bad jokes and everyone starts laughing. Later the female administration make a presentation called good student vs. bad student which I think is funny to have in a graduate program. Everyone says please excuse my French before saying stuff like I worked my butt off, etc. which I find amusing."

    by removing that stuff about the room and chairs your paragraph at least stays on the topic it started with. work on that for your next blog.

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