Comments on: “I’m studying management” http://kaiyen.com/blog/2009/03/05/im-studying-management/ Why have 10 blogs on specific topics when you can have just 1 with all kinds of random topics? Thu, 12 Jan 2012 05:17:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: kaiyen http://kaiyen.com/blog/2009/03/05/im-studying-management/comment-page-1/#comment-448 kaiyen Fri, 06 Mar 2009 20:01:18 +0000 http://kaiyen.com/blog/?p=419#comment-448 Well, the MBA office is quite blunt that no one will really care about whether one has successfully completed a concentration or not, so I'm not concerned about that professionally. They tell us it's really for helping us design our class schedules more than anything else. And almost everyone agrees that having management skills is useful and critically important but I just feel...less "cool" when I don't say I'm going after a finance concentration :-). 4.0! Nice. I'm at 3.8 and far enough that no matter how I score from now on I have too many units in to really pull that up...:-( Well, the MBA office is quite blunt that no one will really care about whether one has successfully completed a concentration or not, so I’m not concerned about that professionally. They tell us it’s really for helping us design our class schedules more than anything else. And almost everyone agrees that having management skills is useful and critically important but I just feel…less “cool” when I don’t say I’m going after a finance concentration :-) .

4.0! Nice. I’m at 3.8 and far enough that no matter how I score from now on I have too many units in to really pull that up…:-(

]]> By: Debbie http://kaiyen.com/blog/2009/03/05/im-studying-management/comment-page-1/#comment-445 Debbie Fri, 06 Mar 2009 14:14:10 +0000 http://kaiyen.com/blog/?p=419#comment-445 I didn't have an MBA concentration because my electives were too diverse! I was interested in lots of topics and didn't feel the need to limit myself for the sake of some artificial designation. Just like no one NOW ever asks what your college major was (I can barely remember mine!), no one will ever EVER ask you what your MBA concentration was when you are done. They ARE impressed with my 4.0 GPA in grad school, though. That was far more important to me because it was something I never achieved any other time or place. Learning to be better at management is a skill it will take my whole life to develop - and I will NEVER master it! So...you're not an under-achiever at all. You just don't need the tag to make you feel good about who you are and what you're doing. Bravo. I didn’t have an MBA concentration because my electives were too diverse! I was interested in lots of topics and didn’t feel the need to limit myself for the sake of some artificial designation. Just like no one NOW ever asks what your college major was (I can barely remember mine!), no one will ever EVER ask you what your MBA concentration was when you are done. They ARE impressed with my 4.0 GPA in grad school, though. That was far more important to me because it was something I never achieved any other time or place. Learning to be better at management is a skill it will take my whole life to develop – and I will NEVER master it!

So…you’re not an under-achiever at all. You just don’t need the tag to make you feel good about who you are and what you’re doing. Bravo.

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