MBA and/or JD for friends?
I grew up in a "smaller" suburban town, and I transfered college campuses essentially three times within the same university (long story), and studied abroad one semester. ...Essentially the few friends from my childhood live the "simple life", working general post-grad jobs, still living in the suburbs. And due to the amount of "moving around" I had to do in college, I never developed a solid group of "friends for life" through dorm/frat/sports, etc.
Now that I have graduated, I really feel the effects of not having a solid network of friends, especially in nyc. It seems like everyone my age within finance/consulting, has a tight network of friends from some elite/private college, who ALL seem to have moved to NYC...regardless of whether they have a job (simply living off of mom/dad)!!
People say that I will meet new people at work. But I feel like there is big difference between work friends, and college/university friends. It seems as though people spend so much time at work together, that when it comes time to the evening/weekends everyone hangs out with their college friends. (with exception to the occasional work happy hour)
To make a long story short, I don't feel like I got the true university experience. I kinda want to go back to school to have this "bonding experience" that I feel I never had as an undergrad. Some people have told me that MBA school is just one big expensive networking party, essentially a great way to, I hate to say it, but to "buy" a great network of new friends who are educated, smart, and wealthy. (on a somewhat related note, the intensity of law school has also been noted to provide this bonding experience, despite being much more competitive/rigorous)
Am I crazy for desiring to go to grad school with this as my MAIN motivation, even though I could probably get to where I want to be career-wise without grad-school. Or maybe in other words, will an elite network of close friends from MBA (or law) school produce an increase in my quality of life/happiness to a point where it is worth the tremendous time & opportunity cost.
I am hoping that someone who grew up like me and maybe attended a not so elite undergrad school can share their experiences.
I would rather have no friends than friends who are all lawyers.
You should consider participating in volunteer and cultural organizations. something like irish bankers save america or whatever your ethnic affiliation is.
or something you're interested in like a hip hop class or whatever. goal is hang out, meet people and develop friendships there.
last thing you want to happen is to end up like bateman
Making friends can be easy, do you play a sport, have a hobby? If so you can find them. An MBA or JD will not net you friends, the JD will net you competitors and the MBA acquaintances. Also you won't have time for "making friends there" a JD or MBA is rigorous. It would be a 150K+ mistake. Go for these degrees to advance you're career. If you can't make friends read Dale Carnegie and go get some counseling.
I'm torn between telling you to get a life or to try and sympathize.
What are you doing now in NYC? If you're in a big analyst program, usually you will bond with your peers since you are working all the time.
I was in a small analyst program, and still bonded with my peers - they arent my life long friends but still people to go out with etc on wknds
hey well I was hoping to do a MBA to find dates
Well, if you treat making friends to be such a purposeful thing you will put a lot of pressure into each conversation opportunity, which may end up ruining yourself.
Maybe he's just Bateman
I was going to get an MD for the license plates.
I'm getting my DO for the T shirts and the RNs. DOs Do it Better.
What makes you think your MBA/law school friends would even end up in the same city as you? You sound about as mature as a 16 year old. Like others have said, get out of your apartment and do something... it's summer in the city.
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