Motivational videos for MBA applicants
For those of you about to embark on the grueling MBA admissions cycle, here are some videos to get you guys PUMPED UP, so you can go on BEAST MODE.
I hope all of you guys get into your top choices, and live the DREAM for two years.
Good luck, fellow monkeys.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YmQ2wLq40o
Thanks Brady, My favorite favorite favorite Wharton Follies clip is this one: "Evolution of an MBA"
Really clever and creative.
[quote=Brady4MVP]For those of you about to embark on the grueling MBA admissions cycle, here are some videos to get you guys PUMPED UP, so you can go on BEAST MODE.
I hope all of you guys get into your top choices, and live the DREAM for two years.
Good luck, fellow monkeys.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YmQ2wLq40o
]
This one's for you, Brady.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0nv9PbnclA&feature=plcp
[quote=bankerella][quote=Brady4MVP]For those of you about to embark on the grueling MBA admissions cycle, here are some videos to get you guys PUMPED UP, so you can go on BEAST MODE.
I hope all of you guys get into your top choices, and live the DREAM for two years.
Good luck, fellow monkeys.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YmQ2wLq40o
]
This one's for you, Brady.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0nv9PbnclA&feature=plcp[/quote]
Haha. That one is good. I've seen every wharton follies video on youtube.
Indeed, indeed. I even wonder if Brady resembles that guy in pink by any chance. Brady, you need to loose up a little. Can't deal with a girl being flirtatious to you on a forum?
The "Two Years of Fun" video was really well done. Outside of the live shows, I think this is probably the coolest Follies video I've seen...
Regards
Wow. Beautiful video. This is the first time I have seen this one.
I don't get the "uva sorority houses" one. Do wharton MBA guys go out to UVA for parties? Not surprised if they do since girls LOVE Wharton guys.
The search before the "uva sorority houses" was for "hotel rooms near foxfields"...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxfield_Races
Regards
No, you weren't. Your mental clinging, absurd compulsion, utter infatuation with all things MBA business schools ">M7 and your complete boner for HBS has made you something of a laughingstock on this site for months. I used to defend you, then I was quiet, then I felt sad for you, and now it's just grown altogether irksome.
You equate an MBA with ultimate accomplishment. It defines you. You emit this aura that you will die a broken man if you fail to attend a school of the caliber you aspire to reach. You believe it is the definitive key to a successful life: stellar, rewarding, lucrative career ... women tripping over themselves to reach you ... destination vacations ... vibrant party scene ... the wealth of the world at your fingertips.
It is revolting. Do some serious soul-searching. Grow a pair, and don't try to laugh it off as being "somewhat facetious" when months of posting history proves how false that statement is. An MBA does not define you. It gives you access to better opportunities than you might have had beforehand or without it, but it does not change who you were before you entered it. A socially backwards, hapless wimp of a man who gets admitted to HBS does not magically transform into a panty-dropping, muscular, affable stud clad in a $3,000 bespoke suit ready to shoot LBO lasers out of his elbows. The MBA does nothing except provide a platform for successful people who already possess the innate traits that allow them to be successful to enjoy even more success.
Wake up, please. I pray for you.
Your overreaction and self-righteousness are amusing. Your tirade does not deserve a lengthy response. I will say though that I do NOT think that a degree defines me. I do badly want to go to a MBA business schools ">M7 for valid professional and personal reasons, which I articulated in previous posts. I cannot help it if you take some posts out of context and arrive at wild conclusions about my inner psychology. In any case though, thanks, Dr. Phil.
Spot on. Places like Harvard don't 'make' people successful, they accept people who would have been successful anyway.
Brady,
You have a serious case of OCD.
Come up to Ellenville and go hang gliding.
Forget about bschool for now. Good things come to people who aren't looking for them.
I so wanted to jump in and defend my guy Brady, but I know the last one he wants to see supporting him would be me. Go Brady! I feel u and being an elitist like us hurts.
I feel like I'm in the Leveraged Sellout Comment Section.
Just really quickly - how exactly is an MBA the epitome of success? Not to knock the act of getting an MBA or anyone who has an MBA, but I've always seen the MBA as something you get if you've hit a wall in your career progression. If that description is insulting to anyone, please do explain it better for me. Other than spending two years hiding from the economy and dicking around with like-minded individuals, I don't see the value. Women don't care if you're from Wharton (trust me, I know) and it's hilarious to think that they would.
It's not any sort of epitome of success. I want it for a broader based exposure to business , both financial and strategic. Also , in many professions (P/E for one) , there's a natural wall between pre and post MBA roles. However , when I look at the multitude of top Hedge Fund managers who have MBAs , I can't help but notice that either the education or the network do help you along the road in some way.
It's not the epitome of success per se. And there are plenty of successful people who don't have MBAs. But certain industries like consulting and PE, require an MBA for career progression (of course there are always a few exceptions). More importantly though, a top MBA just opens a lot of doors with its network and general exposure to a lot of industries/firms. It provides you access to companies you want to work at; once you get the interview, it's totally up to you of course. For a lot of people, including myself, that access alone is worth the opportunity cost. Others may arrive at a very different conclusion.
I am a bit of a philistine, but I believe that it's not what you know, it's not who you know- it's what you save that makes you rich.
My two best friends are from Rutgers and UIUC. One of them is a doctor who speaks seven languages without an accent and lives in Jersey City. The other can pull the plot to good fantasy novels out of his imagination on the spot. If you're smart, you'll find brilliant people everywhere and make good friends with them. The KEY to happiness in life is free time and being a nice person. Saving $450K at 18 means years and years of not needing to work.
Swagon got banned for being an obnoxious troll so I think it would be best (for him and for us) if we applied the same rules to Brady.
Brady is an inadvertent troll at worst.
And I liked swagon. HPM has said Swagon got banned without posting all of the facts and circumstances, but I'm sure it was more than just mildly trollish behavior.
I would just submit that if your only posts are going to be Wharton and HBS knob slobbery than you should be held to a similar standard but you're right, I don't know everything that went into Swagon getting banned.
Just curious, what would prevent Swagon from masking his IP and registering under a different handle?
No one who ever went an MBA business schools ">M7 would mask their identity, it is unbecoming.
I can't tell which of these videos makes Wharton look the worst? I will forever have this image burned into my mind that MBA business schools ">M7 classes end with these artsy fartsy "drama club" types skipping out of the classroom holding hands while singing "party as an MBA"
The American Psycho one does us at least a little bit of justice, but most of them are some fairy shit
Let's judge the follies on their merits. They actually are pretty good singers. I enjoyed the video.
I thought I as the only one cringing at those bizarre videos
OP, time for a reality check. everyone who is at Ross or Anderson surely wishes they can trade spots with a guy at HBS. but they can't. if thousands of people are willing to accept a lower school, why can't you? we can expand this to the MBA business schools ">M7. every non-M7 MBA wishes they can trade up.
maybe your application has some huge holes that you aren't going to fill up any time soon. app pools get very competitive during shit economies, as you surely know. you have all the disadvantages working against you right now and unless you just have a habit of blowing interviews despite your 4.0 GPA and perfect GMAT, it's time to look in the mirror and tell yourself the truth: a top MBA is not in the cards.
I've talked about this before so won't go into details here. It's a combination of age, opportunity cost, and career goals. It's NOT because i think i'm too good for a non-m7 program. Plenty of super bright people get great jobs coming out of top 15 programs.
Regarding my profile, I've gotten a lot of feedback from people lately. If I can raise my GMAT quant score and polish up my story (my essays last time around were pretty bad), I think I will have a strong application. No idea if it's enough to get me in but certainly worth one more shot.
If you're lusting after an MBA program mostly to party hard and go on trips and get girls to drool over you you're just throwing piles of money down the toilet, then flushing a few times to make sure it's all gone in the drain. There are legitimate reasons to pursue an MBA, but if fun is your primary motivator, you can certainly do that w/o spending 250k (or whatever the running total is, looks like we're at 450k now).
I'll offer to be your party liaison at an elite New England university for far less then 250k.
Haters gone hate.
Haters gone hate.
follies put an artsy fartsy high drama spin on MBA life. never cared much for them. personal fav is the Munger Games by Columbia follies
Brady best to just focus on your MBA quest at this point and leave the WSO boards alone. having gone through the process last year, it's very time intensive and the essays could ALWAYS use another round of revisions. good luck.
That video is actually funny. Who knew that Charlie Munger was Bane?!?!?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvTNJ6jPE5A&feature=related
Regards
Of ALL the people to give the Wharton shirts to, they choose the black guy?!
I'm convinced that a truly solid MBA application requires 18-30 months of groundwork.
Before Brady can focus on his essays, he needs to have the interesting experiences to write about. And a typical MBA applicant usually needs to actively seek those experiences out.
The IlliniProgrammer of four years ago would have never been interested in hang gliding. Carrying a blankety-blanking glider up a hill 200 times sounded like a lot of work. But I decided I wanted to make myself a more interesting. And then I saw Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle where they hop on a HG- and I decided it looked like fun.
MBA programs and grad schools- at least in the non-research programs- tend to prefer people who do interesting stuff (OK, besides MIT. They prefer supergenius grinds.)
Journalists- particularly columnists- tend to be pretty interesting people. They are always finding crazy stuff to do to build up their muses. Hiking across the Andes. Traveling through Vietnam on a dirt-bike. It makes for interesting reading material and acts like a magnet for other interesting people.
I hate Harry Potter analogies, but B-school admission is a bit like getting the Sorceror's Stone out of the mirror. The only person who can get it out is the person who isn't particularly interested in getting it.
agreed. the rat race never ends. looking at the average person's roadmap to an MBA from undergrad (say 4 years), you may take the first year "off" and get away with not doing anything interesting on the side by adjusting to the real world, but by year 2 and 3 you need to be developing hobbies or becoming involved in community service and extracurriculars. it helps if you're naturally inclined to do interesting stuff, but for 99% of us it's damn tiring to do interesting stuff all the time. sometimes I just want to sit down with a beer and veg out in front of a TV. of course that's not terribly interesting to an MBA adcom.
I just wasted 20 minutes of time on this keensetofpeepers! It was funny. As an HBS grad, it's true, I also have a stable of Arabian horses that would miss me.
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