so ive been hearing some buzzing that INSEAD graduates are spending the end of June in the Greek Islands and also the next week is Yacht week in Croatia where Stanford/Booth/others? are starting to swirl talk of going there as well... anyone at these or other b schools can confirm?
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and no i am not trolling this to make brady super jealous lol
I can think of worse ways to spend a week or two. I should really learn how to sail.
Several first years at Booth are talking about doing Yacht Week in August right after internships end.
see you in croatia
Not spending I don't know how much to be stuck on a boat with a bunch of dudes doing overpriced stuff :)
There's some buzz at HBS about Yacht Week in early August as well.
You don't have to be able to sail to join The Yacht Week as they provide the skippers. I went two years ago to Greece and it was one of the best weeks of my life! I know a friend of mine who just went to the BVI on yacht week and HBS had 12 boats there.
Columbia will have 2 or 3 boats I think. I'm not going so I don't know which particular location but it seems pretty popular.
I can confirm that HBS has 3 boats so far.
Brady, if you're out there, give us a sign!
Hearing about all this is making me jealous and really look forward to B school someday.
I can imagine how jealous Brady might be right now.
Are you sure this is not Brady bait? Is this real?
Brady will literally be crying himself to sleep tonight.
yes this is real lol we were just talking about it today and heard other schools were involved too..
Wharton admit here. Pretty sure wharton is also involved in the yacht trip that shorttheworld is talking about.
Sounds lame to me. Bunch of MBA douchebags and mediocre looking MBA girls going on an overpriced yacht trip when they don't have income coming in. Give me a fucking break.
Remind to give this post some SBs when I have WSO credits again.
Haha. Yes sir, i shall indeed remind you.
MBA is a lot of hype, especially the social experience.
While I'm sure the social experience is certainly overhyped in most cases, I have to say I've been impressed by some of the stories and examples I've heard. And I'm not talking about yacht week type stuff but the strong friendships/connections that many make while in b-school.
I haven't attended b-school, so I can't say definitively how great the experience is, but I've met and networked with a fair number of alums and current students from different schools and they all have cool stories to support some of the hype. I've talked to a number of people that have been out of business school for years, some nearly a decade and they still do an annual girls or guys weekend with their close friends from b-school where they all fly in for a ski trip or beach weekend, etc. I've also talked to many that had classmates in their weddings, even though they live in different cities in different parts of the country/world.
Clearly that's much different from a yacht week with blow and strippers, or whatever else people dream up, but those types of close, lasting relationships, typically imply something unique occurred while these folks were in school.
On a side note, I have some friends that just came back from a BVI yacht trip about a week or two ago and some of the pictures were pretty insane. So while I agree some of the dudes may be d-bags and some of the MBA girls mediocre, I can assure you there were plenty of girls on that trip that were not in business school and not mediocre that love to booze it up and probably get around a bit. Your mileage may vary, lol.
Regards
What does a b-school girl's appearance have to do with anything?
Can you please let me know your name so I can tell my girl friends going to Wharton this fall what a dickbag you are? Thanks.
Sure. I will tell you my name if you tell me yours so i can tell my girlfriend going to HBS about you. Does that sound fair?
This is WSO, not Jezebel. No need to get defensive about guys ratings girls based on their looks.
Would be pretty funny if mbavsmfin's gf goes to a yatch trip with the Harvard dbags and falls for one of them. His worst nightmare will come true.
I'm seriously considering dumping my gf soon.
You will regret it.
Stanford GSB is going to Yacht Week - 50 of my boyfriend's classmates. Aug 17-24, Greece route. Maybe see some other schools there! Can the other schools post where and when they are going?
Booth has the "random-walk"s staggering the week of Aug 17-24. So there shouldn't be any Boothie at these dates.
Hmmm. I could go after my internship this summer.
Naaah. Think I'm gonna stay around Lake Michigan/Lake Superior, work on getting certified for technical scuba diving, and visit some awesome wrecks at deco depths.
Pfft. Who needs Greece. The Midwest has a lot more interesting stuff to do. :D
Illini, what SCUBA certs do you have? I hear diving in the Red Sea is great...so what you really need to do is go yachting there and you can SCUBA from the yacht. :0
I dove off Sharm el Sheikh in the Red Sea a few years ago. It's a beautiful area but it was also only my 2nd or 3rd dive after getting basic open water certified so we didn't go anywhere particularly exotic.
Rescue, Nitrox, Drysuit. Done a fair amount of coldwater diving.
I will never be organized enough to dive the Andrea Doria, but the St. Albans @ 160 feet is something I can probably do safely with a carefully planned deco dive.
I'm trying to send a private message to MilitaryToFinance and IlliniProgrammer but I don't have 10 banana points yet. I only have my OW, but out of curiosity, where did you guys get your certs? One day I want to do Socorro, Sardine Run, and Palau. One day...
http://www.personalscubatraining.net/
Aquawookie on scubaboard.com
Costs about $100 more than a class with ten students at panaqua, but worth every penny. Paul does a private or semi-private course and takes the time to do it right and with a reasonable standard of care.
Takes two or three good weekends with Paul, and you can crank out drysuit diving, if you choose, at the same time. (Recommended if you plan on diving north of 35° on a regular basis).
If you're thrifty, I used to swim at the same pool that panaqua uses for their training. I haven't seen them do anything bad. I just think CESAs and OOAs are better learnt when there aren't ten other people in the class fighting for the instructor's attention.
http://panaqua.com/
Both Paul and PanAqua do their open water dives at Dutch Springs. The entrance fee is on top of the course price.
http://dutchsprings.com/
If you plan on diving in the northeast, I strongly recommend getting your AOW dive cert. Many boats require it to dive off the NJ or NY coast. For some of the deeper (but still rec limit) dives in Lake Michigan, they want to see AOW AND ~10-20 dives AND prior OW dives in the past 12 months.
If you're diving in FL or Mexico, they don't really care. But it's good to get experience on deeper dives with coldwater diving.
Does anyone know where in Croatia? If I had to guess, I would say they're most likely having it in Makarska.
Can somebody please talk brady off the ledge now
i had heard good things about yacht week however now that it appears to have become a business school networking event i think i can safely cross it off my list of things to do. running into a yacht full of harvard MBAs on vacation is the stuff of nightmares.
Way too harsh Bondarb. Most HBS students (top b-schools in general) are smart interesting people who also know how to let loose.
Thanks Illini, good stuff!
Made a thread in the "Other" forum for SCUBA diving so I don't hijack this one. Thanks guys
You should all just take the $200K you're spending on bschool and just buy the damn yacht that you're overpaying to rent. I'm sure you can network and make plently of lifelong friendships on your $2M boat that you co-own.
j/k... sort of... but not really...
Bumping this thread. Anyone going to the Greek islands yacht week in early August?
Are you going?
Yes
The last thing I would want to do before starting school is to hang out with a bunch of stiffs. WHEN I get accepted into my dream school I'm off to Africa on safaris and shit...start in Cairo and end in Capetown. You gotta get away from the bullshit sometimes so you can be ready to jump back into it when you have to.
The whole "top MBA students are stiffs" meme is totally exaggerated. Most of them are a pretty fun group. I think yacht week will be on par with the craziest parties you would find at say usc, arizona, asu, ut austin. Looking forward to it.
Damn it I want to go to yacht week
It's not that expensive. Go with a group of friends who make decent cash or apply and get into a top b-school and go with your classmates.
The cost isn't the issue. I can find guys that are down. The issue is finding enough girls to go to balance out the gender requirement.
yeah potentially, but at 5x the cost (or whatever people pay to get there...)
Who cares about the cost. YOLO.
Why anyone would want to go on the one week where you're guaranteed the place will be chock full of nothing but nerdy dudes? I have absolutely no clue.
It's not just MBA students who will be there. Lot of rich successful alphas from all over the world and of course, tons of hot chicks. It's going to be truly epic on all fronts.
I still cling to the hope that you are an incredibly talented troll.
dare to dream
You don't actually mean this, do you?
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