Useless facts about London Business School, part 1
Facts you never wanted to know about London Business School, but that I find interesting/surprising/why the h**l didn't anyone tell me about these before I came out?/annoying and since this is my blog, I've decided to write them down.
* B-school is a prime hunting ground for freebies. So far the list of freebies includes free t-shirts (three and counting), mugs (one), pens (at least 8, I lost count), food (at least 8 meals already), entertainment (talent night, sundowners once a week), alcohol (see sundowners, once a week), bags (one), photo albums (one), newspapers (Wall Street Journal daily) and magazines (Time Out Student, B-week). Would it be horrible if I said that I'd love for a company to distibute pencils instead of pens? I love writing with pencils and it'll make you stand out from the company-crowd. And I need some more pencils. Give me some pencils!
* Certain study rooms are definitely better than other rooms, but that secret is best kept to myself, since otherwise I'll never get a spot in them...
* Of all the places in and around campus to eat, the Biz is definitely the best place to grab something. For 4 pounds you get a hot meal, with tea/coffee and soft drinks and as much salad as you can eat. I know of one blogger that lives of these meals (and it ain't me)...
* Although not particular for London Business School, this is something I want to mention since no one warned me about this: be aware of the post-admissions blues. Once you're admitted, figured out where you want to go and got your finances in order, you hit a slump. Work somehow isn't exciting knowing that you'll leave in a couple of months, and you're not at b-school yet. Be warned. Find something fun to do in the meantime. Sell your stuff. Go out with your friends as often as you can, since once you hit b-school you will have hardly any time left for that.
* Why is it that percentage wise more women than men are single at b-school? Is this just a London phenomenon? Or does this happen at all schools? Has it got something to do with the biological clock?
* Will there ever be a part two to this useless facts? Hmmm, dunno. Depends on whether I will think of more stuff and I can say with a 95% confidence interval that I probably will (yes, this is all meant as an elaborate diversion in order to prevent me from doing my Stats homework).
posted by divinemissN @ 10/28/2005 06:02:00 PM
5 Comments:
Rusgirl had a great explanation on why there are more single girls than boys in bschool.
Maybe you should do a regression model with your dependent variable being “success of a company presentation on campus” and all your independent variables being different types of freebies they bring with them (pen, pencils, mugs, keychains, etc…). If your r-square is high enough and the coefficient of pencil is higher than the rest then you can bring up that point to the career service so that recruiters bring pencils next time.
Who said we’ll never need stats in our lives ;-) Oh wait…that was me…lol
Hi N
Couple takes:
Too true about the good study rooms
On the single women issue: I'll be they'll also own more cats over the long run too.
I've found the single woman to cat ratio to be far higher than the single men to cat ratio or married folks.
Irrelevant add on to your thoughts. Delete if necessary. :)
Nice jab in there about the confidence interval :)
I'll accordingly try not to incorporate anything b-school-ish into my comment, since we have a week off @ Rice ...
Enjoyed reading your blog and plan to be back. I'm from a b-school in Texas and myself and a friend just started our own blog (see http://mbachronicle.blogspot.com). You are more than welcome to visit anytime!
I'll check back later; keep up the frequent posts!
Oh, yes, I did explain about being single at B-School :)
Not all that bad. I read about a French woman, with husband and two children, who left her husband working in France and switched to Singapore campus of INSEAD, taking her children with her for a year. And daddy came for a visit. It was more easier to find a nanny in Singapore. And cheaper :)
Anyway, to the pencils :) Was at INSEAD meeting yesterday, and they gave out free pencils. Maybe you have chosen the wrong school? (no! I'm just joking! :)) you belong to LBS and pencils will come, since everyone who reads your blog will provide you one. And no, I didn't wish to give anyone an idea ;)).
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