March 11, 2009
I've been remiss!
A lot has happened since my last entry. I decided to accept a Domestic Corps internship in Chicago this summer, with the National Foundation of Teaching Entrepreneurship, helping them devise a 5-year strategic plan for the organization. I was in the fortunate position of having to decide between two offers, the other having been from a socially responsible organic bottled tea producer in Maryland. The latter was an Operations position, which would have been but a minute departure from my previous pre-Ross experience, and so I chose to accept the non-profit position. More on that to come. It would seem that about half of our class remains internship-less, and on-campus recruiting has been reduced to a low hum rather than the frantic buzz it once was.
We are currently in the early stages of the MAP program. I'm on a team working with Rush University Medical Center in Chicago. While MAP is, in most years, about half international projects and many students get the opportunity to go abroad, this year the majority of the projects are domestic. My team will be spending about 3 non-consecutive weeks on site in Chicago, and we're already discussing making a trip to the Mayo Clinic at some point in the coming few weeks, for research. While this may seem disappointing to some of you, I assure you it's a relief to have the time to be home and cook and go to the gym and live a normal life this term. Indeed, most teams are sticking to a 9-5, M-F schedule throughout their MAP projects.
Course bidding also begins today. The first 3 quarters are Ross, MBA1s take classes that are, for the most part, assigned to them. There is some room for electives but it's minimal, and you're stuck with ones that have space reserved for first years on a first-come, first served basis. Going forward, we will bid for courses. This is kind of a scary proposition to me, since there is always the possibility of not getting the classes you need or want. Of course...if I sat down to look at the Fall A course offerings, I may feel a bit better about the process. :)
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