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You got that right. Your blogger is P.I.S.S.E.D. Reason? Unresourceful, lazy classmates who make constant excuses and do mediocre work. Given that we’ve been working professionals before our MBA, you wonder why they wouldn’t be better at work. Yes yes, I know everyone has different motivations from getting an MBA, but seriously, how can people […]
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My Taiwanese best friend/cum sister has changed her mind again, and it’s driving me nuts. She saw how life has changed for me after I transfered to Hong Kong, and wanted the same for her. She feels that it’s easier to get a boyfriend in Hong Kong and that her career will take off. Instead […]
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This morning, I awoke early at 6:30 am to be at the American Chamber’s Women in Business awards at the Four Seasons Hotel Hong Kong. The half-day conference started off with a bang with Ms. Angelina Kwan, MD of a regulator/compliance advisory company, jokingly quipped that if Lehman Brothers were led by more women (e.g., if […]
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The wonderful thing of getting older is that you have so many more choices. You can chose the types of restaurants you want to go to, clothes you want to where, places you want to visit. However, in the midst of all these choices, we realize that we ourselves have some limits as well. For […]
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MBA is really about good time management. Though our semester consists of merely five (5) classes a week at 3.5 hour per class weekly, we’ve been swamped with a myriad of groupwork, networking opportunities and extra-curricular events. I don’t know about you but I only have 24 hours a day. Let me give you an […]
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Dear mom and dad, How are things at home? MBA life has been quite exhausting to date. Aside from balancing my extracurricular activities, networking and multiple, never-ending group meetings, we are constantly barraged by 7-chapter Data Analysis quizzes, a regression case that we haven’t even discussed yet in class, a few papers, a marketing case […]
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It’s funny – a month after starting MBA, some long-term, long-distances are starting to unravel. Whilst many people came into an MBA in a relationship, for some reason, a handful are now either “on a break,” or reverted to a status of “it’s complicated.” It does make me think though — what is it about […]
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How do you define success in an MBA? The last couple of days had led me to really question about how success can be portrayed in an MBA. How do you know that you’ve really maximized your MBA experience? “It really depends on how much jump your salary enjoys on your first job after MBA,” […]
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In an MBA program, we have tons of opportunities to work in a group. Preasently, in the five classes we’re having in this 1.5-month half semester, we have groupworks done for three of them. A group is both an opportunity and a challenge. It is an opportunity because you have multiple means to gain deeper […]
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It’s a Friday evening and I have chosen to stay at home and work on my economics assignment. As usual, there is our regular batch of classmates going out to party in LKF. “Come on Bonita,” one classmate invited, “It’s a Friday night!” The issue was that I’ve made such a big deal about coming […]
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I was talking to one grad student today and she mentioned that she was part of the “statistic.” When I asked her what she meant, she mentioned that she was one of the many who came in business school with a significant other somewhere, somehow broke up in the span of the schoolyear, and hooked […]
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The facilities here at HKUST has been quite impressive. Not only do we have a spectacular view of Clearwater Bay, but it’s also home to a gorgeous library, where silence is king. I’ve spent a few hours today in the library. It’s my first time for me to really study here since school started. More […]
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