As an itinerant cattle rancher from Colorado who went to college in LA, traveled extensively in Europe, spent four years in San Francisco and eighteen months at HBS I feel like I've seen a few things. Like me, many of us arrive at HBS secured by our accomplishments, believing that we are wiser, worldlier and generally more experienced than most of our peers and elders.
Over the winter break, I went with 99 HBS students and partners on the India Trek. While the trip was filled with very interesting and fun experiences, one stop on our tour stood out from the rest - our trip to the Rajugella village. My words won't do the story justice, but try to picture this.
Why do people really come to HBS? Is it for the academics? Is it for networking? Is it to figure out how to defraud the banking system? No. We come here to socialize and you know it. EC students are planning to tap into the common social nature of HBS students to raise $200,000 for Tsunami relief.
Case work started early for a few ECs this semester when they traveled to Houston to take part in the 5th Annual Rice University Marketing Case Competition. "It was the most intense 48 hours I've spent in marketing," said Darcy Raymond (OA), "but I can't think of a better way to spend my Friday and Saturday nights.
Everyone loves wireless. It's a beautiful thing, no wires. Reminds me of when my younger brother got sick of dial up cables and wanted to buy a computer with the whole Internet already on it. Great idea. Speaking of which, the campus wireless network underwent a massive overhaul last summer.