Spring Break
50 Things Everyone Should Do Before They Graduate
A Crash Course to Getting the Most Out of HBS
Alex Godden (NJ), Viewpoints Editor
Issue date: 3/12/07 Section: Viewpoints & Humor
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1. Teach a classmate something about your country, state or hometown
2. Do something that scares you (e.g. hangliding, wallclimbing, asking a sectionmate on a date)
3. Learn a new skill unrelated to your MBA (squash, skiing, flip cup, how to tie a knot in a cherry stem with your tongue...)
4. Take all of the keys off of your laptop and move them around to improve your typing skills
5. Go to class not having read the case at all, just so you chill out a bit about case preparation by finding out it isn't so bad
6. Visit Boston (you think I'm joking..?)
7. Have a conversation with a Professor about something unrelated to the course
8. Write an article for the Harbus (it can't be hard if they let me do it!)
9. Understand the bit in the TOM Cranberry case about trucks (including the graph)
10. Stop being impressed by people who know Excel shortcuts
11. Stop being impressed by people who did Economics at undergrad and talk a lot in BGIE
12. Stop being impressed by ex-bankers who understand FIN
13. Stop being impressed by ex-consultants and their phenomenal ability to spout bunk
14. (Americans) Stop being impressed by how much International students know about International events
15. (International Students) Stop being surprised by how little Americans know about International events-can you name all 50 states?
16. (International Students) Stop making fun of how little Americans know about their own history. It's not their fault.
17. (Americans) Stop being impressed by how much International students know about U.S. history
18. Have lunch with some prospective students, and remember what it was like to feel that enthusiastic about HBS
19. Go to a Red Sox game
20. Go to a Celtics game
21. Go to a Bruins game
22. Go to a Harvard football game (and tailgate)
23. Reveal to your professor that you did your thesis on the topic of the case under discussion, just to see the look of fear in their eyes
24. Read a book recommended to you by a classmate
2. Do something that scares you (e.g. hangliding, wallclimbing, asking a sectionmate on a date)
3. Learn a new skill unrelated to your MBA (squash, skiing, flip cup, how to tie a knot in a cherry stem with your tongue...)
4. Take all of the keys off of your laptop and move them around to improve your typing skills
5. Go to class not having read the case at all, just so you chill out a bit about case preparation by finding out it isn't so bad
6. Visit Boston (you think I'm joking..?)
7. Have a conversation with a Professor about something unrelated to the course
8. Write an article for the Harbus (it can't be hard if they let me do it!)
9. Understand the bit in the TOM Cranberry case about trucks (including the graph)
10. Stop being impressed by people who know Excel shortcuts
11. Stop being impressed by people who did Economics at undergrad and talk a lot in BGIE
12. Stop being impressed by ex-bankers who understand FIN
13. Stop being impressed by ex-consultants and their phenomenal ability to spout bunk
14. (Americans) Stop being impressed by how much International students know about International events
15. (International Students) Stop being surprised by how little Americans know about International events-can you name all 50 states?
16. (International Students) Stop making fun of how little Americans know about their own history. It's not their fault.
17. (Americans) Stop being impressed by how much International students know about U.S. history
18. Have lunch with some prospective students, and remember what it was like to feel that enthusiastic about HBS
19. Go to a Red Sox game
20. Go to a Celtics game
21. Go to a Bruins game
22. Go to a Harvard football game (and tailgate)
23. Reveal to your professor that you did your thesis on the topic of the case under discussion, just to see the look of fear in their eyes
24. Read a book recommended to you by a classmate
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