snapshot from hell
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Snapshots From HELL
The making of an MBASachin ChaudharyPGDM2/1528
PETER ROBINSON
Came from a small town VESTAL
Giving up all the responsibilities of the white house to go to STANFORD BUSINESS SCHOOL
Used to write speeches for president
Has a experience in law, politics and journalism
Stanford INFERNO begins
OBAccounts
Was optimistic until the notice came
Lim f(x)X c
Inside classroom
Entire term was a punishment for him
Decision making
micro eco computers
Used to go 15 min early to get the 3rd row
Instead of stories books in the library also contains data
I don’t understand
• TREES (stats)• Computers• Eco • Accounts
I do understand OB , but I don’t like it
What am I doing here?
Question in his
mind
Studentlife
Class room
Café teria
Lib rary
Life in the classroom was intense,
life outside was also not so easy
Painful subjectsNO
Family
Series of lectures
A , B , C , D , E
P Pass P + Better than passableP - Somewhere worseU Unsatisfactory H Distinction
GRADES
Week Before Exam Week of exam
MID - TERM
Result
Passed Distinction Unsatisfactory
Accounts
Micro – eco
computers
OB
Stats
(8th from bottom)
STOCKHOLM SYNDROME & THE FINALS
I am responsible for my failure not STANDFORD
Cut sleep Meeting with faculty Advice
CLEAR PICTURE
CHRISTMAS BREAK
Party over
& back to the hell CV’s &
Summer interview Investment banking job –
but nothing to do with his ideas
• One elective and four core courses
• Has to deal with case studies which alone take 10-10 hrs
SPRING TERM
Stanford contradiction
• On the one hand everyone was trying to outperform each other to get the best grades
• On the other hand Stanford ask everyone to
Help-their-neighbour
Summary• First year of the b school brought together a diverse group of students who
underwent an intensive and distinct experience• By the winter term everyone was physically present but their minds were
somewhere else, they were on the jobs
• 3 categories of students
Who got the job by the second year
booking for the jobs and throwing themselves in the second year jobs interviews
“independent job search” – they either could not or would not get any job from campus
Essence
Snapshot from the hell as the name suggest started as kind of personal nightmare as he has to grappled to adjust a world full of calculus and case studies but ends with enthusiastic embrace of the business school experience.
• Business school are not difficult, the difficult is the level of competition at business school.
• Most of the hard work didn’t come from trying to understand the material, but from trying to understand the material better than our peers .
• First part of the book is talking about the difference between poets and no poets of the place. Poets- remedial for maths and CS while no poets were engineers and other science background.
• Later part of the book seems more interesting when he got a job but after doing 10 weeks of jobs he realized investment banking wasn’t for him.