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January 20, 2005
The Inevitable Opening Salvo of Suckiness
In which I go back to school for the last last time, and am reminded why most people don't like MBAs
Went to the first class of my final semester as a grad student this morning. I was pretty fired up for the class in specific, and relatively enthusiastic about returning to school in general. It's the final semester and I have a great roster of classes -- this term would be all about thinking and learning. It would be chill.
But no.
Twenty-eight minutes into the ninety-minute class, following a brief introduction and survey of the course syllabus, the professor asked the class if there were any questions. A hand shot up.
"Yes?"
"I have a question."
"Go ahead...."
"Will the exam be take-home or in-class?"
ARGHGRH!! AHGHAGH!!! UHGHGUGHJGGUHGAHG!!!!!!!
UGHYTEHRYHHGGG? GGUSHETSHJSH??? SHSHGIFGOIHO!!!!!!!
&@#$@&#%!!!.....IUGHHGUHGUH!!!!!
(This is me having a seizure.)
This is it. Our final semester. No potential employer is going to ask you about your grades. No one cares. We're here to learn and enjoy. That's all. Soak it up. After this semester, we'll be vomited back into the job market for the final time. We will literally never have it this good again -- so sit back and enjoy. BUT NO! All this poltroon can come up with is a question about the exam format, and, more specifically, the implicit request that the exam should surely be a "take-home" test and that anything more would be ridiculously burdensome. UNBELIEVABLE. I was embarrassed. For her, for all of us. Is this really the best we can do? Is this it?
Ugh. And the worst part is that the poltroon in question went to the same place for undergrad as I did. She is absolutely brand-damaging for said undergraduate institution, let alone my current education brand (which, in all fairness, I don't take as seriously because the exercise of b-school is a bit vo-tech for my tastes). Unreal. I felt like marching her over to the admissions office and demanding to know precisely who was responsible for her. WHICH ONE OF YOU DID THIS? WHO? WHO?!?!?!?!
And then I remembered that there's a reason why most people don't care for folks with MBAs. And I can't say that I blame them.
Posted by thatkid at January 20, 2005 12:13 PM under
MBAwesome!
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