Death, Taxes, and MBA Admissions Essays
Writing MBA admissions essays seems like a giant, time sucking, stress inducing experience that admissions committees created to amuse themselves by inducing your suffering (the word is ‘schadenfreude’ if you want to sound smart). However, the reality is that they use the essays to separate the men and women from the boys and girls. […]
What is “Passion” to MBA Admissions Committees?
Passion. It inspires an emotional, arousing, and intense response right? Literature, media, and advertising have so shaped, or even skewed, our understanding of passion – evoking images of desire or romance. Many would even associate the word with a Mel Gibson Braveheart – style general addressing his troops before battle or a football coach in a pre-game huddle delivering that speech about the blood, sweat, and […]