I am about 8 weeks in to my first quarter at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. It's been crazy.
I am taking two classes: Business Statistics and New Venture Strategy. New Venture Strategy is an entrepreneurship class in which I have learned how to evaluate whether or not an idea is good enough to become profitable, and how to strategize in order to make the idea succeed. I have enjoyed the class immensely! It's my first time working with a group. In college, working in groups meant working on our problem sets together, but handing them in separately - probably the reason my college grades were mediocre.
The University of Chicago is different. Everyone is so smart and hardworking, it makes me want to keep up and do my part. Not that it's hard - everything I've learned is new and fascinating!
I am looking forward to taking a couple of more challenging classes in my second quarter - Financial Econometrics and Financial Statement Analysis.
Even more interesting than the classes are the outside-of-class events. This weekend, I attended a social impact investing seminar, followed by a quarterly graduate women in business event. My favorite events so far have been the Investment Management conference, the Booth Women Connect conference, Networking like a Rockstar, and the Fine Art of Small Talk. I have come out of each of these events with one or two things I think I can remember and take with me to work and for future networking opportunities.
Just one final stands between me and the holiday break - then on to quarter 2!