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A Recent Grad Refelects On His Stanford GSB Experience

This interview is the latest in an Accepted.com blog series featuring  interviews with current MBA students, offering readers a behind-the-scenes look at  top MBA programs. And now for a follow up interview with Tim Eisenman, who just completed the MBA program at Stanford GSB. We first met Tim last year – you can read our first interview with him here.) Accepted: Last we spoke you were in the middle of your first year at Stanford GSB, and now youve just received your MBA congrats! Can you bring us up to speed? How was your last year and a half? Tim: Sure, it is so scary to think that the last time we talked is already 1.5 years ago. As you said, I graduated about a month ago and was fortunate enough to have my parents and my sister from Germany with me. Right now I am in New York looking for an apartment and getting to know the city before I start my job at McKinsey in fall. I am also volunteering at a kids soccer camp in Manhattan three days a week and am thinking about writing a book. As you can see – I can’t just do nothing. Highlights from last year are moving off-campus into a house with classmates from Austria, Japan, Turkey, Brasil and Argentina and having amazing BBQ parties as well as developing really close friendships to some GSBers through 1:1s or runs along the Bay. On the academic side, developing the first ever GSB â€Å"Travel and Hospitality Industry† elective with a former co-worker of mine was amazing. We will teach the class again this fall. Accepted: Which clubs or activities were you involved with on campus? How central to student life is club involvement? Tim: Club involvement was crucial to my GSB experience – both from a professional perspective, but also as a way to get to know likeminded classmates. I was heavily involved in the â€Å"Travel Hospitality Club† and the â€Å"Stanford Africa Business Forum.† The Travel Club gave me the opportunity to network with high-profile execs in the airline industry, who also come and speak at our travel class. At the GSB, it is not only what the school can give to you, but also what you can give back through your background. Aviation was a great example for that and I believe that we really strengthened the industry exposure of the school for years to come. Working on the â€Å"Africa Business Forum† was amazing, because I was the only non-African on the team and therefore learnt a lot about different cultural working styles. That team really came together strong at the end and we created an amazing conference. Accepted: Looking back, what would you say was the most challenging aspect of business school? How would you advise others who may be facing that challenge? Tim: Figuring out what you want to get out of school was most challenging. I remember double- or even triple-booking my lunch breaks for the first couple of weeks. Everything sounds interesting and you do not want to miss out. What I came to realize though is that I can’t be fully present for several things at the same time and that I needed to prioritize. At the end I was fine taking a 2 hour walk with a classmate and missing Mitt Romney speak – that classmate is going to turn into a lifelong friend and I am totally fine not having a picture with Mitt on my Facebook wall. If you have time before going off to school make a list with things that are important to you – don’t forget to include sleep, healthy food, exercise and so on. If business school helps you get into the habit of exercising daily then this is a great achievement. Not everything has to be career related. Accepted: What did you end up doing for your summer internship last year? Can you talk about the process by which you obtained your internship? How does it work at Stanford? Tim: I worked for McKinsey in London and went through very straightforward on-campus recruiting. A lot of classmates got their internship less formally through networking and knocking on doors of interesting companies. Stanford helps with that process through events (such as the â€Å"Fewer than 300 Employees Event†) targeting smaller companies that might not want to set up a booth right next to GE and BCG. I also did a one-month GMIX, a social impact immersion, working for a mushroom company in Kigali that was founded by a GSBer and that I had worked for before school already. The founder and I have become close friends and this January he offered me to join his board. He graduated twenty years ago and stayed at my house for his reunion this spring. It’s amazing how tight so many of the Stanford connections can get. Accepted: Whats next for you? Where will your MBA bring you? Tim: As I said, I will join McKinsey in their New York office this fall working mostly on airline and transportation topics. Eventually I will go back into the industry and hope to take on a leadership role someday. Aviation is not a traditional post-MBA industry, but given that there are no real low-cost airlines in Africa, that there are very few ultra-low-cost long haul carriers and that there is huge room for consolidation, I believe that industry dynamics will continue to shift. I want to be a part of that and feel that the out-of-the-box thinking at Stanford is a great asset for me to have when the time comes. On the side I will continue to engage in the for-profit social impact sphere in Africa and who knows? Maybe I will get bored in the developed world and take a big leap to work in an underdeveloped African country. I like to have options as I see that traditional picture of a ladder of success being antiquated. It is much rather a climbing wall of success. Instead of going up, going sideways might actually make more sense sometimes. Accepted: Are you still blogging? Tim: I am still blogging, but I have slowed down and it is on my to-do list to get back into it again. Everyone talks about the power of journaling at Stanford. It is nice to sometimes just reflect about a topic through writing about it. To read more about Tim’s journey, please check out his blog, From PA to the World. Thank you Tim for sharing your story with us and we wish you lots of luck! For one-on-one guidance on your b-school applications, please see our MBA Application Packages. Related Resources: †¢Ã‚  Stanford GSB 2016 MBA Essay Tips Deadlines †¢Ã‚  Understanding Stanford GSB’s Interest In Personal Qualities And Contributions †¢Ã‚  4 Ways to Show How You’ll Contribute in the Future

The Right Questions to Ask When Writing a Research Paper on Race Topics

The Right Questions to Ask When Writing a Research Paper on Race TopicsRace Topics Research Paper topics, as you might imagine, are concerned with questions of race and ethnicity. Some people in the US seem to believe that the events that I am about to discuss are newsworthy because they deal with controversial issues such as the effects of slavery or the atrocities of the KKK.This is not the case and I do not want to make it out to be the case. The correct title for my research paper would be 'Discrimination in an Opt-In, Non-Biased Future' which could have been written by anyone in this country. I am writing this article in an attempt to find a way to express how I feel about the subject. I was given the opportunity to participate in an online survey with a reputable company concerning my feelings on these topics.I believe that the past is the best possible tool for examining what may not happen in the future. In other words, the history of America is too extensive to ignore. We ha ve historical documents and other historical resources that will help us understand our own time in an unbiased way.If you are considering writing a research paper on any topic that has to do with race, you might consider this opportunity to explore the various records of past and present. You can even write an entire essay, if you choose to. My feelings about my research topic are of no concern to anyone, except perhaps to those who are looking for some sort of political agenda.However, if you are a person who is interested in exploring the issues of racial discrimination, then you should write a research paper on this topic. On the surface it may appear to be a debatable topic, but it is in fact one of the most important topics that need to be addressed in our society. Racism is not a phenomenon that just occurred in the past; it exists today. People who are engaged in the practice of racism and prejudice are living in the present and they are likely to be living in your town, cit y, state, or even nation in the future.Racists and other bigots are living in all parts of the world and those who support the promotion of white supremacy may move to other countries where they can continue their bigotry. They will try to develop new prejudices and agendas against minorities in their home countries. By doing so, they hope to spread their prejudices to their own societies. This is why people say that racism and prejudice live side by side in all societies and cultures, and that most problems occur in the present.Unfortunately, most people in positions of power and influence are not used to having a bad position and are therefore predisposed to put the interests of others before their own. Their logic seems to be that if it hurts someone, it is best to be supportive. In their eyes, it is better to be wrong than to be right. Therefore, you should be thinking about the future, because no one knows what life is going to bring.You should write a research paper on these t opics so that your analysis will be fair and accurate. I was fortunate enough to have been given an opportunity to work with a company who believes in the important of researching topics related to prejudice and racism in order to better society. This company had allowed me to write an analysis of my personal views on these topics so that it would be effective as a research paper.