Ubquitious and Stochastic.
Two words that I hear almost every single day in my MBA program. Oh and discover your brand, but that another topic for another blog.
For those of you who don't have your dictionaries out here it is
ubiquitous: all-encompassing,seeming to be everywhere at once, omnipresent.
stochastic: random, varying
I have heard both words in a variety of classes on a variety of topics, from the mouths of many Ph.D professors. This could be about brand management, marketing, operations management, economy of business decisions, it is well ubiquitous. And I sat up late one night, (many nights) I realized with a jump, my MBA program is both ubiquitous and stochastic. Why you ask? Well everything we learn about in class, has real life applications and so in every point of my day, I know what business school would tell me to do about meeting someone, business school would tell me how to tackle a busy schedule, or homework, or even friendship. Now, this information is worth every penny (and believe me it's a lot of pennies) but I do feel like I am receiving a leg up from other employees in the business world. And so my MBA learning is ubiquitious.
Stay with me now. The crazy great part of the program is in life you work a "8:30-5", you know sometimes you will be busy and sometimes you won't be as busy, but have you ever tested the limits? Do you know exactly how much you can achieve? Do you know what stress will cause you to break down? Could you do a paper, a test, prepare two cases, and two articles all for one 3 hour class? Would you still be prepared for the next class? What are your limits?
So now we've come to the stochastic part. Sometimes there will be a week where there is nothing due, you look at your organizer over and over incredulously looking for what you missed, but nothing is there. But then you have weeks were you are not sure if it will ever end. You have so much stuff to complete and on a deadline. You're not even sure that you will make it. But you do. Stochastic.
Can you handle extreme variation, can you handle something that may change the core of how you live your everyday life? Can you take the MBA program?
Two words that I hear almost every single day in my MBA program. Oh and discover your brand, but that another topic for another blog.
For those of you who don't have your dictionaries out here it is
ubiquitous: all-encompassing,seeming to be everywhere at once, omnipresent.
stochastic: random, varying
I have heard both words in a variety of classes on a variety of topics, from the mouths of many Ph.D professors. This could be about brand management, marketing, operations management, economy of business decisions, it is well ubiquitous. And I sat up late one night, (many nights) I realized with a jump, my MBA program is both ubiquitous and stochastic. Why you ask? Well everything we learn about in class, has real life applications and so in every point of my day, I know what business school would tell me to do about meeting someone, business school would tell me how to tackle a busy schedule, or homework, or even friendship. Now, this information is worth every penny (and believe me it's a lot of pennies) but I do feel like I am receiving a leg up from other employees in the business world. And so my MBA learning is ubiquitious.
Stay with me now. The crazy great part of the program is in life you work a "8:30-5", you know sometimes you will be busy and sometimes you won't be as busy, but have you ever tested the limits? Do you know exactly how much you can achieve? Do you know what stress will cause you to break down? Could you do a paper, a test, prepare two cases, and two articles all for one 3 hour class? Would you still be prepared for the next class? What are your limits?
So now we've come to the stochastic part. Sometimes there will be a week where there is nothing due, you look at your organizer over and over incredulously looking for what you missed, but nothing is there. But then you have weeks were you are not sure if it will ever end. You have so much stuff to complete and on a deadline. You're not even sure that you will make it. But you do. Stochastic.
Can you handle extreme variation, can you handle something that may change the core of how you live your everyday life? Can you take the MBA program?
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