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Welcome to your MBA journey!
First of all, congratulations on gaining admission to an MBA program that will provide you amazing opportunities over the next two years! Whether you are seeking to change careers, start a business, improve communities, build life-long relationships with exceptional people, or all of the above, you have a multitude of opportunities ahead of you.
How will you spend your time?
Business school offers opportunities that are difficult to even dream about – guest speakers who have run countries, or companies, or both, classes with Nobel prize winners, lab courses where you get to transform a company, small group dinners, entrepreneurship competitions, alumni interactions, recruiting dinners, and info sessions, etc., etc. etc.
The MBA experience is full of choices and there will be times (daily!) that these opportunities risk overwhelming even the most organized person. I remember from my own MBA at Chicago Booth, waking up and realizing that I had 40+ hours of amazing experiences to cram into a typical day, each of which would be once-in-a-quarter opportunities in my prior life.
Countless clients have faced similar questions and have best practices that you can benefit from. That’s why we created the 100 Week Sprint! We are eager to partner with you over the next two years to share insights about everything from career and personal development to health and wellness, practical life tips, academics, and financial decisions.
The 100 weeks of the program (it will go faster than it sounds!) offers several benefits:
• 58 weeks help you to save time
• 24 weeks help you to save money
• 50 weeks to help you to accelerate learning
• 53 weeks hep you to expand your network
• 36 weeks help you to stay well
So before we dive into specific tasks for making progress towards your goals, or share insights about networking, wellness, recruiting, managing your finances, or other critical aspects of your MBA (all of which we will do in coming weeks), your homework this week is to prepare yourself to learn. Of course, you're all ready to learn academically, given you are attending the programs you are. However, prepare yourself to learn through vulnerability as well... admitting you have room to expand your networking opportunities beyond your school, or that you have room to improve your wellness routines, or that you don't necessarily have all the answers on managing your finances or financial aid. The more you engage with 100 Week Sprint, helping others and asking questions, the more you will get out of it!
Excited to get started with you!
The 100 Week Sprint team
