Snapshots From HELL

The making of an MBASachin ChaudharyPGDM2/1528

PETER ROBINSON

Came from a small town VESTAL

Giving up all the responsibilities of the white house to go to STANFORD BUSINESS SCHOOL

Used to write speeches for president

Has a experience in law, politics and journalism

Stanford INFERNO begins

OBAccounts

Was optimistic until the notice came

Lim f(x)X c

Inside classroom

Entire term was a punishment for him

Decision making

micro eco computers

Used to go 15 min early to get the 3rd row

Instead of stories books in the library also contains data

I don’t understand

• TREES (stats)• Computers• Eco • Accounts

I do understand OB , but I don’t like it

What am I doing here?

Question in his

mind

Studentlife

Class room

Café teria

Lib rary

Life in the classroom was intense,

life outside was also not so easy

Painful subjectsNO

Family

Series of lectures

A , B , C , D , E

P Pass P + Better than passableP - Somewhere worseU Unsatisfactory H Distinction

GRADES

Week Before Exam Week of exam

MID - TERM

Result

Passed Distinction Unsatisfactory

Accounts

Micro – eco

computers

OB

Stats

(8th from bottom)

STOCKHOLM SYNDROME & THE FINALS

I am responsible for my failure not STANDFORD

Cut sleep Meeting with faculty Advice

CLEAR PICTURE

CHRISTMAS BREAK

Party over

& back to the hell CV’s &

Summer interview Investment banking job –

but nothing to do with his ideas

• One elective and four core courses

• Has to deal with case studies which alone take 10-10 hrs

SPRING TERM

Stanford contradiction

• On the one hand everyone was trying to outperform each other to get the best grades

• On the other hand Stanford ask everyone to

Help-their-neighbour

Summary• First year of the b school brought together a diverse group of students who

underwent an intensive and distinct experience• By the winter term everyone was physically present but their minds were

somewhere else, they were on the jobs

• 3 categories of students

Who got the job by the second year

booking for the jobs and throwing themselves in the second year jobs interviews

“independent job search” – they either could not or would not get any job from campus

Essence

Snapshot from the hell as the name suggest started as kind of personal nightmare as he has to grappled to adjust a world full of calculus and case studies but ends with enthusiastic embrace of the business school experience.

• Business school are not difficult, the difficult is the level of competition at business school.

• Most of the hard work didn’t come from trying to understand the material, but from trying to understand the material better than our peers .

• First part of the book is talking about the difference between poets and no poets of the place. Poets- remedial for maths and CS while no poets were engineers and other science background.

• Later part of the book seems more interesting when he got a job but after doing 10 weeks of jobs he realized investment banking wasn’t for him.