I’m having a difficult time right now in the program. I’m getting very disillusioned with the MBA process here for a variety of reasons.
I’ve never been a fan of the concept of having people do as much work as possible and calling that a learning experience. There’s a lot in this program I’m missing because of the way groups are set up. The design here is to throw as much work and as many learning objectives at us as possible and hope that some of them stick. The breadth of work is so vast that depth isn’t possible, and I feel like I’m not getting as much from this program as I deserve (and am paying for.) It’s for that reason that I feel like I couldn’t recommend this program at this time.
I was told by an administrative staff member the other day that this is a professional degree, so it’s not just academics - it’s networking and career activities, too. And I’d better start doing all three if I want to get the most out of the program. If that means going from a 3.6 GPA to a 3.5, well… so be it.
That rankled me. We’re all feeling overwhelmed by the workload right now (it’s not just me) and the amount of ourselves that we can put into our projects is dwindling quickly to zero. There are health effects, too. It’s hitting us all, and I don’t like it. In all fairness, the faculty is starting to see this and maybe one day in the future it’ll get fixed.
