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Location matters

By nistha | Published: August 26, 2010
I recently received mul­ti­ple inquiries from prospec­tive appli­cants as to ‘why NYU’? This either means they want me to do their home­work for Essay2 or they cant believe a tal­ented per­son like me went to Stern or some­thing more enig­matic. I have 2 words for them — loca­tion mat­ters. NYU may or may not be [...]
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MBA for entrepreneurs

By nistha | Published: August 17, 2010
I can’t fix every­thing, orig­i­nally uploaded by Street_Spirit. I thought now is a good time to wish luck to all 2011 MBA appli­cants as well as fel­low MBA stu­dents since our offi­cial Fall ses­sion starts this Mon­day. Let me not blow it out of pro­por­tion but I am quite excited to be a stu­dent again [...]
Also posted in BSchool Prep | Tagged Entrepreneurship, MBA, photoblog, venture capital | 2 Comments

MBA Reapplication: flashback

By nistha | Published: May 26, 2010
Around this time last year, after my wait­list denials, I was debat­ing whether to reap­ply for MBA or seek other paths. Being a career switcher, com­pli­ca­tions involved in H1B visa and poor job mar­ket made it clear within weeks that there was no other way for me. But more impor­tantly, I fig­ured out that only [...]
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