On the flip side, the one thing I would not change is the Johnson School's ability to attract some of the best student entrepreneurs. It is not uncommon to find classmates who have started companies prior to business school and/or currently run a business. Among the most successful I've met this year:
Emilie Liebhoff '07 – Founder/Director, Hoops for Hopes, Moms As Mentors (leadership sports camps)
Adam Hocherman '06 - Founder/CEO/Inventor, American Innovative (
www.americaninnovative.com)
Ash Vaidya '07 – Co-founder/Director of Business Development, eWebUniversity (Enterprise eLearning Software –
www.ewebuniversity.com)
Does Cornell have social events such as Fuqua Fridays, Kellogg's Friday evening party, or UVA's First Coffee?Yes. Along with the student population being generally warm and sociable themselves, events are also formally scheduled either through the Student Association, Student Council, and various other clubs. In addition to these and the aforementioned grad school happy hours, there is daily coffee break in the Sage Hall Atrium, which brings together students, faculty and staff, united by a dependency on free caffeine.
What's with all the [expletive] about community at the Johnson School? Are you guys really that tight?The first semester is tough. Attempting to combine business school with a personal life only invites more stress and anxiety. And while not everyone has to have a Mary J. Blige moment, I can best convey Johnson's community and friendship through my own experience.
Right before finals week in December, I lost a very dear person to cancer. The father of a childhood friend, this was a wonderful man who watched me grow up, treated me as his own daughter, and before I left for school, asked me to make him proud. Around the time of his death, I removed myself, mentally and physically, from everything business school and instead, relied solely on the familiar comfort of family and friends from home.
Regardless, the friendships I did have at Johnson were important to me and proved to be equally comforting. Making a gradual return back to the business school world, I began to understand that my MBA friends were not MBA friends, but simply, my friends. One e-mail, in particular, brought this to light. It read:
"Know that you and your friend are constantly in my thoughts, more importantly in my prayers. Life is has a mysterious way of taking care of our loved ones. Rest assured that there will be a moment when all makes sense, when all is right, and you are at peace. It is those moments that we realize the most beautiful emotion, the one not seen, it is love…We love you."It was really one the best things that someone could've done for me at that time. In short, my answer is yes. We are that tight.
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