Havard 2+2

Graduate School Business School - MBA
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<p>I am a recent admit to 2+2. The experience overall has been good. Support from HBS in terms of facilitating networking between classmates, sharing best practices for job hunting, etc. has been great. As you mentioned, HBS does pair you with a "Career Coach" who helps you develop job search strategies and who is available to answer questions throughout the process.</p>

<p>Your Career Coach DOES NOT find you a job, however. While HBS has a lot of "Recruiting Partners" who are interested in receiving resumes from 2+2 Program participants, these jobs are far from easy to get...especially in this economy. Your own personal networking/internship experiences are far more important than the help that HBS gives you in finding a job. I wish that I would have recognized how important this was prior to getting into the program...I might have started my job search earlier in the semester. I have a feeling that a lot of my future classmates will end up taking jobs that are not with Recruiting Partners. I've only had an interview or two thus far and am really trying to leverage my network trying to find opportunities...it's really tough. Again, I think that this is largely a subset of this economy, but I think that this is useful to keep in mind (especially for those applying to next year's 2+2 cohort).</p>

<p>Hope that helps. Feel free to let me know if you have any additional questions.</p>

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<p>so I am guessing this 2+2 program isn't available to B.Com students? Can anyone clarify?</p>

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<p>Wildflower, you still haven't explained why the timelines indicated by your old posts (those cited by Keefer) do not tally with the fact that you have already graduated from HBS.</p>

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<p>He's clearly gone into hiding, but this is much better than that weird phase where he got caught, ignores clear proof that he lied, and went about as if nothing happened.</p>

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<p>Wildflower is a she.</p>

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<p>ryojin, why did you have to bump this?</p>

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<p>"Wildflower, you still haven't explained why the timelines indicated by your old posts (those cited by Keefer) do not tally with the fact that you have already graduated from HBS."</p>

<p>Neither do I have to. Get over it. </p>

<p>"He's clearly gone into hiding, but this is much better than that weird phase where he got caught, ignores clear proof that he lied, and went about as if nothing happened."</p>

<p>No, I have not. I just have a tendency to ignore dumb people--and envious people. When it's both, well, sometimes I address them. But it's unlikely they'll realize they are either--no matter how you put it to them.</p>

<p>"Wildflower is a she."</p>

<p>Thank you, Cbreeze. At least someone knows how to read on this forum.</p>

<p>"ryojin, why did you have to bump this?"</p>

<p>I am personally amused. Again, I am flattered by all the attention, but, frankly I am sure you can find more interesting things to do than stalk an anonymous online forum poster who doesn't disclose personal details about herself. But you'll do what you'll do, just like that obese person that keeps on going to McDonalds, usually drive-thru.</p>

<p>But also, this is beyond thread-jacking. why don't you start a thread in my name? I'll be honored. Some writers don't get their words scrutinized until they are dead; obviously I am ahead of the curve.</p>

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No, I have not. I just have a tendency to ignore dumb people--and envious people.

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<p>Wildflower, I am pretty sure that I am not dumb, and trust me, I have no reason to be envious of you. So why do you ignore me and my questions?</p>

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Wildflower, you still haven't explained why the timelines indicated by your old posts (those cited by Keefer) do not tally with the fact that you have already graduated from HBS.

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Quite simply, she can't. She's playing up the this-is-the-internet-so-I-don't-have-to-prove-myself-to-anyone game (despite previous posts that totally contradict who she claims to be and what she's done). She's been outed as a poser and is doing the rational thing -- ignoring it and hoping it'll go away.</p>

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So why do you ignore me and my questions?

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I think the answer is quite obvious, don't you think?</p>

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<p>^ bingo!!!!</p>

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<p>"Wildflower, I am pretty sure that I am not dumb, and trust me, I have no reason to be envious of you. So why do you ignore me and my questions?"</p>

<p>I agree with your first premise; but considering that you don't know me, I'll take the second as simply speculative. :) But...</p>

<p>I don't ignore you, Sakky. I did, however, ignore your authoritative requests/commands after you failed to realize (or seemed to fail to grasp, or perhaps just ignored) what I was trying to tell you. Perhaps it was just some confusion on your end. It happens to the best of us. I don't play silly pressure games. A nicer tone might have gotten you an answer.</p>

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<p>wildflower, as I have said in the other thread, you are truly the epitome of a psuedo-intellectual and pretentious loser.</p>

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I agree with your first premise; but considering that you don't know me, I'll take the second as simply speculative. But..

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<p>Trust me, even if you are everything you say you are, I still have absolutely no reason to be envious of you. </p>

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I don't ignore you, Sakky. I did, however, ignore your authoritative requests/commands after you failed to realize (or seemed to fail to grasp, or perhaps just ignored) what I was trying to tell you. Perhaps it was just some confusion on your end. It happens to the best of us. I don't play silly pressure games. A nicer tone might have gotten you an answer.

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<p>Uh, the only "failure" on my part is that I didn't clear my PM box when you tried to contact me, although I find it odd that you didn't simply choose to contact me by email (which I prefer). But then when I did clear my box, you did nothing. So why don't you give me the same PM that you apparently were trying to give before? If you were willing to PM me before, why not now?</p>

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<p>"I think the answer is quite obvious, don't you think?"</p>

<p>Everything is obvious to everyone all the time always; that's why people come to an online forum seeking obvious advice, asking for obvious answers to obvious questions.</p>

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<p>Sakky, I CANNOT believe you're dignifying this girl with a response.</p>

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<p>girl/boy/man/women/engineer/LAC student/harvard student/ whatever the hell IT is</p>

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Everything is obvious to everyone all the time always; that's why people come to an online forum seeking obvious advice, asking for obvious answers to obvious questions.

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<p>I indeed think the answers are quite obvious regarding your background. </p>

<p>But, hey, I'll let the readers judge for themselves. I've given you several softball questions that anybody with even limited knowledge of HBS would be able to hit out of the park. {I mean, come on, the basic steps to get into the HBS library stacks? That's a gimme.} You won't answer them. People are free to draw their own conclusions.</p>

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<p>"Trust me, even if you are everything you say you are, I still have absolutely no reason to be envious of you." </p>

<p>I rarely trust strangers, Sakky. Not even if they have over 10,000 posts.</p>

<p>"Uh, the only "failure" on my part is that I didn't clear my PM box when you tried to contact me, although I find it odd that you didn't simply choose to contact me by email (which I prefer). But then when I did clear my box, you did nothing. So why don't you give me the same PM that you apparently were trying to give before? If you were willing to PM me before, why not now?"</p>

<p>No. Actually your failure was to presume that because I initially felt inclined, in good faith, to contact you, that I would feel the same after the <em>show</em> started. You see, and I am sure you'll understand this, I have neither an incentive nor the naive inclination to explain myself to a stranger, not even to you Sakky. </p>

<p>And much to my embarrassment, admittedly, I had no idea that PMs and email worked the same way on CC. Call me old school, or ignorant. </p>

<p>I hope this leaves things clear.</p>

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<p>You are sort of getting it now.</p>

<p>"I indeed think the answers are quite obvious regarding your background."</p>

<p>People can assume whatever they want. If that satisfies your reasoning (i.e. ignorant people making ignorant claims with lack of data), then more power to you.</p>

<p>"But, hey, I'll let the readers judge for themselves."</p>

<p>As you should. </p>

<p>"I've given you several softball questions that anybody with even limited knowledge of HBS would be able to hit out of the park."</p>

<p>Would it surprise you to know that I didn't frequent the library much?</p>

<p>"I mean, come on, the basic steps to get into the HBS library stacks? That's a gimme."</p>

<p>The funny thing is that even a nerdy PhD applicant might know the answer to this after visiting. So why you are asking me for an answer that does not prove anything? Isn't that just silly? MIT is close enough to visit anytime, so any MIT student would easily find the answer. </p>

<p>Now the really funny thing is that, as of now, despite your silly and incessant questioning, you have never explained your own connection to HBS. Did you cross-enrolled for a class while at MIT? Attended the extension school? Visited friends over at HBS? Come, Sakky, it's not fun to play a one-way game. Tell us. </p>

<p>"You won't answer them. People are free to draw their own conclusions."</p>

<p>Bingo, Sakky! In case you did not notice, I already said I am fine with that. Yet you continued, apparently not getting it, positing silly comments such as: "why would you want that for yourself?" And, well, while I appreciate your maternal instinct for online strangers, that's my business, Sakky.</p>