Posted by: Kaitlin Thompson on March 20, 2019
As I prepared to move to the UK for the MBA, many remarked “it won’t be that different” and “they speak English too”. I too understated the adjustment and culture shock I would experience, probably because I worked in Spain for two months after my first year of university and studied in Chile for a […]
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Posted by: Eileen Chen on March 12, 2019
Eileen Chen is a 2018-19 MBA student at Oxford’s Saïd Business School and a Canadian marketer with four years of experience in the consumer packaged goods industry. Her marketing experience included managing an e-commerce website and developing data-driven recommendations through consumer insights for Keurig Canada. Her current career aspirations are to use marketing’s power to […]
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Posted by: Oxford Seed Fund on March 1, 2019
The Cambrian explosion was an event that occurred approximately 541 million years ago and resulted in the divergence of most modern metazoan phyla – basically caused the separation for species that led to modern day humans. Before the Cambrian explosion, most organisms were simple, composed of individual cells occasionally organized into colonies. Over the following […]
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Posted by: Grace Stephens on February 12, 2019
As I think back on this time of year, I remember that last year I was gearing up to head to Oxford for my admissions interview after having received the invitation at the end of January. It was an exciting time, but also a bit nerve-racking. I was thinking through my application for potential questions […]
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Posted by: Alma C. Gutierrez Toledano on February 11, 2019
Sometimes people choose their life path, but sometimes they are living the lives in which they were chosen to be. It makes sense, we are only 18 years old when we are supposed to take one of the most important decisions of our lives: “What to study? Which college to go to? What do we […]
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Posted by: Vaughan Bagley on February 7, 2019
As someone who went to an all-girls high school, comes from a female-dominated industry (non-profits), and whose family is overrun by strong-minded, independent women, the MBA was my first real foray into a male-dominated world. For this and a number of other reasons, I was a bit nervous arriving at Saïd in September – knowing […]
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Posted by: Ollie Ormiston on February 5, 2019
Ideas trend; currently I am reading a lot about the need for sleep. My interest has been partly piqued by Oxford’s schedule; the relentless pace of the MBA is made harder by the whirlwind of activity that is happening every night around Oxford. As I write this I have gone from an event at the […]
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Posted by: Eileen Chen on January 15, 2019
I sat doe-eyed in the Nelson Mandela Theatre during our first week with 315 new best friends, all eager and excited for the year of adventure to come. I did not expect to hear a 4-word quote that would change my career perspective forever. In the middle of the week, 2016 alum Gillian Benjamin used […]
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Posted by: HKN Padiachy on January 14, 2019
As Michaelmas term comes to an end, time to go through what was indeed an adjustment chapter, the more considering Oxford’s intricate web of customs and traditions. Some of this term’s (unusual) experiences would have been: 1. Wearing a bow tie for the first time after having been through several Youtube tutorials on how to […]
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Posted by: Diana Kolar on December 20, 2018
What a whirlwind Michaelmas has been – I am grateful to use this post to take a step back and reflect on all of the incredible moments/people/places/experiences of this term. Besides getting to know my diverse and impressive classmates and taking unbelievable bonding trips to London, Berlin and Helsinki – the defining activity of this […]
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