VIDEO: A Day in the Life of a Booth Student
What’s it like to be a student at Booth? Take a look at a day of waking up in MPP, taking the 7:48AM Metra to Hyde Park with all your friends, class, group meetings, coffee and cookies with Dean Kole, attending Booth Stories, a little afternoon fro-yo from Kovler, studying in the “Harry Potter” library […]
A Reflection on the SXSW MBA Pitch Competition
The energy from my team is exultant. They’ve just announced the winners for the 3rd Annual MBA Pitch Competition at SXSW Interactive – and we, Riviter, took first place! One of the judges, an Entrepreneur in Residence at the University of Texas, approaches and asks which business school we’re from. “Chicago Booth,” one of us […]
The limitations of K-means: Why You Can’t Cluster Booth Students
Pardon the stats pun, I just submitted my Big Data midterm, and I’m pretty obsessed with the class. As a little background, K-means is a way to group people, things, etc. into “clusters” by finding the attributes they share with other members of the sample. Personally, I don’t think even Professor Taddy could build a […]
Cohorts Compete for the Cohort Cup!
As you probably know, each class at Booth is divided into 10 cohorts. We spend the first month of school our first year with our cohorts in Orientation+ (of which LEAD is a big component). Then throughout the year, we have events and competitions organized by cohorts: The Golden Gargoyles Film Competition and Awards Night, a […]
Fall Fun in Chicago
Fall can feel like a whirlwind at Booth. First year, I spent my fall obsessively “coffee-chatting”, “crop-circling”, and “corporate-conversationing” — a strange lexicon of made-up verbs familiar to the 250 or so of us who put ourselves through the process of recruiting for management consulting internships each year. However, fall also brings a host of […]
An Intro to My Booth Experience (so far)
One of the great things about Booth is the flexibility. That comes in many forms. You’ve probably heard about the flexible curriculum, the “no required classes”, etc. Another great piece of Booth flexibility is Booth’s joint degree program, something that really drew me to Booth. For more about Booth’s joint degree programs, visit the program’s […]