A Sprint Through The Finish Line
Before business school, every alum I talked to said the same thing: Make sure you have a plan when you get to school because it’s going to go quickly and there will be many opportunities that you’ll need to prioritize. I would like to add one caveat to this phrase…plans change. Mine certainly did. I’m […]
The Value of Running My Own Race
Back in undergrad, I was the Head Strategist of the University of Michigan Solar Car Team (hang in there with me, I promise it’ll make sense in a bit). In short, my job was to tell the driver to drive as fast as (safely) possible during the 3.5 day, 1,800 mile race across the Australian […]
Booth’s Healthcare Initiative
When I applied to school, I had many goals that I wanted to accomplish with my MBA; I wanted to build upon my leadership skills, my business acumen and, I suppose, learn how to tighten up my writing skills through these blog articles! Above all, I planned to use my MBA as a way to […]
How I’ve Used Booth’s Flexible Curriculum to Make a Career Pivot
One of the first differentiators I learned about Booth when I started researching business schools was that Booth was well known for it’s flexible curriculum. Therefore, it’s not very surprising that one of the most frequent questions prospective students ask me is: “How do you take advantage of Booth’s flexible curriculum?” I generally answer the […]
The Booth (Partner’s) Experience
For those of us that come to business school with partners, it’s important that we find a school that works not only for us, but for our partners as well. Booth’s curriculum is all about flexibility and that extends to our partners’ experiences. To give you a better idea of the wide variety of experiences […]
Adjusting from Work to Student Life
Like many others, I spent a lot of time while applying to business schools talking to current MBA students and alumni. I talked to them about all sorts of different topics and got many differing opinions throughout my conversations. That said, there was one thing that literally every one of them told me at some […]
Spending Time as a Tourist in My Own City (…During a Pandemic)
Usually, early September is a busy time for any Boothie. During a non-COVID-19 year, the first year students are all over the world meeting classmates during their Random Walk trips and second year students are either leading those trips (my partner and I were supposed to lead the Portugal Couples trip, RIP) or traveling with […]
I Used My MBA (and Summer Internship) to Change Careers
I came to Booth with a strong personal mission to improve the healthcare industry through technology innovation (if you’re wondering why, check out my intro post). The only problem? I didn’t have any healthcare experience in my background. I knew that meant I needed to use my time at Booth to gain as much experience […]
Get to know Matt Goldstein
If you asked my friends, they would all call me a big “tech nerd.” From the time I was a little kid, I would take computers apart (much to the displeasure of my parents as I rarely put them back together). This passion, however, eventually led me to the University of Michigan in pursuit of […]