[Jill] Busted

At research fest this year, I met a few of the incoming students.  I told one of these students how I'm an MBLOGGER and she was like, how come all of you stopped posting.  Busted!  Its been crazy busy the past few months and I apologize that none of us posted anything.  So, to make up for it, I will post a bunch now.

Since February, spring classes started and we all were working very hard on our theses.  Depending on your advisor, a first draft of the thesis is due in the beginning to middle of April.  So add that on to your spring classwork plus recruiting and you can see how the blogs fell of our radar!

There are some really great classes in the spring, and there is much more time to take electives compared with the fall.  I took Supply Chain Planning and Manufacturing System Design both of which were co-taught by Dr.'s Stephen Graves and David Simchi-Levi.  These classes really helped me see how to put my newly learned supply chain and logistics equations and math know-how into practice with examples from real cases.  I also took Strategies for Sustainable Business, also known as S-Lab.  This class was offered in the business school and co-taught by Dean Richard Locke, Sarah Slaughter and John Sterman.  If you have any interest in sustainability, TAKE THIS CLASS!!  The first half is lecture based, and the class discussions are really amazing, plus you get to take part in a simulation which was really fun.  The second half of the class is project based where you join a group and work with a company on an actual sustainability initiative.

Other students classes such as Finance, Financial Statements, Project Management, Game Theory, Branding, Procurement, as well as classes taught at Harvard University where we are allowed to register (one of the perks of being at MIT).

Even though the spring semester is BUSY BUSY BUSY, we still found time to venture out.  For instance, restaurant week in Boston is a 2-week event where really nice restaurants offer an affordable 3 course meal. 

This is a group of us having lunch at Bond.

This is a small group of us at L'Espalier, named the best restaurant in Boston -- and for good reason! The food, the service, the view... all wonderful.

Comments

[Jim]

Hi Jill, thanks for sharing. How does this year's job placement go esp for international students? And what kind of jobs that most students end up with?