Remembering why we want to live an MBA

Where do you see yourself in 5 to 10 years? Directing a large group of people? Battling a do or die negotiation? Flying across the world to close a multimillion deal? Or deciding on a key element on a project that will affect thousands of people? I don’t want to forget why I started my MBA or where I wanted to see myself in that time frame. Even if some days it feels like your weeks crash together, your nights are inexistent and that your friends and family have disappeared. It is now when the International MBA at La Salle hits us hard. Exams and projects, day to day life, balancing it all is not easy. When I didn’t work, it wasn’t easy, and now that I’m at full time job I can say it’s a bit harder and I find myself gasping for air a bit more often. But this is yet another test we have been thrown into. This level of stress and workload is minimal compared to what we will be facing in the future. It is good to test your limits, to see how you react. Yet, we are not alone, as Silvia pointed out in an earlier post, we have excellent professors guiding us through. As you feel you have given it your all, something magical happens. For example, you catch a glance of a classmate you haven’t related much to yet and you connect, because you are both feeling the same way, and no words are necessary. Or you have brief chat with a professor and they tell you stories of when they were studying their MBA and offers you amazing advice... And as you go home, you remember to not get discourage, that an MBA is really like a marathon, at mile 10 you have to recall what brought you there and where you want to be at the end.