Samia and the City

Most of Baji's favorite movies of all time

Playboy.com has published its list of the 10 Worst Chick Flicks of All Time.

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I found my facebook password

Finally. So you guys can like poke me and stuff now. Baji are you happy?

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Birthday Wish List

I don't want anything else. This is it.

Meow-Billie

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First Year Prom

We had our Semi-Formal this past weekend at the Children's Museum on Navy Pier. Here is a picture of me and only other Paki girl at the GSB, Seema. Seema was on my Random Walk Turkey trip too!

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AXP Networking

Tonight I went to an AXP Women's Networking Event at the Gleacher Center Midway Club (a ritzy members club at our downtown GSB location). I met current Executive MBA women who are here from our Singapore and London campuses for their executive elective classes. Then during dinner I sat next to the Associate Dean of Students, Ann Harvilla, and talked to her about the transitional period I'm in. I told her how I sometimes feel lost, and quite underprepared, while trying to find this new career that I'm supposed to be really excited about. She told me something really interesting. When she interviewed at the GSB for her position (in which she is highly regarded), the faculty were doubtful of her ability to get the job done, since she did not have an education in business. She said that she just pushed what she did know: how to connect students with what they needed to succeed. In the end, she really just needed to know people, not derivatives math. Jack Welch once said something very similar to Dean Snyder during an interview. Dean Snyder had asked JW what he thought business schools needed to be teaching. JW said that students should be learning about hiring, firing, and motivating; these skills are just as important as the analytical fundamentals. MBAs are important because they give you a notch on your belt. As you see how you fit in with your peers, you gain confidence. And leadership is all about confidence. In the end, it boiled down to knowing people, and knowing yourself. I can do that.

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Organic paths to success

There are many paths to success. And from each you can drink.

Today in class we talked about the plurality of the concept of right, and how it's okay to not know what that is. B-school feels a little like talking to a shrink at times. So is it weird that I like it so much?

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Something interesting I learned at school today ...

Mark Albion, author, educator, and consultant, discussed a study on passion and work. The study was from 1960 – 1980 and the participants were 1500 business school graduates who fell in 2 distinct groups. “Group A contained the individuals who selected their first job on the basis of money, believing that they would get to their passions later in their career. 83% or 1245 of the people studied fell into group A. The remaining 17%, or 255 subjects, elected to find work that they were passionate about regardless of money. At the conclusion of this 20-year study, 101 of the subjects were multi-millionaires. Group A produced one of the 101. The other 100 came from the group of individuals who chose to follow their passion.” (Albion 2000)

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Color Copies are hoTTTT: Today's GSB Speaker

USA Today and Chicago GSB present a talk with Ann Mulcahy, CEO and Chairman of the Xerox Corporation.

Ann Mulcahy was ranked No. 5 on Forbes 2006 list of the world's most powerful women. She is one of the few women to run a top publicly traded company. She joined Xerox in 1976, holding positions in sales, human resource, customer operations, and market operations as she worked her way up to CEO in 2001 and chairman in 2002. She is reviving the company's competitive edge by adding consulting services to Xerox's offerings and introducing innovations in commercial color printing.

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Registering for classes is a bitch

Today I tried picking what I'm going to take for Fall. The great thing about the GSB is that you have 100% academic freedom to do what you want. You often hear that the Nobel Laureates on our campus changed their fields with ideas that were born by burning new mental paths, not traveling beaten ones. However, the awful thing about the GSB is that sometimes you're just not good at this, all the freakin' time. I don't know what to pick, I don't understand the convoluted class bidding system that is the ugly spawn of the GSB's love of free markets, and I just want it to be Wednesday already (when bidding ends and I can stop bitching). I wish I had bought more stuff on eBay.

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Asma and Fizaa

The girls' trip out to Chicago was a blast. We ate lots of produce, made fun of AsmO, hung out with Sue, and had LOTS of fun on MANDATORY fun day. Asma and Fizaa said I couldn't put up pictures of them, so here are some representative pictures instead.

AsmO!

Me! That's Sue's butt.

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