Sunday, November 14, 2010

Seriously

I had a chat with a fellow Sternie before my morning class yesterday. One of the things we touched on was the non-Sternies out class.

It's a small class, fewer than a dozen people. I call it the Breakfast Club because we meet Saturday mornings. What's different about it is that a fair proportion are from other schools within NYU. There is representation from the Law school, Wagoner (public policy) and Steinhardt (social work, I think).

What is so funny is that they are all so serious. I don't mean to say Sternies aren't serious - we are all very competitive MBA students, after all - but these guys sound like they're auditioning for Meet the Press. The way they phrase their questions, it's like they want to show off their own knowledge. They ask about issues that are far out of scope for the class. Example: it's an econ class, and the lawyer quotes chapter and section from antitrust law. He's my partner on our class project.

Funny, he and I had a conversation. He realized that unlike his law papers, this one was not going to be 50% footnotes.

Funny for me, since my original ambition was law school. Funny for him because now he can concentrate his analytical eye on his LLM classwork.