Bound For Wharton & An MBA Degree

Painting the Town Blue and Red

The pre-Wharton partying has already began in Philly. Many of my classmates have been settled for a month or more, and as the larger mass of us begin to descend on Center City over the next week or so, I expect the festivities to hit fever pitch, climaxing in a back to school bash (I wished it had been named something else; that name makes me feel kinda like this is high school :/ ) a day or two before the start of pre-term. We plan to ransack some unsuspecting club, drink them dry and then disappear into the city. I’m armed with milk thistle to preemptively eliminate hangovers.

Finally, what I’ve spent the past almost 17 months working toward is upon me. After I land Tuesday afternoon, I’ll meet my landlord at my new place, sign up for a gym membership, then grab a zip car and hit Target to get some essentials to get me through my first night in the new place. The utilities are already on but I’ll end up waiting a few days before I have cable an internet. I’ve already mapped out a couple Starbucks that I can bum Wi-fi from on my personalized Google Map of Center City.

This time tomorrow, I will officially be a resident of Philadelphia. Let’s see how this goes.

MBAOver30 offers the perspective of a 30-something MBA applicant who was offered admissions to Wharton, Booth and MIT Sloan with fellowships to each. He is a member of the Wharton MBA Class of 2015 and majors in Entrepreneurial Management and Marketing with an emphasis in Customer Data & Analytics. He blogs at MBAOver30.com. Previous posts on Poets&Quants:

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