With apologies to Coolio and L.V., Krystal Kovalick borrowed the backing track of Gangsta’s Paradise to riff on the MBA experience at INSEAD. A former Deloitte consultant in the firm’s Washington, D.C., offices, Kovalick is now studying for her MBA at INSEAD’s Singapore campus.
Her lyrics to Gangsta’s Paradise make for a fun parody of business school life and also capture the often stressed-full days of searching for that post-graduation job. As she writes it, “Interviews ain’t nothing but a heartbeat away. I’m gonna try for McKinsey, what can I say? I’m 29 now but will I have a job by 30. Yo the way things is going I don’t know.”
Yo, enjoy the video (especially the often awkward dancing) and the full lyrics (below):
As I walk through the hallway on the way to my class
I take a look at my life and realize it’s going fast
‘Cause I’ve been having a blast for so long that
Even my mama thinks I may never come home
But I ain’t met a student here that didn’t deserve it
Me be cheating on the GMAT, you know that’s unheard of
You better make sure you’re talking or Facebook stalking
Or you and your homies might get caught in a *SHH!*
I really hate to brag but I gotta gloat
As we grow I see us all on my private boat, fool
We’re the kind of class the 14Ds wanna be like
Using these day and night, making plans for a good time
Been spending most our lives living in a B-school paradise
Each week a different flight living in a B-school paradise
Shaker on Wednesday nights living in a B-school paradise
We hustle hard and all do fine living in a B-school paradise
Look at these simulations they got me facing
I could never be a chef, climbing mountains ain’t my thing
So I gotta be down with Consulting
Too much presentation watching got me chasing dreams
I’m an educated fool with money on my mind
Got my CV in my hand and a gleam in my eye
I’m a stressed out, anxious test-taking student
I got one in an hour so chilling wouldn’t be prudent, fool
Interviews ain’t nothing but a heartbeat away
I’m gonna try for McKinsey, what can I say?
I’m 29 now but will I have a job by 30
Yo the way things is going I don’t know
Tell me why are we so blind to see
That in under a year we’ll be graduating
Been spending most our lives living in a B-school paradise
Cubicles are hard to find living in a B-school paradise
National Weeks are tight living in a B-school paradise
Not many girls but tons of guys living in a B-school paradise
Someday we’ll have money and maybe we’ll have power
But for now we’re depleting our savings by the hour
Everybody’s bidding, but half of them don’t know
How many points they need for Singy, and if they’ll get to go
They say I gotta learn and professors here will teach me
But if I can’t understand them how can they reach me?
I guess TAs, they’re really smart, one’s kind of hot
That’s how I know I’m never gonna flunk, fool
Been spending most our lives living in a B-school paradise
Final exams turn out alright living in a B-school paradise
Club 16 is up all night living in a B-school paradise
INSEAD love for life living in a B-school paradise
Tell me why are we so blind to see
That in under a year we’ll be graduating
