Penn, Wharton, & their AMAZING Resources

Alright, so I complain about Wharton sometimes. I still think it's incredible that the majority of the world's most talented undergraduate business students want to pursue a number-crunching career on Wall Street when there's a world of myriad alternative opportunities out there waiting for them to seize. As globalization carries on at an ever-increasing pace, sustainable development has become THE central theme of our generation. So, why are so many people still adamantly building up their resumes to impress the recruiter of some name-brand investment, bank?

Anyway, as much as this fact annoys me, my experience here at Wharton has been phenomenal so far. The resources here are just incredible: CEOs come here for speeches and network with students on a daily basis, while a couple of Heads-of-States of frequented our campus this year as well. Secretary-General of the freakin' United Nations is about to come here as well. There are just so many awesome speakers and so many awesome campus clubs with their awesome everday events out there! You learn so much outside of class that it's easy to get distracted from your actual schoolwork.

Speaking of classes, the faculty resources here are just amazing. Take two of my TAs this semester, for example:

• David Muir of my BPUB250 class (Managerial Economics) is currently heading a menu pricing project for McDonalds. Yes, McDonalds. 
• Adam Saunders of my OPIM101 class (Operations and Information Management) worked at the President's Council of Economic Advisers in Washington, D.C before pursuing his PH.D at MIT. 

These are my TA's; I won't even start to talk about my professors. I'd continue blogging, but I'm gna head for dinner right now. After dinner, I'll be attending a consulting workshop led by professionals from McKinsey and Oliver Wyman. How does a freshman like me have access to such amazing resources? It's cuz amazing campus groups like Social Impact Consulting put together these awesome events.

Compare this to the Bolivian schoolkids who had to commute up to 4 hours by foot on a daily basis just to show up at English classes taught by professors who didn't know English at all.. I am truly fortunate to be at a place like this. So let's work a little harder and stop slacking off so much--let's not sleep for 10 hours like I did last night, when I've been consistently getting 8 hours of sleep :)