AMBAs Looking to Change Their Title
By Katy Moyer, AMBA JGSM '10
Issue date: 9/9/09 Section: Features
The AMBA '10 class is full of surprises. For example, despite bonding over a summer of Core boot camp and AMBA outings, we no longer wish to call ourselves AMBAs. The class is looking to align with the second-year students to battle the yet-to-recover economy so we can all raise a glass in May 2010 with degree and signing bonus in hand.
The AMBA '10 class is a feisty group of forty-one comprised of engineers, financiers, professors, consultants, and one charismatic Chilean wine seller. There are people who have worked with everything from the bubonic plague to computer chips, renewable energy to robots, missiles to mushrooms. We play cricket, drink whisky, and like kayaking-with or without knowing how to swim. Some people have worked in industry for one year, while others have worked for closer to fifteen (which I have to admit intimidated me when I first came to JSGM). I expected cold hard mathematicians (we have a math PhD from the Max Planck Institute), calculating accountants (we have a CPA and a Chartered Accountant), and disillusioned bankers fresh from the fight on Wall Street. I expected class debates to be testosterone charged fights to the death-images of King Leonidas of Sparta yelling about dining in hell filled my dreams.
So you can imagine my surprise when instead of pompous know-it-alls, my AMBA classmates turned out to be some of the most understated people on the face of the planet. This group has a much higher propensity to ask questions than to answer them. We prefer to help our classmates rather than competitively cutting each other down in bloodlust. For instance, during a mock interview session, Raj Rajagopal came up to me and said, "Katy, I know exactly where you're coming from. I've been trying to sell my engineering degree to business people for most of my life. I think I can help you with your pitch if you'd like to hear it."
Through just such experiences, the AMBAs have bonded over the summer. We are proud of finishing the AMBA summer core together, but we are no longer willing to call ourselves AMBAs. Just as we checked whatever ego we might have had at the door before entering the AMBA program, we also want to check our AMBA status as well to become part of the one-and-only class of 2010.
The AMBA '10 class is a feisty group of forty-one comprised of engineers, financiers, professors, consultants, and one charismatic Chilean wine seller. There are people who have worked with everything from the bubonic plague to computer chips, renewable energy to robots, missiles to mushrooms. We play cricket, drink whisky, and like kayaking-with or without knowing how to swim. Some people have worked in industry for one year, while others have worked for closer to fifteen (which I have to admit intimidated me when I first came to JSGM). I expected cold hard mathematicians (we have a math PhD from the Max Planck Institute), calculating accountants (we have a CPA and a Chartered Accountant), and disillusioned bankers fresh from the fight on Wall Street. I expected class debates to be testosterone charged fights to the death-images of King Leonidas of Sparta yelling about dining in hell filled my dreams.
So you can imagine my surprise when instead of pompous know-it-alls, my AMBA classmates turned out to be some of the most understated people on the face of the planet. This group has a much higher propensity to ask questions than to answer them. We prefer to help our classmates rather than competitively cutting each other down in bloodlust. For instance, during a mock interview session, Raj Rajagopal came up to me and said, "Katy, I know exactly where you're coming from. I've been trying to sell my engineering degree to business people for most of my life. I think I can help you with your pitch if you'd like to hear it."
Through just such experiences, the AMBAs have bonded over the summer. We are proud of finishing the AMBA summer core together, but we are no longer willing to call ourselves AMBAs. Just as we checked whatever ego we might have had at the door before entering the AMBA program, we also want to check our AMBA status as well to become part of the one-and-only class of 2010.
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