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I attended Stanford business school on scholarship. I was brought up in a middle class household, not poor. I couldn't fit in with the rich kids, many of whom w
by newpattern 11y ago
I attended Stanford business school on scholarship. I was brought up in a middle class household, not poor. I couldn't fit in with the rich kids, many of whom were sons/daughters of millionaire/billionaires, the bankers and the consultants. All the students were obsessed with networking and as a "lowly" engineer pursuing an MBA, my classmates never considered me worth getting to know. I tried but couldn't really forge any meaningful friendships.I felt like an outsider all the time. This was in sharp contrast to my experience in engineering school in India, where the only thing that mattered was how smart you are, irrespective of who your parents are.
- kelukelugames 11y agoWant to hob nob with GSB students? Should have gone to Stanfurd for engineering. "Hey you are a programmer? Want to make an app for me?"
- newpattern 11y agoHaha, yes. Met a lot of those."I can't code but I have lots of ideas."
- hkmurakami 11y agoBusiness school is another beast entirely, in my experience. I studied engineering at an Ivy League school and sure I didn't fit in with the main finance/consulting/billionaire's child crowd, but there was a sizeable minority of peers pursuing careers in academia, medicine, etc. that I bonded with. In business school, the ratio of mainstream to sidestream was skewed so badly towards the mainstream that it was difficult to even keep my head above water amidst the torrent of "networkers" like you said.