<p>[Ain’t</a> No Party Like an HBS Party - Boston Magazine](<a href=“http://www.bostonmagazine.com/articles/aint_no_party_like_an_hbs_party/]Ain’t”>http://www.bostonmagazine.com/articles/aint_no_party_like_an_hbs_party/)</p>
<p>I heard it was a party school but this article blew my mind…do you other business school students find similar trends are your schools?</p>
<p>In fairness to HBS, consider what happens at other B-schools:</p>
<p>[Wharton 2nd year MBA ] B-school life consists of doing some quality work and endless partying. No more worrying about the next job interview, and no more stressing out over the next case due for finance class. This is the life that an MBA student should live for. Whenever you walk into the Wharton MBA pub, there are numerous friends waiting to tell you how much they are trying to do the minimum possible and how much more sleep they are getting."</p>
<p>[BW</a> Online | April 19, 2001 | Yi Lu: Second Year Winds Down](<a href=“Businessweek - Bloomberg”>Businessweek - Bloomberg)</p>
<p>*"Crainer and Dearlove (1999), in their critical overview of business education, described the “Wharton Walk”–a drinking ritual in which the students at the University of Pennsylvania business school visit 10 bars in one night. They concluded, “This is what happens in business schools. Most students simply get drunk. MBA students bond and network” *</p>
<p>[AMLE</a> - The End of Business Schools? Less Success Than Meets the Eye - Vol. 1, No. 1, Sept. 2002](<a href=“http://www.aomonline.org/Publications/Articles/BSchools.asp]AMLE”>http://www.aomonline.org/Publications/Articles/BSchools.asp)</p>
<p>*Monday, wash day; Tuesday, ironing day; Wednesday, Golf Day? </p>
<p>For perhaps as long as 40 years, Wednesdays have been informally termed “Golf Day” by members of the Graduate School of Business. Unlike most business schools, Stanford’s GSB has no classes on Wednesdays. Many students use this mid-week break to get over to the Stanford Golf Course and practice their swing.</p>
<p>“There are certainly more Business School students on Wednesdays,” affirmed assistant pro Ed Bernhart. “There’s absolutely no doubt about it.”*</p>
<p>[The</a> Stanford Daily Online](<a href=“http://www.stanforddaily.com/article/2002/11/18/onWednesdaysWhileMostGsbStudent****TheBooksOthersAre]The”>http://www.stanforddaily.com/article/2002/11/18/onWednesdaysWhileMostGsbStudent****TheBooksOthersAre)</p>
<p>So 2nd-year MBAs party a lot?</p>
<p>Cool.</p>
<p>It ain’t just 2-year MBA’s. </p>
<p>Basically, the deal is that a lot of MBA students just came from grinding jobs in banking or consulting in which they worked ridiculous numbers of hours a week, and they’re going to return to banking or consulting when they graduate. Hence, B-school becomes basically a 2-year vacation for them. Not only are they tired from their former jobs, but they also know that they will probably never have a schedule that is as flexible and forgiving as a B-school provides until the day they retire.</p>
<p>no i know that.</p>
<p>the OP seemed to be looking down his nose at those self-styled lords of the realm, who know nothing of real work and party all day. Surely nobody who throws or attends a kegger can possibly be a serious businessman.</p>
<p>Since I don’t share his outrage, and assume most here would not, I kind of mocked the spirit in which his post was intended. Frankly, if they get to party all year long and still get the best jobs, they clearly know something we don’t :)</p>
<p>Damn, sounds like a fun place. I wanna go there now. :)</p>