Looking forward in 2010
Two weeks ago I attended the MIT Sloan Fellows, Class of 2011 orientation. Thats right - I made my decision and it is to go back to school. It was very difficult to walk away from an awesome job. But the idea of being back in school with about a hundred other very smart professionals, some at the top of their institutions and from varied backgrounds, in an intense one-year course on leadership and thinking in business and graduating with a degree from MIT was notionally too good to pass up. What I do know is that after drinking from the MIT SF fire-hose, I shall exit with a brand new set of relationships, an excellent network of alumni from a program that is rapidly gaining prominence in business.
Orientation was a lot of fun for some simple reasons: I met many interesting people who think big and deep, wrestle with difficult choices similar to mine and seem to know how to enjoy life also. I cant wait to to work and play hard with this community and relish a once-in-a-lifetime transformational experience.
We are already coming together in as many ways as possible - meeting up outside school, joining LinkedIn and Facebook groups and sharing whatever possible to ameliorate our experience together. We have heard that the program becomes what you make of it. From that perspective, I am looking forward to this experiential microcosm of life.
On the left is Francisco (Cisco) Gonzales, a Deputy Judge Advocate with the United States Air Force
