Wise Words from Zicklin MBA Students

We asked second-year students in the Zicklin School’s Full-Time MBA program, “What is one thing you learned from your MBA experience?” Here’s what they told us.  

“How to network effectively. It’s not about figuring out how other people can help you get a job; it’s about learning to be curious about the people around you. And at the Zicklin School, which attracts such interesting students of all backgrounds, it’s easy to do that.”

-Laura Rangel (MBA, ’25) 

“How much you can learn working for a small business. This past summer, I had the opportunity to run a small restaurant instead of doing a standard summer internship. I was surprised that in a small business I had the opportunity to apply all the accounting, marketing, operations, management, and sales skills that I learned in class.”
-Fan Yang (MBA, ’25)  

“That grades aren’t everything. My first semester, I was so worried about not having a business background that I spent all my time studying. As a result, I had a 4.0 GPA, but I didn’t have a summer internship. I did eventually land a great summer opportunity, but it required a lot of last-minute scrambling and anxiety I could have avoided if I had more evenly divided my efforts between studying and looking for an internship.”  
-Elena Barilla (MBA, ’25) 

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