BoothMarch 10, 20261 min read
Work-life balance at Booth: honest notes from the first two quarters
The advice people give about balance at a top MBA program is often optimistic to the point of uselessness. Here is what actually happened.
The advice people give about balance at a top MBA program is often optimistic to the point of uselessness. Here is what actually happened.
Before I enrolled at Chicago Booth, I had read everything I could find about surviving a top MBA program. The advice was consistent, confident, and almost entirely wrong about the thing that actually makes it hard.
This essay is being written as I live it. Check back soon.