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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.

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