{"id":1685,"date":"2016-09-23T21:30:40","date_gmt":"2016-09-23T20:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/mba\/?p=1685"},"modified":"2016-09-23T21:30:40","modified_gmt":"2016-09-23T20:30:40","slug":"iese-first-year-students-kick-off-their-mba-journey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/mba\/iese-first-year-students-kick-off-their-mba-journey\/","title":{"rendered":"IESE FIRST YEAR STUDENTS KICK OFF THEIR MBA JOURNEY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On September 5th, the MBA Office welcomed 356 first year students from 64 countries to the IESE South Campus for orientation week. They were very excited to finally begin their MBA journey that for many started two years ago when they first started researching schools.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/mba\/files\/2016\/09\/Prithi.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1686 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/mba\/files\/2016\/09\/Prithi-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Prithi\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/mba\/files\/2016\/09\/Prithi-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/mba\/files\/2016\/09\/Prithi-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/mba\/files\/2016\/09\/Prithi.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0&#8221; It has suddenly hit me that I\u2019m back at school. This entire week has been a whirlwind of new faces, new buildings, fresh new rooms (hello Section E!) and of course\u2026 new cases. While the information exchange has been overwhelming, it\u2019s comforting to know that I\u2019m traipsing along this adventure together with the rest of the first-years. &#8221; says Prithi Balaji.<\/p>\n<p>As part of orientation week, the consulting club also had their kick off meeting, where they educated interested students about the consulting industry and the recruitment process for internships and full time roles. The Consulting Club Presidents,\u00a0Enrique Gonz\u00e1lez Due\u00f1as (MBA 2017) \u00a0and\u00a0Pau Puigpelat (MBA 2017) also shared their experiences in their internship in the Boston Consulting Group and working full<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/mba\/files\/2016\/09\/IMG_4457.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1689 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/mba\/files\/2016\/09\/IMG_4457-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_4457\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/mba\/files\/2016\/09\/IMG_4457-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/mba\/files\/2016\/09\/IMG_4457-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/mba\/files\/2016\/09\/IMG_4457-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> time for McKinsey&amp;Company, respectively. Patrick Wallen, Associate Director of Career Services and Head of Consulting Recruitment in IESE, gave valuable advice to students regarding the importantance of preparing early for the interview and the networking events surrounding the upcoming October career forum.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If you would like to see other first impressions directly from the class of 2018 during their first week of class, visit our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/iesemba\/posts\/10154605433001789\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>FACEBOOK PAGE<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Until next time&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Jess<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On September 5th, the MBA Office welcomed 356 first year students from 64 countries to the IESE South Campus for orientation week. They were very excited to finally begin their MBA journey that for many started two years ago when they first started researching schools. \u00a0&#8221; It has suddenly hit me that I\u2019m back at&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-container\"><a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/mba\/iese-first-year-students-kick-off-their-mba-journey\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1240,"featured_media":1687,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85920],"tags":[93342,93341,86304],"class_list":["post-1685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-students-corner","tag-first-week-of-class","tag-orientation-week","tag-student-life"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1240"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1685"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1693,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1685\/revisions\/1693"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}