Your personal statement for business school is one of the most important components of your application portfolio. The essay is kind of like a presidential candidate’s speech at a convention; the audience may have learned a lot about you from second-hand sources, but this is the only shot to sell yourself in your own words. Accordingly, you should bring your A-game.

The most essential aspect of a strong essay is a compelling narrative. Tell your story and give it an ambitious ending. Place yourself within a chronology, and explain why it’s now time to get an MBA. You may have been a Philosophy major who entered the workforce as an Editor but ended up really interested in Marketing and Business Development. Or you may be looking to switch your focus from selling grain in Nebraska to nanotechnology in The Netherlands. Everyone has a story; tell yours.
It’s also super important to show a track record of success. B-school admissions counselors want to fill their spots with students who will go on to be successful (and, cynics may say, give money back to the institution). Regardless, don’t highlights missteps or regrets – keep the piece almost 100% positive and optimistic, without sounding cocky or self-entitled.

Hopefuls often neglect to properly edit their personal statements for business school. While you’re certainly not applying for a PhD in English, you are expected to submit a polished product – and a polished product means no typos and solid grammar. Show a friend who reads a lot, show a significant other, take a few days, look at it one more time, and then send it off.

The B-school personal statement is not the single most important part of your application. Your work history and GMAT score are certainly more weighty in the decision-making process. Nevertheless, there is more volatility in the person statement, more room for candidates to make – or break – their applications. So take your time, tell your story, bounce it off a friend, and then move upward and onward…

‘Augmented reality’ has become a hot term in new media since the MIT Media Lab unveiled SixthSense, an interactive data projection device, at the 2009 TED conference. The projection of virtual information onto the physical environment is already revolutionizing video games and mobile phone apps. Next up: healthcare, military training, and product marketing innovations. To take part in the new and improved digital future, train for careers in augmented reality.
What is Augmented Reality?
Augmented reality leverages existing technologies to create a single, powerful innovation: a digital overlay for the real world. As Greg Davis, manager of AR software company Total Immersion, explains it, “Augmented reality is a composite experience — a video stream merged with a synthetic component and manipulated in real time. We are taking … | Read the rest of this entry »

Data currently informs so much of what we do. Amazon.com tells us what books we’ll enjoy based on what we purchased in the past. Netflix does very much the same thing with movies. Facebook suggests friends algorithmically and now, as of last week, Twitter does too.
The process of formally educating one’s self and/or one’s children has been slow to adjust to the internet. The reasons are understandable: The acquisition of knowledge is one of the single most important things we do during our lifetimes, a responsibility we do not want to delegate to a passing fad. Additionally, many believe there is something Romantic about education; it is a remnant of the French Revolution that must be done in person with a gentle, supportive hand … | Read the rest of this entry »

Enrollment spiked to 2.35M in ‘04, but critics argue in-person classes offer better experience.
Lois Romano / Washington Post
WASHINGTON — Angela Bostic will get her MBA in August from the University of Maryland University College, part of a dual master’s degree she is pursuing. She has never met a professor, has never sat in a classroom and has checked out the Adelphi campus only once, long after she had enrolled. In fact, until recently, the 28-year-old graduate student had been studying from Brussels.
Bostic is among a fast-growing number of students nationwide and worldwide who are turning to online degree programs to complete or advance their educations while they work, decisions that are driven by economics as well as by a society that is increasingly mobile.
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Internet educational opportunities have opened new doors for many officers
Posted: June 16th, 2006 01:38 AM PDT
Remember those matchbook covers that offered “draw-me” scholarship contests? The “winner” then got to pay for art lessons from a correspondence school.
Distance education has come a long way since then. In the last decade, it has become a rapidly expanding way for many people to earn legitimate college degrees.
Distance learning works especially well for law enforcement professionals, whose schedules can be unpredictable and involve unanticipated overtime.
Just as officers often sacrifice attending important family events because of their work schedules, many have been restricted in their ability to attend traditional college courses, especially if they work rotating shifts. Having to work just one emergency situation can sometimes wipe out a semester’s … | Read the rest of this entry »

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