MBA Quant Experience

Marquis writes  in his blog about the first-year workload:

I know I've said this before (and I probably sound like a broken record by now), but B-school is no joke. If any of you have heard that B-school is all about networking and hanging, then you heard wrong. The GSB is putting us on the grind this week with a ton and a half of work. In addition to our regular preparations for our core classes (reading and cases, espcially in our Strategy class), we've got a group paper due in Marketing and a problem set due in Operations on Thursday and a problem set due in Finance on Friday. Plus, I've got a paper due tomorrow in my Nonpofits Management class. To make matters even tougher, my first interview is on Jan 31, so I've got to find time to put some major work in preparing for the consulting case interviews or else your boy is going to be without a summer internship.

He offers  some perspective on the workload at the end of his first year:

Finally, I have been told that I shouldn't have talked so much about how hard the work was for most of the year, but I fell victim to a tendency to care too much about grades instead of focusing on learning and enjoying the time at school. I didn't realize that I'd messed up there until 2 quarters into the school year, so I hope that others who've read my stories will have the right mindset coming in and will save themselves the stress of staying up until 2-3am every night trying to read every selection for each day's lectures.