MBA Quant Experience

I had a fantastic experience teaching a 3-day pre-orientation quantitative skills course for 89 incoming Johnson School first years.  Lots of getting-started energy as students returned to the classroom for the first time in years combined with some quant anxiety at the outset.  By the end of three days and 24 hours of class time, friendships were forming and rusty algebra skills were coming back.

We covered a mix of finance, accounting, marketing, economics, probability, and statistics.

The teaching environment in Sage Hall was first class, the weather was perfect late summer warmth allowing exploratory evening strolls around campus and through the gorges.  Yes, they are gorgeous!

I closed out the experience on Friday evening with a quick Ithaca Pale Ale in the basement of Ruloffs in the company of students.

On the way out of town on Saturday morning, I picked up some great bagels at Collegetown Bagels in downtown Ithaca and a mix of bread and coffee from the nearby Ithaca Bakery before heading north to the Adirondacks for some R&R.

Next up in the classroom, a 3-hour MBA Math Finance Workshop for prospective MBAs on Friday at Wharton in Philadelphia as part of the 2-day MBADiversity Symposium followed by a 5-day "math camp" next week for incoming Tuck first years in Hanover.