ALL POSTS BY: Mack Elder

It was only when I walked into the Student Life Center and saw the assembled mass that I realized I had thrown myself into an awfully big, and awfully difficult, adventure.

We are all coming to Vanderbilt from wildly different walks of life. We are doctors and lawyers, we are investment bankers and stock traders, we are engineers and entrepreneurs. I’m arriving from the music industry, having spent the last few years running a label in New York. Every one of us has a different skill set, and we are all approaching the new opportunity of the MBA program with a unique and ready mindset.

And by the time lunch rolled around, everyone I met felt like they were staggering from the amount that had been thrown at us. Here are the people with whom you’re going to work and play for the next two years. Here are the professors, the administrators, the colleagues. Here are concepts which you’re going to be expert in shortly, but which currently feel like a foreign language. Then there’s a tremendous success story from an incredible speaker to show you what Owen and life after might be like for you. Oh, and there’s going to be a lot of math.