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Health Care Immersion Week
With Mod 1 final exams over in October, many of my classmates began a well-deserved weeklong break from school. As a first-year Health Care MBA, however, I prepared for the first step in earning the “health care” part of my degree: Immersion Week. I, like most of my fellow Health Care MBA’s, came to Owen specifically for the health care specialization and had been hearing about Immersion Week and its purpose—experiencing the clinical side of health care before starting our education on the business side—for months. I had signed up for my clinical rotations, sent in my scrub sizes, picked up my Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) badge, and was ready to go.
One of the most anticipated (and for some, scary) parts of the week was the operating room rotations. I arrived at VUMC bright and early on my assigned day, suited up in hospital scrubs, cap, mask, and booties, and was ushered through an OR door. Soon, I was standing a few feet away from two plastic surgeons as they tried to save a motorcycle accident victim’s leg from amputation by repairing blood vessels and applying skin grafts. Fortunately I’m not squeamish because the injuries were severe enough that the nurses seemed concerned I might faint just looking at the leg before the surgery even began. I walked out afterwards never wanting to ride a motorcycle, but before going under anesthesia the patient insisted that he would be back on his soon.
Posted in Graduate Life, Guest & Alumni Bloggers, Industry Insights, OwenBloggers Tagged business school, healthcare, immersion, mba, owen, owenbloggers Leave a comment
Exploring Nashville: Haunted Halloween
There are a number of fun activities to take part in in Nashville, and Halloween is always a great time to get out and enjoy what the city has to offer. Recently a group of 2nd years headed out to Honeysuckle Hill Farm’s Haunted Woods and Corn Maze to scare ourselves silly in celebration of Halloween. We caravanned out to the location and immediately started getting into the fall spirit, jumping around on the “Corn Popper,” a giant trampoline populated entirely by children until we showed up. The kids jumping around us definitely outlasted us on that, although Taylor did succeed in “cracking the egg” with Skylar.
Next, we made our way to the Corn Maze, studied the map, and then headed in, but somehow the maze didn’t seem to correspond to the map we’d seen. After wandering around for 30 minutes or so we finally made our way back out to the maze entrance, where we were told we’d been lost in the “kiddie” maze the entire time and hadn’t even made it into the actual adult maze pictured on the map, oops.
Posted in Nashville, OwenBloggers, Stephanie Dozier '13 Tagged cool places, nashville, owen Leave a comment
Learning While Old[er]
Profiling is an ugly thing. Back in January, I was asked for my ID at the Peabody Commons late one night when I went to get a snack because I didn’t fit the “typical student profile.” I know I was profiled because when I asked the guard if I was being profiled, she said, “I’m doing all that.” After filing a complaint, I haven’t seen her there again. It appears she’s “doing all that” somewhere else now.
It is frustrating and anger provoking to be treated that way. It is particularly anger provoking to be treated that way on the campus of a university where I have paid $43,000 a year to attend. Capitalism lesson: service and respect flows in the opposite direction that the money flows.
I am happy to report that this is the opposite treatment that I have received at Owen and from my fellow Owenites.
Now, what I’m about to say is going to shock most of my classmates. I know because of the way I act, the music I listen to, my warped sense of humor, and my rugged and youthful appearance, most assume that I am about 16 years old. I am actually 47. Yes. 4 and 7, 47.
Posted in Graduate Life, Guest & Alumni Bloggers, Why Owen? Tagged learning, owen, student life 1 Comment
What’s in a Grade?
So now
that Mod 2 is done… it’s time for grades. Who cares… this is grad school,
right? I thought that grades weren’t supposed to matter. (somewhere in New
Hampshire my parents are crying) Yet every time grades are issued, the same questions
pop up, the same issues are raised, and the same complaints are aired.
I have
had professors comment on the fixation that our class (2010) has on our grades.
Not so much that we “Grade Grub”, but that we generally worry about our scores
too much, as though we were undergrads. Some have asked “Why do we care?” … “Most
of the companies do not use it as a measure of employability.”
This question has been posed by most
of my professors… and of course when this conversation starts, someone always
chimes in “If grades don’t matter, then I’ll take an SP, thank you.” (I try to
be first, just in case they say yes… SP is the Owen version of a 4.0 / A ) It IS
true that most disciplines don’t ask to see a GPA. (Finance is the exception.)
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged dores, duke, finance, grade grub, grades, harvard, healthcare, hop, mba, owen, owenbloggers, vadnerbilt, vanderbilt 1 Comment
Ask An OwenBlogger: How Green Is Owen?
Hi Owen Bloggers -
First of all, thank you for putting so much information on the OwenBloggers website. It has been an extremely valuable way to learn about the MBA program as I’ve gone through the application process.
As someone who plans to make a career in sustainable business, I was pleased to read about Owen’s involvement with Net Impact. But one thing I was wondering (that I’ve noticed when researching other schools) is whether or not Owen has its own sustainable plan for the facilities?
Tagged green, Leed, net impact, owen, Owen Net Impact, owenbloggers 1 Comment