Cross-posted from MIT Sloan's Admissions Blog , where I will be writing about my experience in the MBA admissions process (painful!) and my first semester as an MBA student (glorious!). This post goes out the poets, the ladies, and anyone from a non-business background who shudders at the world “derivative.” Hear ye, hear ye: You are my people! My name is Caroline Mauldin, and I am a first year MBA candidate at MIT Sloan School of Management. I have never worked in finance, or commercial real estate, or energy, or management consulting. Until recently, I thought PE was an acronym for that treacherous elementary school class in which we had to run a mile and do push-ups in front of our pre-adolescent classmates (physical education, also not my thing). Turns out it stands for Private Equity. Right! Though originally from South Carolina, there’s something about Boston that keeps pulling me back. I received my Bachelor’s degree from Tufts University, later worked at a Bost
Reflections on finding and holding the Center.