Fellow Classmates
The Game: Avoiding Enemies
It's prtty simple: you want to
be successful, but you risk alienating others.
What do you do?
At
the risk of using trite analogies, business
school is a Game. Whether you wish to call
it a rat race or snakes and ladders, you
will encounter more challenges and injustice
than you would like to. But as you can imagine,
life is unfair so get used to it.
What
school does is teach you different tools
that you can use once you graduate. It is
thus in your interest to pick up complementary
tools. These tools come in the shape of
classes, theories and contacts. Most of
these may become obsolete by graduation
day, so make sure that you can detach yourself
from them.
Friends
may become foes, enemies may turn into allies,
the key is being able to judge characters
and personality traits. The same way that
you must be able to detach yourself from
redundant tools, you just may have to detach
yourself from the people
you befriend.
Sad,
but true.
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