How can I contact someone who is an MBA at Bentley College?

dpakman91 · 08-03-2006, 11:49 AM

I am going there in the fall and want to talk to someone about how much work it really is...but i don't know how to find or contact someone who's in the MBA program now.

how could i do it?

Ardentfrost · 08-03-2006, 11:54 AM

contact this person

Vicki LaFarge
Associate Professor and Department Chair
Adamian Academic Center
Room 320
781.891.2089
vlafarge@bentley.edu

Department chairs are generally the people who have the most information about anything. You tell her you're interested in meeting someone in the program while you're up there, and she'll pick out a top student to show you around

Ardentfrost · 08-03-2006, 11:54 AM

Got that from this link

contact : Bentley

dpakman91 · 08-03-2006, 12:43 PM

ah, yeah i was aware of that, i've talked to ac ouple different people in Adamian. One lady told me i should expect 6-10 hours of homework PER WEEK for EACH COURSE, which just sounds hard to believe, because it seems unlikely a full time student taking 5 courses is spending 30-50 hours OTHER than the 10 hours of class time each week.

thomez · 08-03-2006, 01:05 PM

Originally Posted by dpakman91

ah, yeah i was aware of that, i've talked to ac ouple different people in Adamian. One lady told me i should expect 6-10 hours of homework PER WEEK for EACH COURSE, which just sounds hard to believe, because it seems unlikely a full time student taking 5 courses is spending 30-50 hours OTHER than the 10 hours of class time each week.

they said the same for undergrad

1 hour in class = 3 hours outside class

it never works that way, at least for me

Ardentfrost · 08-03-2006, 01:18 PM

Originally Posted by dpakman91

ah, yeah i was aware of that, i've talked to ac ouple different people in Adamian. One lady told me i should expect 6-10 hours of homework PER WEEK for EACH COURSE, which just sounds hard to believe, because it seems unlikely a full time student taking 5 courses is spending 30-50 hours OTHER than the 10 hours of class time each week.

no no, I mean, contact them and tell them you would like to talk to a real student... don't ask THEM your questions, they don't know shit of what it's like to be a student there.

dpakman91 · 08-03-2006, 01:37 PM

Originally Posted by Ardentfrost

no no, I mean, contact them and tell them you would like to talk to a real student... don't ask THEM your questions, they don't know shit of what it's like to be a student there.

touché

dpakman91 · 08-03-2006, 01:43 PM

Originally Posted by thomez

they said the same for undergrad

1 hour in class = 3 hours outside class

it never works that way, at least for me

yeah undergrad i spent in most cases ZERO time each week outsied of class...undergraduate was a lot like high school...i just think that grad school might be totally different. i just looked at one syllabus for a possible class, and it's 16 pages...and i might be taking FOUR of those courses.

ballz2wallz · 08-03-2006, 04:33 PM

yeah, don't ask the chair, ask them who you could contact. typically departments have people in charge of new student stuff. perhaps there's a link to a name in charge of student applicants on their website. i'd contact them. the chairs are alwyas very busy.

Ardentfrost · 08-03-2006, 04:49 PM

Originally Posted by ballz2wallz

yeah, don't ask the chair, ask them who you could contact. typically departments have people in charge of new student stuff. perhaps there's a link to a name in charge of student applicants on their website. i'd contact them. the chairs are alwyas very busy.

Chairs are generally also professors and since it's a master's program, probably have students of their own. Emailing them a request to talk to a student will probably get you one of their own students, and who will know more about professors and such than the student of the chair?

ballz2wallz · 08-03-2006, 04:50 PM

Originally Posted by Ardentfrost

Chairs are generally also professors and since it's a master's program, probably have students of their own. Emailing them a request to talk to a student will probably get you one of their own students, and who will know more about professors and such than the student of the chair?

this is true, but most chairs i've ever come in contact with hardly respond to emails of people they don't know. i've typically had to write their adminstrator

Ardentfrost · 08-03-2006, 04:58 PM

Originally Posted by ballz2wallz

this is true, but most chairs i've ever come in contact with hardly respond to emails of people they don't know. i've typically had to write their adminstrator

it's probably worth a shot

dpakman91 · 08-03-2006, 05:10 PM

ok, i contacted a general email, and they already had a student, who is also prez of the graduate student organization email me, so i've emailed her with my questions, and we'll soon hear back...

the idea of spending 6-10 hours for EACH of FOUR courses a week on homework is simply insane.

Ardentfrost · 08-03-2006, 05:12 PM

If her answers seem too prepared to you, just find a graduate student when you go there and ask them

ballz2wallz · 08-03-2006, 05:23 PM

Originally Posted by dpakman91

ok, i contacted a general email, and they already had a student, who is also prez of the graduate student organization email me, so i've emailed her with my questions, and we'll soon hear back...

the idea of spending 6-10 hours for EACH of FOUR courses a week on homework is simply insane.

welcome to a graduate education

dpakman91 · 08-03-2006, 05:24 PM

Originally Posted by ballz2wallz

welcome to a graduate education

heh, i know plenty of grad students though, none are spending 25-40 hours per week on homework.

Ardentfrost · 08-03-2006, 05:52 PM

My fiance got her Master's in Biology and spent 60-70 hours a week doing reseaerch and writing her thesis.

But an MBA is a bit different

motivez · 08-03-2006, 05:54 PM

How far away is it from where you are now? Couldn't just run up there?

dpakman91 · 08-03-2006, 09:04 PM

Originally Posted by motivez

How far away is it from where you are now? Couldn't just run up there?

2 hours away, in just a couple hours i put all the wheels in motion thoguh so i shold be able to find everything out.

dpakman91 · 08-04-2006, 09:49 AM

ok, that current student told me i should expect to spend 10 hours of week PER CLASS on work outside of classtime