Time does fly and it seems like Easter was just yesterday. With only three more class weekends to wrap up the first year of business school, in some sense, I'm already missing it. Remembering all the stupendous moments over the year, the group telecons, the late nights, the breezy bites during break time, the ebar conversations, the scribbles on whiteboards, the skits, the presentations.. but amid the toil, there was definitely laughter. Oddly, I found that strangely do-able. Hey, if it isn't hurting, it isn't working!
I hope you had a fun filled weekend. This past weekend 'the gals' of our class decided to head out for a casual get together and dinner after class. Our evening at Nyack's cozy little restaurant
(http://www.lanternausa.com) was timely. No particular reason for this celebrated night, then again since we are rational MBA students and being that we are also cool business women - we had to have a planfull approach to executing this event. Yup, emails back and forth, discussing possible restaurant choices, finalizing a meeting date, and other logistical coordination. In any case, it boiled down it being about us fabulous Cornell EMBA '09 women meeting up for dinner, and doing what they love to do when we had a few moments i.e. 'just chilling'.
I am proud to be part of a Cornell Executive MBA batch with the maximum number of female students in the program, ever. We have some really smart, dynamic and impressive woman executives in the '09 class. I am glad to know and to be acquainted with all 21 of them.
As a South Asian American woman, 'culture' is so very important and is very much part of my identity. I recall that the first lesson I learned as a South Asian woman in corporate America, is that I don't have to compromise my values, but I really must master how I articulate them. Why do I bring this up? Being a first generation Indian American woman - networking with women executives in the program, each from diverse professional, personal (some single, some married with no kids, some with kids) and cultural backgrounds, makes me rationalize and appreciate as to how we as real American women authentically engage in all facets of our lives and manage to do so, all while undergoing the program.
Women power is definitely to the fore today and is significantly embraced by the Cornell EMBA program.
