So one minute you’re geeking out around campus with an iPaq, collecting wireless network connectivity percentages and GPS data, and the next minute you’re asked to do a photo shoot in front of the CFA building for the MBA Viewbook. My masters project partner in crime and I were wandering around with an iPaq when two women with a big camera asked us to pose in front of CFA with a laptop and a folder full of paper and “pretend we were laughing and talking to each other.” Needless to say, we didn’t have to pretend either, and the iPaq even made it into the shoot.
We never mentioned that 1) we don’t look like MBA students, 2) MBA students don’t hang out in front of the College of Fine Arts, only smoking undergraduates dressed all in black do that, and 3) MBA students don’t use Macintosh laptops. And if you are wondering what makes me the premier expert in MBA student behavior and academic rituals, I refer you to Superstar, who is even more learned than me in that particular area.
I’m sure in fifteen years we’ll regret posing for that shoot, when they’re still handing out the same worn out brochures to the MBA class of 2020, with photos of us dressed in frumpy “I only got up this morning to collect project data” outfits on, staring at each other affectedly while holding cheesy business props. I can’t wait to see it.
