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You know You graduated from b-school
YOU KNOW YOU'RE READY TO GRADUATE FROM B-SCHOOL WHEN
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1. You ask the waiter what the restaurant's core competencies are.
2. You decide to re-org your family into a "team-based organization."
3. You refer to dating as test marketing.
4. You understand your airline's fare structure.
5. You write executive summaries on your love letters.
6. You think that it's actually efficient to write a ten page paper with
six other people you don't know.
7. You believe you never have problems in your life, just "issues" and
"improvement opportunities."
8. You know every single piece of clip art in PowerPoint.
9. You calculate your own personal cost of capital.
10. You explain to your bank manager that you prefer to think of yourself
as "highly leveraged" as opposed to "in debt."
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11. You ask your bank manager if she has heard of "Modigliani-Miller,"
and then you ask her if she has a pizza so you can show her.
12. You can explain to somebody the difference between "re-engineering",
"downsizing", "right-sizing", and "firing people's asses."
13. You actually believe your explanation in number 12.
14. You enjoy using an HP-19B.
15. You refer to your previous life as "my sunk cost."
16. You believe CAPM is just as important as the Theory of Relativity.
17. You believe CAPM.
18. At your last family reunion, you wanted to have an emergency meeting
about their brand equity.
19. You've decided the only way to afford a house is to call your fellow
alumni and offer to name a room after them, if they'll help with the down
payment.
20. You refer to your job rejections as the idiosyncratic risk you face.
21. You use the term "value-added" without falling down laughing.
22. You give constructive feedback to your dog.
23. You think about things in terms of "psychological ceilings."
24. It's becoming increasingly difficult to keep a straight face when you
introduce yourself as a "graduate student" at parties.
25. You refer to drinking in public as a networking opportunity.
26. You come up with a five page internal transfer pricing mechanism with
your roommates for the food and drink in your fridge.
27. You brainstorm your shopping list.