Key takeaway about orientation week?

I discovered that things aren’t always what they seem and to trust my gut if something doesn’t feel right, even if I can’t explain why. Just because it looks like a knot, and ties like a knot, doesn’t mean it’s a knot.

I feel fortunate to be able to take the time and forgo the money to uproot my wife and I to Vancouver so I can pursue an MBA. There are a lot of really smart people in this program I can learn from. But more importantly, there are some people here that I can really relate to and potentially make some really cool stuff with.

I’m ready for this program and despite all the stress and hard work I’m going to experience in the next few months I have no doubt it will be worth it all in the end. This is the right program for me and I for it.

Before I took this program somebody told me “don’t be a cog in the machine”. I take this advice to heart, and believe this is the right program for me to differentiate myself and not be a cog.