DAY IN THE LIFE Come to SCHOOL with me A day in the Life of an MBA at Arizona State University

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hi everyone welcome to my  channel if you're new here hello   it's nice to have you here today i'll be sharing  with you what a typical day in my life is like   as an mba student at arizona state university  today is monday and my class starts at 8 am   i typically don't wake up at a particular  time because of my work and school   schedule but i do try to have at  least seven hours of sleep every night   but mondays and wednesdays that i have 8am  classes i typically try to wake up around 6   am so that i can be very prepared for my day  so i do a couple of things to keep me awake   one of them is turning on the lights and turning  on my candle like this i got this one from ross   and it has really served me i like it a  lot i like the fragrance and the color   if i wake up with a song on my mind  i would probably have it playing   on my phone or my laptop on repeat while i do  my devotion i'm christian and i typically spend   about 30 minutes to an hour and a half studying  my bible praying worshiping dancing before God   seeking guidance for the new day and basically  staying connected depending on how i'm feeling   i might either use my table and chair or lay  in bed or sit on the floor like i'm doing today next i go ahead to arrange my bed arrange  the room and get ready for the day   typically when i have 8 am classes i  always pick up my outfit the night before   just so that i avoid unnecessary time wastage  because i do be coming up with different outfit   combinations and sometimes it doesn't exactly  pan out how i imagined it so i do all of that   testing the night before and aprove it and  i approve of it before i get into my new day a skincare brand called good molecules recently  reached out to me and gifted me some of their   products to try on so i have been religiously  using their products for the past two weeks now   and i can actually see improvements in my  skin i've been taking skincare seriously   since i moved here because i actually somehow  thought that automatically when i moved abroad   my skin will just glow but that was  not the case for me especially because   arizona has a very unique kind of weather but  i have been doing this i'll keep using it and   i honestly can't wait to heat all my skin care  goals please hit like on this video and drop a   comment if you have not at this point i'd  like to see what skincare products you use   as well and if you use sunscreen let me know  in the comment section what sunscreens you use   that doesn't turn white on your face  just let me know drop your comments below when i'm done cleansing i use a disposable  paper towel to wipe off my face and then go   have my bath and continue dressing up for the  day when i'm done dressing i turn off my candle   pack my school bag essentially my bag  is always packed the only thing i need   to add is my laptop and my charger and at  this point i have already booked my uber   so i'll just go into the fridge grab my  protein shake or a bottle of water and off i go the journey to school is a five minutes drive  it's also a 30 minutes walk for the days that i   choose to walk most of the time on the drive  i'm always engaging in small talk with the   uber you know funny how when i first moved to  this country i kind of found it strange that   everyone wants to talk to you like you at the mall  you're in the uber you're on the road and people   are just like talking to you but now i enjoy it  and i even start off conversations first myself   so this driver was telling me that he works for  instagram and he has seen a lot of creators do   videos because i told him that i was recording  a day in my life and he was so excited for me we arrived at school at a few minutes to 8 and  here i was ready to take on my challenge for the   day my first class at eight o'clock strategic  management mgt 589 it's a compulsory class for   everyone who is graduating i particularly like  this class because it takes the view of the   general manager of an organization so essentially  teaching you the strategic decision making you   need to have to be a manager in an organization  and also the manager of your own life so not just   managing an organization but knowing that you  are the manager of your life and the outcome of   your life um i got particularly hooked from our  very first assignment how to measure our lives   it was from an hbr article and i can link that  in the description for anyone who's interested   in reading that article as well so essentially  identifying the things that are important to you   and setting priorities and mapping out the course  of action okay this time i'm gonna ask all of   you to have to trust the world no matter what  give your best guess how many people would say one two three four five okay how many people said three four okay how many  people say it's a baby pretend   two three four five six  seven okay how many will say do so   okay so i just got done with my first class of  the day as you can see the class is empty now   um i'm just gonna take a short break  before lunch that's at 12 30. hey maha sorry am i coming uh am i interrupting you no  it's fine it's fine it's fine and yeah so see you while on the break i remember that someone from  the marketing team had reached out to me and asked   that i come pick up a copy of the alumni  magazine that my team and i got featured in   so i excitedly went to her office to pick  up a copy of my magazine wow look at us after picking up some copies of the magazine i  sat in the hallway for a bit you know just to be   an awe of everything it was so surreal i couldn't  believe that my mba program of almost two years   was nearing an end and in the short time i  had actually accomplished some great things   i remember how when i was back home in  nigeria and my sister was getting an mba   she won a case competition  and it was such a huge deal   it was such a huge deal i think she also won some  prize money with it and i just admired it now i'm   looking at myself not just winning my first case  competition but my second case competition in   the period of my mba and i'm just so excited so  happy so grateful that i am experiencing this   the competition involved top mbas from top  business schools helping small businesses   that have been affected by the covid  19 pandemic to create structures and   strategies for them to still be profitable  and we also won prize money for them as well up next was lunch we had potato  salad with sweet corn bread   um chicken pork sauces vegetables drinks some  mondays we have the food buffet style like this   and other times we have them packed in boxes  to go lunch is a great time where students   from the first year and the second year sit  down together just laugh talk eat and have fun okay so it's 1pm and i am done having lunch the  lunch was so good i am so full uh side like side   note did i tell you that asu gave us free lunch  every day in the first year like every single   day um in the second year it's just on mondays  you know or like in our first year you can go but in our first year we actually had free  lunch every day allow me to brag a little   please allow me these are some pictures of  some of the food that we got in first year   when i tell you asu's the school to  be don't doubt me okay don't doubt me   anyways my next class is at 1 30 p.m so i'm just  gonna sit around in a team room try to breathe   press my phone for a bit check my emails  impression for this class there was a case   to be read and an assignment i already  did that yesterday so i'm good i have   a great understanding of the case so i'm usually  just going to walk into the class so see ya let me show you around actually  let me show you around school this is the hallway if you're coming right  out of the elevator on the fourth floor   this is typically where you pass to get into the the team rooms and the main lecture hall  on our fourth floor so that hall right   there is where i had my first class is my  card four to two and then there are team   rooms here where people just sit and  meet or have their own personal time hey noor there's some more team rooms  at this end of the hall   and this is like the printing area  where students come and print documents come and say hi you know like working with the random companies to  strike a deal with them to be like hey if you're   showing products or whatever like that's not  almost like door-to-door sales in a way right   where she's getting her face and showing them  who she was versus just maybe trying to shoot   some emails or make some phone calls like she  was just jumping in at first to try and make this   happen the difference between uh entrepreneurs  and people working full-time jobs for someone   else right a 9-5 in this case she has to wake up  and make things happen every day okay what else   yes she has experience from making the dresses in  the factory sewing them and designing them herself   and then selling them creating brands for them  wearing them to pageants she kind of has a whole   new tune kind of view of fashion industry so  so somehow she understood so this class is our   learning lab class it's not just for mba students  but we have other graduate students from different   programs that were also taking the class so  essentially we used the innovators method to   work on a project first generating insights  discovering what the problem is finding the   solution using a prototype organizing what the  business model is and then finally scaling it up   for this case that we discussed in class  today it's actually a very interesting one   and it's about covertella they're a dress rental  company and we're essentially just diving deep   into the business and saying what insights we  could generate from how the business was run   after this class we broke into teams to work  on our projects so some people prefer to meet   online or others use the team rooms like we're  currently doing just to simulate ideas and work hi guys so it's um 4 30 and i'm done with my  learning lab class and the team meeting that   we had after class my next class is at 6 30 so  this two hours i'm just gonna sit outside here   in the sun and maybe when it gets too hot like  as you can see it's actually like very sunny   when it gets too hot i'll go inside and i have  two things on my plate basically i want to   start editing a video that i intend to push out on  friday i know that i'm not going to finish editing   it but like i want to start because it typically  takes me like five hours to completely edit   like a 12 to 15 minutes video but i just want to  start it now and then i'll complete it tomorrow   so there's that then i want to catch up  with messages on my phone whatsapp instagram emails um another thing i'll typically do is  to like read ahead of the class so you know the   mba is very participatory it's not like you know  undergrad where your lecturer is just teaching at   you you need to participate and for you to be able  to do that you need to actually read materials or   kisses or articles that the professor sends ahead  of the class but thankfully i got to do that over   the weekend and i still remember everything so  i'm not doing any of that during my break i'm just   gonna do like personal stuff enjoy myself relax  probably nap and then get ready for 6 30. thanks if you watch this video up until this point  please hit like on this video it lets me know   that people are actually watching my video and  not just clicking and jumping off so please hit   like on this video drop a comment let me know  what your thoughts are let me know if you have   any questions at all let me know if you have any  video recommendations or anything you'd like to   see or hear more about on my mba journey so  please drop a comment below if you're new and   you haven't subscribed please hit the subscribe  button and the bell notification button right   beside the subscribe button so you stay notified  every time i publish a new video thank you so   much also if you're new here say hello in the  comment section i like to connect with you let   me know where you're viewing my video from what  part of the world do you view my video from guys so i want to show you something it's  a robot that delivers food across campus   and i'm going to disturb the  movement of the robot right now   so i'm going to just stand in this way and  you'd see the detour that's gonna happen it's literally stopped and it's like  why are you in my way then it's turning   okay let me give you let me make way for it okay  go so i'm going to disturb it again watch watch   oh no it's running faster than me no did you notice that like  it stopped on the way okay   it's going a lot faster than me i  can't keep up i can't keep up guys   but yeah um so they deliver food around campus  and there's many of them i can show you more they met each other and they're like okay you get another one goodbye guys like they also cross major roads and   well major roads within the campus  and obey traffic lights while at it okay guys so it's 6 20 and i'm headed for my  final class for the day final class for today so this is the new ventures challenge class it's  for aspiring entrepreneurs and venture holders   essentially students come in to pitch their  ideas to vcs so if you notice there are all   the men in this class and their investors  or venture capitalists who have a ton of   money and experience just here to guide students  seeing how they can turn their pitches or their   business ideas into reality in this class we do  everything from financial modeling to evaluation   to presenting peaches to some documentation and  forecasting i particularly like the practicality   of the class it's very hands on and experiential  you're exposed to many things that you wouldn't   learn in textbooks and this is because you have  mentors who have actually gone through the process   and you also have the opportunity to if  you like you know compete for prize money   so it's a win-win for students i typically  call it a day from this class around 9 15 9 30   and then i book my uber and go home most likely  i just get home drink water and sleep because i'm   all tired but not every day is like this in fact  i only have classes on mondays and on wednesdays   the other days of the week i use them to do  my projects my assignments and other personal   projects so like i said earlier the second year  is a lot more flexible than the first year in the   first year i had classes every day of the week but  in the second year you get to pick your schedule   and decide what works for you so how was your  night uh my day and night it was good i've had   classes since 8 a.m oh yeah yep and my last class  ended around like 9 30 9 30 the night yeah oh wow

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2022-04-20

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