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Law School: For those who can't hack MBA programs |
| Message Name: |
you |
| Date Posted: |
09/24/1999 |
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As a alumni of both the Indiana University Graduate School of Business and School of Law, I want to say that both programs offer the opportunity to develop unique sets of skills that properly utilized can complement each other. Obviously, both teach factual matter. However, the life and work skills that each teach are different. The law school program teaches you how to think and how to work as an individual. I'd like to say it taught me great research skills, but I don't think it did. However, people who chose different course offerings may have come out with better research skills than I did, and my failure to acquire better research skills than I did is probably as much my fault as the schools. The MBA program teaches quantitative skills, creates an overall understanding of the interaction of various disciplines in the business world, and teaches people to work in groups. You could sometimes choose your own group, but, as in the real world, your teammates were frequently not of your own choice. Having to work with people that you really don't like (and having to hide that fact) is simply good training for the real world. Personally, I think the two degrees are a great combination. Law firms are businesses and business people need an understanding of the law. Being the intraverted, loner sort, I preferred law school, but I wouldn't say either program is better than the other - just different. |
| Message: |
you, my friend, are a nerd.
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