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Northwestern defeats Purdue – now 6-1

October 18, 2008 by Ryan Barr

Today Megan, Ryder and I headed off to Evanston for a Kellogg Alumni tailgate before the Homecoming football game vs. the Purdue Boilermakers.  NU simply stomped on the boilers today.  It was a really good time.
The pre-game tailgate was at the Allen center, and very fun.  We had a chance to meet a bunch [...]

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MBA Olympics

October 6, 2008 by Ryan Barr

This weekend Megan, Ryder and I headed downtown to support the Kellogg team in the MBA Olympics.  Unfortunately we did not do so well
The trip was great fun and it was a great time to get out and spend some none academic time with my fellow Kellogg students, as well as those from [...]

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Leadership Core Series

September 27, 2008 by Ryan Barr

This afternoon I spent the day at the downtown campus attending the first session of the Leadership Core Series (LCS).
The day was divided into two sessions, one on negotiations and the other on teamwork.  The focus on the day was leveraging experiential learning to quickly gain a broad understanding of the two topics.  Obviously covering [...]

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Kellogg, week one is done.

September 25, 2008 by Ryan Barr

Let me just say again that Kellogg is a fantastic business school.  This week marks my first two classes in my three year(ish) journey to a Kellogg MBA.  This quarter I’m taking Business Strategy and Accounting.  My goal was to get a quant and qual course at that same time to balance out the workload [...]

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Registration and Orientation

September 7, 2008 by Ryan Barr

Well, I’m absolutely sure that Kellogg was the right choice.
This past Friday and Saturday I spent the day in downtown Chicago and Evanston respectively. On Friday the PTMBA program kicked off registration and a general review of the program.
We started the day simply going over the process and learning how registration will work going [...]

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Registration Friday!

September 1, 2008 by Ryan Barr

The journey to a Kellogg MBA is about to finally begin! I’ve received all of my Registration materials from the University and will trek down to Evanston this coming Friday. I’ll have a chance to meet with my fellow Fall 2008 classmates and get a few classes ready to go.
Based upon the schedule [...]

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Why Kellogg?

April 1, 2008 by Ryan Barr

I’ve been getting a lot of questions from people asking why Kellogg? So here are a few of my reasons:
It is absolutely one of the best schools in the country
Did I mention that Kellogg is one of the absolute best schools in the country? You can qualify this any any numbers of ways, but the [...]

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Kellogg Bound

January 26, 2008 by Ryan Barr

It’s official. I’ve been accepted to, and will attend, the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University!
It has been a very difficult decision process to figure out which school I will attend. I only applied to the best of the best and have been accepted to multiple top 5 schools.
Over the past month [...]

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