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by gtani 5377 days ago
I used to work with at least a couple dozen MBA's from 1 school, they gave me this advice for bus school:

1) don't lose your coding skills (I was good at perl/awk, APL, C and Fortran). This I did

2) concentrate on linear algebra, stats/prob, calculus (this i didn't)

3) take law school classes (this i did, they were gnarly)

tl;dr your 2nd year you can do pretty much whatever you want. You can make it a profoundly intellectual experience, or start your business, or whatever

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This is exactly what I did. I treat the MBA as just another tool. Started a business sadly it failed after a couple years, but I just moved out to SF last week and loving it. As an engineer with an MBA that can code well, does stats, and took a handful of law classes it's a seller's market.
i dont get it, whats so special about stats ? dont al engineers take a stats class and then end up not using most of the concepts ?