Word: ambro
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Social life is mostly organized around the students' sections, groups of 90 students with whom B-Schoolers attend all their first-year classes. Each section collects social dues of about $75 from each student at the beginning of the year, says Gary S. Ambro, a first-year student...
...Unfortunately, people work pretty hard here," Ambro says. "You might spend 10 hours a day doing cases. A big part of what you [should] get out of the B-School is the people you meet. I don't think there's enough emphasis on that unofficial part of the curriculum...
...Schoolers each Friday afternoon after classes. Every Wednesday about 75 students flock to The Pub for a "two-case" night which B-Schoolers say means they spend only six hours on the next day's homework instead of nine. And, there is also an informal "Wednesday night club," which Ambro says was "this big excuse to go drinking with everybody...
Because there are no formal lines of connection between the College and the Business School, the Boathouse plays a crucial role in allowing the graduate students to mingle with the undergraduates, Ambro says...
...approximate seven-to-three ratio of men to women among B-Schoolers, such connections are necessary. "Last week, to make the party really move [at a Friday night B-School gathering that featured four kegs and a band] we had to advertise at Wellesley [to invite women]," Ambro says...