It’s been almost a year since you last heard from me. You can bet that a lot has changed: the cohort I started with, '18J, has graduated; I’m the mother of an 8-month old boy, I’m doing an internship in Beijing this summer, and I’m about to move to Singapore for P4 with the '18Ds. Many students and prospective applicants have reached out to me about my experience being pregnant and being a mother at INSEAD, so here I will summarise a few thoughts on this topic: Being Pregnant

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Are you a hard worker? Have you reached that point in your career where you believe that everything should be falling into place, yet something is just missing? Join the club! My name is Esmat and I was in your shoes exactly nine months ago, but in my case, I knew precisely what I was missing: a new adventure that would enrich me as an individual and guide me to a totally new stage of my life.

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The Background After spending over four years in investment banking, my main motivation to come to INSEAD was to pivot my career journey - from corporate to community. So, I was determined to spend my summer gaining experience and exposure in the social impact space.

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Hi everyone! First, let’s start with a little introduction: my name is Vitor, I’m a 28-year-old Brazilian writing to you from Thailand, just before I begin my INSEAD journey in Singapore (Yeah it's good to be travelling a bit and getting to know a few new places). In my first post here, I would like to talk about why I decided to do an MBA, why INSEAD was always my first choice, and some tips for the application process.

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From the moment you get that call from INSEAD, you are already an INSEADer. When I had the excellent problem of choosing my B-school, I went for the school that I felt, had the ‘right kind of vibe’. And INSEAD did not disappoint.

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It was a summery night in Miami in April, and I knew that once again I was going to make another turn in my life path. On that day, I decided to tell my manager that I was leaving for INSEAD in a month. My departure, unlike many others, was an already anticipated leave. I had been working in the same company for nearly five years and everyone was already aware that I was leaving, they just didn’t know when. Ever since I heard the news I was accepted into INSEAD, it felt a little unreal.

• Read more about My Stopover Decisions

That's it, you've completed the GMAT, spent hours on submitting applications, got excited with each interview invitation and now, after all this exhilarating long journey - you are holding offers from multiple b-schools. Good job! I thought I would be the happiest man alive had I gotten only one offer out of the plethora of schools I've applied to. But I had no idea that holding three offers would give me such a headache and about a month of practically sleepless nights!

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Hey everyone! My name is Elias Charara, MBA’19J. I will be joining the Fontainebleau campus in a week, and am very excited to write this first post, hopefully of many that I will be writing during the year. I am grateful to have been given the opportunity to share what I believe will be a great year (“the best of your life”, in the words of all alumni I met), and to encourage potential future INSEADers to join the family.

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It was 7 October 2010, a month before my final undergraduate exams, that I knew life would have to be different. Before this point, my life in South Africa had always consisted of two constants, my father and my brothers. With the setting of the sun that day, I was left with one.   My journey to INSEAD started with my parents, who took incredible risks from when I was born in Uganda to allow us to transition to lives that were spent between Uganda and South Africa for most of our upbringing.

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Resy is a mobile app for people who love eating out at great restaurants but hate hassling for reservations. It allows diners to pay for access to hot tables on tight timelines. One of Resy’s co-founders is Ben Leventhal, who also co-founded eater.com, a website that provides news and dining guides from across the country.

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