Funny Ironic Moments

Life has funny ironic moments and Sunday was one of them.

For the past year, I have been actively researching business schools in Europe and asking Alumni about their experiences. Now here come the irony.

Dear UCSB Alumni,
Thank you for volunteering to represent UCSB at this year’s Chancellor’s Reception... Chancellor Yang will speak to all UCSB representatives including faculty, staff, students and alumni. Following the Chancellor's welcome, you will have the opportunity to mingle with prospective students and their parents as well as enjoy some refreshments.
Go Gauchos!

Chancellor Yang, is making a drive to bring the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) to the rankings of UCLA and UC Berkeley. He has recruited top researchers/professors, 5 of whom have become noble laureates since 1998. The Chancellor also wants to recruit the top students of California.

My time at UCSB was an important period of my life, as I'm certain my future at B-School will be also. To help my beloved alma mater, I volunteered as an alumnus. I was expecting 200-300 people. 850+ perspective students and parents attended. WOW~ From 11:30 to 2:30, I was retelling past experiences, fielding questions, dispelling the UCSB party image, redirecting parents/students to UCSB faculty, staff, current students, etc etc... It was intense, but more importantly, it was a BLAST! I'm going have do that again. hehe...

UCSB panel of Department Deans, students, and faculty

UCSB panel of Department Deans, students, and faculty

850+ Perspective students and their Parents





Interesting note. As I introduced myself to other Alumni, I commented that I co-founded a multicultural fraternity, Sigma Chi Omega. The fraternity does a lot of community work, but the most impressive is the Multicultural show (UCSB clubs, sorority, fraternity performance) , we organize every year. A few alumni came to me afterwards and said their club/sorority/fraternity participated in the event. That was nice. It's a good feeling to know of my legacy at UCSB. I wonder what will hold for me at my future B-school.