{"id":10235,"date":"2017-11-07T09:30:06","date_gmt":"2017-11-07T09:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hnews.hult.edu\/?p=10235"},"modified":"2026-05-06T11:59:55","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T10:59:55","slug":"real-life-starts-now-blink-or-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hult.edu\/blog\/real-life-starts-now-blink-or-think\/","title":{"rendered":"Real life starts now \u2013 Blink or Think?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Written by Aaron Salamon, Global Ambassador and MBA Class of 2018.<\/p>\n

Having just re-read my first blog post about my experience of Immersion on the MBA program<\/a>,\u00a0I noticed how unbelievably positive I was! I used terms such as \u201cloved\u201d, \u201cexceeded expectations\u201d and \u201camped up\u201d\u2026 could I be any more cheesy if I tried? But that\u2019s what things are like at the beginning of any relationship aren\u2019t they? Things are new, exciting, awesome, fun\u2026but at some point, it moves from there to reality. My last post had all the hallmarks of the honeymoon phase, and that is certainly what immersion was for me\u2026<\/p>\n

But as I have transitioned through these last two weeks, I can feel a noticeable shift towards a less rose-coloured reality. Enter the heavy workload I was expecting. A Research Methods project has kicked off, weekly Accounting homework continues, Organisational Behaviour mid-terms this week, as well as a whole lot more extra-curricular stuff. All this running parallel with forming of new friendships [Taco Tupelo Tuesdays, rooftop parties and game nights continue to be a prominent feature], and an ever so slight shift in the weather towards autumn (ok, I\u2019m lying, it was 28 degrees on Sunday<\/em>).<\/p>\n

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Hult MBA San Francisco Class of 2018.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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And you know what\u2026 I\u2019m still loving it!<\/h2>\n<\/blockquote>\n

And you know what\u2026 I\u2019m still loving it! Six weeks have flown by; my arm is improving every day which is awesome, but I have only to\u00a0BLINK<\/strong>\u00a0for one second, and the week has gone. if I fail to\u00a0THINK<\/strong>\u00a0about what I want out of each day, and it rushes completely by, I will never get it back.<\/p>\n

In both my Organisational Behaviour class with Prof Kirnon, and Research Methods class with Prof Olsen, we\u2019ve discussed how we all make decisions, and in particular focussing on two modes of thinking [Kahneman, Traversky (1979)]:<\/p>\n