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Second-year student tells the WSJ that his experience at Johnson has allowed him to "seize the day"

10/12/2011 1:40:00 PM

Paul Margarites, '12, also credits his visit to campus with helping him decide where to get his MBA

In "Is an MBA worth it?" (Wall Street Journal, Oct. 6),  Paul Margarites, '12, says, "Seizing the day is actually something the M.B.A. program has allowed me to do. Suddenly I had time where I wasn't doing my job the entire day, and I was allowed to use a slew of resources, the most important of which were my classmates. We ended up developing our own ideas, doing our own stuff—things that I would have liked to have done on my own, but at that point in my career I couldn't have done. MORE

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