By Xiaobo Cao, MBA Class of 2012

Earlier this semester, when I saw the new first year MBA students, I suddenly realized that I had completed half of the MBA program. I’m a second year now. I looked at their faces and smiled. They were cautious, curious, and some even frustrated. Now I know what my class looked like one year ago.

And when I look back, everything is like a dream. So many things have happened in one single year, and the pace of life has never been so fast.  The lives of MBA students are hard indeed. However, we survived and we gained a lot. The most important thing that we’ve learnt might not be the knowledge, but the whole mindset that makes us think like real business people. We now tend to think about problems from a higher perspective, and we value process and people more than anything else. I can feel that I’m now different than before, and I’m sure these two years in Smeal will be one of the most valuable periods in my life.