This Week

• No class on Monday Feb 20.
• The Program Office will be closed on Monday Feb 20 in observance of Presidents' Day.
• We will reopen the office on Tuesday Feb 21 at 4PM (staff will be in an off-site retreat until then).

Class of 2025 

• Financial Accounting will be a combined lecture on Tuesday Feb 21 in N100.

Announcements

• If you normally park in Underhill, MBA Semester Permits will only be valid on Underhill Levels 3 & 4 on game days. Games are in the evening.
• The area immediately around Haas is not affected, please expect traffic along Bancroft Ave to Downtown on game days. Full basketball game day parking rules here.

Class of 2025

• Want to learn more about planning your elective journey?
• Curious about Bidding and Add/Drop?
• Want to know more about Summer Electives?
• Join your advisor for First Year Advising Sessions!

Important Reminders

• Found Items/Club Swag
  • The Program Office can only hold items for a month after it's dropped off. This includes found items with a name, or things from other students or student groups, e.g. club swag.
  • If you received a courtesy email from our office, please pick it up by the posted deadline.
  • If items are not picked up, it will be donated it to ReUSE, UC Berkeley's campus thrift store.

Saturday Scoop

• This week's Program Office staff are Mark Gorenflo and Christine Lee, our Student Assistant. Drop by S440 and say hello!

• Please expect extra guests in and around Chou Hall for the FTMBA Days at Haas yield event. Thank you for your patience!

• Do not park in...
  • Berkeley Law Lot (reserved for a memorial service at the Faculty Club)
  • Bancroft Lot (the one under the tennis courts, also reserved for a memorial service)
  • Underhill (Residence Hall Event - Silent Disco)
    • Special Events Parking says to avoid Underhill because they’re expecting 1,200 undergraduate students for the event.
• Probably OK
  • Bowles (might have a few spaces reserved for the Rugby match at Witter Field).
  • Upper Hearst (Hearst Ave at La Loma Ave)
  • Ridge Lot (Ridge Rd at La Loma Ave)
  • Foothill (up the hill towards Lawrence Livermore Lab)
• As always, please check any posted signs at lot entrances!

• We'll be off-site for lunch this day as the Women in Leadership Conference in the Courtyard.
• Please pick up your lunch at Freehouse. The Freehouse patios are available but will fill up pretty quickly, but there are also tables in front of the Law School.

Student Groups

Events

• Join the Center for Social Sector Leadership (CSSL) for lunch as Tom Chi of At One Ventures shares his work catalyzing a world in which humanity is a net positive to nature.
• Learn about job opportunities with companies that are pioneering new, regenerative industries.
• Register for the Careers in Social Impact event.

News About You

• Interested in getting hands-on experience in the world of venture capital? Courtyard Ventures is a student-led Venture Capital fund that invests in companies founded by Berkeley students and Alumni. Courtyard Ventures already has 70 investors from the MBA community investing as little as $5,000 USD. The fund will be closing for student investments at the end of Feb 2023.
• Fun Fact 1: Berkeley is the second largest producer of founders among all other U.S. schools. Just among MBA’s, we produce 1.4 unicorns for every 1000 MBA students!
• If you are interested in learning more about Courtyard Ventures, please reach out to the following GPs on Slack to set up a 1:1 call or use their calendly links in the Courtyard Ventures Pitchdeck.
• The Fund II GPs are: 
  • Xan Wood, FT 24
  • Bruno Sanovicz, FT 24
  • Elias Mufarech, FT 24
  • Julie Zinamon, EW 25
• Fun Fact 2: Courtyard Ventures was started in 2022 by EW alumni!

Career Corner

• Our Leadership Presence & Your Real Story Workshop will give you tools and ways of being that will support you in showing up as the real deal.
• What we are finding is that as you go out into the market and have conversations with people, your ability to communicate your confidence, your curiosity, and your clarity of intention is priceless in cultivating relationships and creating job/career opportunities.

• This workshop is going to walk you through how a recruiter or hiring manager might evaluate a resume, and along the way highlight how you might alter your resume to help them help you.
• We will look at resumes together and evaluate them through this process and understand how to stack the odds in your favor - just to be clear, there is no magic bullet.

• Did you know that within the first 7 seconds of an interview your interviewer has already formed an impression of you?
• Come learn how to get your interview off to a great start by learning to craft and structure your response to the infamous "Tell Me About Yourself" question in this step by step process.
• In this highly interactive workshop, you will:
  • Learn the important elements to include in your story step by step
  • Have opportunities to practice
  • Get feedback and refine
  • You will leave with a first draft of your TMAY!

Program Office Tips and Tidbits