Anyone not do or get heavily involved with clubs during their MBA?if so, why not and what you do instead?

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Clubs are a lot more work than we think haha. The number of meetings kill our schedules imo.

I'm on a student fund and school year internship with a somewhat reputable company, both of which look much better on my resume and contribute more towards my professional growth and opportunities. When I have more time next year, I hope to participate in more case competitions, use my last year to talk to as many speakers and alumni in cool careers as possible, take more classes across departments and do them more seriously, finish Wall Street Prep, write a case, participate in clubs' consulting projects, exercise and learn new sports, pursue my own learning and hobbies through independent reading and school music lessons, participating in an array of workshops ranging from tech to ESG, or get a pet and stare at the clouds lol. I had a great social life before the MBA at the expense of my professional development, so I'm making up for that.

The functional experience that clubs look for, like programming, I already had prior to my MBA and got bored of. The amount of time and work that certain clubs take yield to little returns for me, so I ended up quitting many clubs and dropping out of conference planning haha. I'd rather pursue certain opportunities that develop my hard and soft skillsets that I didn't develop before, like business acumen and quant.

Friends are working on their own ventures.

Choose what you'd like to index on, and that's how you'll determine the value of a club. :)

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Thank you this is really helpful / I run into the issue of pursuing too many things that end up producing low value or burning me out so I’m trying to be more strategic ago about my time but don’t want to be devoid of good social networking and leadership opportunities that clubs seem to offer

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