Are there any other 2021 grads who feel super let down about their MBA experience due to the global panini? I ended up taking a safety job in consulting because of it and I’m miserable. I have asthma and couldn’t take the risk to build my network in-person when things were peak awful, but now I feel like I missed out on something critical

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