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Goodbye from the Graduating Oppy Board Members

With graduation next week, we can’t help but be a bit nostalgic about our time at Stern and The Oppy. Half of us were the re-founding members of The Stern Opportunity in early 2020, a whole month before the start of the pandemic. Since then, we have grown the newspaper to what it is today. Stern boasts the second oldest MBA newspaper in the United States, just behind HBS, and it was a pleasure being part of that legacy. In a final goodbye, we share a little bit of our experience. 

Editor-in-Chief: Deirdre Keane

I look back at these two years as EiC and regret nothing.…

Spring Fling: Masquerade

“We switched our facemasks for glamor masks.” This was the motto on Saturday as SGOV hosted “Spring Fling: Masquerade” at the Capitale on Bowery.

I woke up Saturday morning and panic raced through my mind as I saw the unrelenting rain storm. There were still a thousand other tasks I had to complete before the event, and the weather just did not want to cooperate with us, rain pouring all morning. There were doubts and questions constantly popping up in my mind. How do we get nearly 500 pounds of Mondelez candy out of my apartment in Stuytown and to the venue?…

Stern Follies: A Backstage View

By Penny Burgess

At 7:20pm on Friday, May 6th, I was standing backstage right (when you’re facing the stage, that’s the front left corner, for all you non-theater kids!) at the Skirball Theater. Stern Superlatives were running on the screen on loop, awarding Sternies with titles like “Most Likely to Have a 20 Year Plan” and “Most Likely to Buy Shots for Everyone After the Show.” I was standing right on the edge of backstage, so I couldn’t see the audience, but I could hear the laughs and cheers as the seats filled.

At one point, Alexa Mauro, co-President of Stern Follies, came to join me, and I mentioned how excited I was to hear laughs for something that I had created.…

How do you Recruit On-Campus When You Aren’t Allowed On-Campus?

By Scott Cairns

I know the experience NYU WANTS for you when they advertise “On-Campus” Recruiting: Company sponsored coffee chats, networking events at the Wasserman Center, and little bowls of Lifesavers on every available surface (a surely sizeable budget line item that was likely easily cut during the COVID-times). In fact, my first job out of undergraduate as a member of the NYU CAS Class of 2015 was a result of exactly this experience. Knowing I wanted just such a career pivot and that NYU had the infrastructure to make it happen was a small…ok, I concede a very large part of why I chose to return to Stern nearly five years later in the Spring of 2020.…

SWIB Conference Round Up: Macro Forces and Micro Actions Expanding the Definition of Success

The Stern Women in Business Club held its annual conference on April 12, 2022, with the theme “Macro Forces and Micro Actions Expanding the Definition of Success.” The keynote speaker was Cynthia K Sakia, the co-founder of Vita Fede and Evolvetogether. The first panel, “Business, Society and Self” featured Pooja Bavishi, founder and CEO of Malai and Kit Krugman, Managing Director at co:collective and board member at WIN (Women in Innovation), discussing the macro forces that directly and indirectly impact our ability to succeed. The second panel, “What does it mean to ‘Have It All’” featured Rha Goddess, founder and CEO at Move the Crowd and Alisa Viti, menstrual and fertility health researcher and founder of FLO Living.…

Dear Oppy: May 2022

We are proud to continue our agony advice column, Dear Oppy: B-School Advice for the Everyday Sternie – “real questions, terrible advice.”

The Oppy can be quite Stern at times but is here to answer the queries and qualms of all MBA students so send them his/her/their way at oppy@stern.nyu.edu or fill this out, anonymously.

Dear Oppy,

I just finished my degree and spent my entire time at Stern writing and editing for The Oppy instead of doing, you know, homework. What do I do now?

Sincerely,

Board Member

Dear Board Member,

F*ck if I know, man.

Sincerely,

Oppy

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