--- title: Default HubSpot Blog | MIT Sloan description: MIT Sloan | --- # Default HubSpot Blog ## [How B-School is Like Marriage](https://blog-bcantwell.hs-sites.com/bid/18394/how-b-school-is-like-marriage) Posted by [Brian Cantwell](https://blog-bcantwell.hs-sites.com/author/brian-cantwell) Jul 21, 2009 3:51:00 PM - [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) [![](https://blog-bcantwell.hs-sites.com/hs-fs/file-25658632-jpg/images/3387337867_14fbf972d4_m.jpg) ](https://blog-bcantwell.hs-sites.com/bid/18394/how-b-school-is-like-marriage) With my wedding coming up this weekend, I've got marriage on the brain. I'm designing ceremony programs in my sleep. My feet start spontaneously waltzing on my walk to work. I see seating charts in my Excel spreadsheets. Salesforce.com is looking suspiciously like my Crate & Barrel registry. Basically, I'm finding parallels with marriage in everything I'm doing, so it seems only natural to draw some connections between my upcoming nuptials and another huge committment in my life, b-school.  [Read More](https://blog-bcantwell.hs-sites.com/bid/18394/how-b-school-is-like-marriage) Topics: [marriage](https://blog-bcantwell.hs-sites.com/topic/marriage), [MIT Sloan](https://blog-bcantwell.hs-sites.com/topic/mit-sloan), [b-school](https://blog-bcantwell.hs-sites.com/topic/b-school), [wedding](https://blog-bcantwell.hs-sites.com/topic/wedding) ## [Why I Use Twitter (And You Should Too!)](https://blog-bcantwell.hs-sites.com/bid/15649/why-i-use-twitter-and-you-should-too) Posted by [Brian Cantwell](https://blog-bcantwell.hs-sites.com/author/brian-cantwell) Jun 17, 2009 11:44:00 AM - [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) [![](https://blog-bcantwell.hs-sites.com/hs-fs/file-25659156-jpg/images/information_overload_medium.jpg) ](https://blog-bcantwell.hs-sites.com/bid/15649/why-i-use-twitter-and-you-should-too) Yesterday my MIT Sloan classmate [@amandapey](http://twitter.com/amandapey) (check out [her b-school blog](http://savemefrombschool.com/)) tweeted about a [study that compared click-through rates](http://evbart.com/2009/06/facebook-vs-twitter-round-two-with-url-shorteners-as-the-judge/) on links posted to Twitter and links posted to Facebook. Twitter blew Facebook away with nearly double the click-throughs, despite having 7x smaller test audience. That got me thinking about why [I use Twitter](http://twitter.com/cantwell) and what I find so useful about it. [Read More](https://blog-bcantwell.hs-sites.com/bid/15649/why-i-use-twitter-and-you-should-too) Topics: [twitter](https://blog-bcantwell.hs-sites.com/topic/twitter), [MIT Sloan](https://blog-bcantwell.hs-sites.com/topic/mit-sloan), [MBA](https://blog-bcantwell.hs-sites.com/topic/mba), [b-school](https://blog-bcantwell.hs-sites.com/topic/b-school), [#whytwitter](https://blog-bcantwell.hs-sites.com/topic/whytwitter) ## [The MBA Halfway Point - Looking Back](https://blog-bcantwell.hs-sites.com/bid/13481/the-mba-halfway-point-looking-back) Posted by [Brian Cantwell](https://blog-bcantwell.hs-sites.com/author/brian-cantwell) Jun 5, 2009 4:23:00 PM - [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) With the completion of exams and the start of my summer internship, the time has come to officially close the books on MIT Sloan MBA Year 1. The year was exhausting, exhilarating, and full of surprises. For all you future MBAs out there, here at the things I wish I had known a year ago. 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