My time as an MBA student at the Sauder School of Business was quite simply the worst experience of my life. I haven't recovered, doubt I ever will. Despite supposedly being one of the top students in the program and always going out of my way to help my MBA classmates, some of them decided to decieve me, to use me, to deliberately, callously and repeatedly hurt me. And when I complained or begged them to stop, I was ignored or treated worse, on March 17th 2005 I was completely broken.
It is still the official position of the Sauder School of Business and the University of British Columbia that I must be lying. I continue to maintain that I always told the truth. I was only ever trying to help someone who repeatedly said they were my friend. I attempted to provide corroberating evidence as did at least one or two others, but it had already been decieded by Anne DeWolfe before I met with her, that it was necessary for me to be threatened and punished. She also claimed I wouldn't be "negatively affected" by the solution, or the things people said or did, or that I was forced to do, that I could continue to enjoy and benefit from the MBA program...
My classmates even those who insisted they were my friends, now ignore me or merely repeat that "nothing can be done" which has always equaled "just suffer" in my mind. Few offered little more than cliches, now most simply pretend I don't exist, that I didn't suffer, that everything for everyone in our class is great, just like in the glossy MBA program brochures. Since graduating I've written far too much, people still refuse to believe me. They just don't care. Now I stay away from my former classmates and I asked them to stay away from me. They've caused me far too many anxiety attacks, pain, and suffering. They just haven't proven worth knowing, to put it in the appropriate terminology, I have realized a negative return on my investment of time and effort in the Sauder MBA program. The NPV is negative, my whole Sauder MBA experience was overwhelmingly, painfully, soul-scaringly negative.
All my Sauder MBA classmates had to ever do was believe me and treat me kind, apparently that was too much to ask.
This page does well for terms like "Sauder MBA" or "UBC MBA" or "Sauder MBA blog" in the search engines and people from all over the world presumeably read it. I've spent many years since I completed my MBA unemployed, unemployable. This is as damning evidence as anyone could provide on the quality and value of a Sauder MBA. Of all the thousands of words I've written about being a Sauder MBA student, perhaps the most pertinant to would-be Sauder MBAs is this one.
Years after officially graduating I was still unemployed, heavily in debt, and suffering "negative effects"...