Snapshots from Hell

It has been called a union card for yuppies. It's a ticket to a six-figure salary and the inside track to wealth and power. It is an MBA from a university like Stanford. And, in this hilarious, sobering, and thought-provoking book by one recent Stanford Business School graduate, you can find how to get it — if you dare.

As his thirtieth birthday loomed and his friends began to acquire such grown-up possessions as homes and European cars, presidential speechwriter Peter Robinson decided to leave the White House and embark on a more lucrative career path. Nothing could have prepared him for business school. From professors who were out of touch to textbooks that didn't speak English, from a fascinating cast of fellow go-getters to the mad scramble for that first great job offer, Peter Robinson chronicles the agony and some ecstasy — in a book that does for business school what Scott Turow's One L did for Harvard Law.

• Prologue: Farewell to the Chief
• Fall Term: Inferno
• ONE: Math Camp
• TWO: Orientation: Woe Is Me in a Hot Tub
• THREE: Inside the Classroom: Snapshots from Hell
• FOUR: Student Life: More Snapshots from Hell
• FIVE: Midterms: The Horror
• SIX: The Stockholm Syndrome
• SEVEN: Finals: The Peasants Are revolting
• EIGHT: Home for Christmas
• Winter Term: Inferno, Cont'd
• NINE: Witer Term Overture: It's Cold and It's Damp
• TEN: Number Blind
• ELEVEN: Thermoclines
• TWELVE: This Institution Is in Deep Frijoles
• THIRTEEN: Summer Job Interviews: Buddy, Can You Spare Ten Grand?
• FOURTEEN: Upswing
• FIFTEEN: The Frijoles Hit the Fan
• Spring Term: Purgatorio
• SIXTEEN: Spring Term Overture: Sing Like a Cuckoo
• SEVENTEEN: Managing Strategic Management: Starve Problems, Feed Opportunities
• EIGHTEEN: Cold-Called
• NINETEEN: The Intellectual Life of the Baby Wolverine
• TWENTY: Race and Gender
• TWENTY-ONE: Club Stanford
• TWENTY-TWO: We're All Here to Help the Poor
• Epilogue: Paradiso (Sort Of)

A very funny book about the authors first year at Stanford. It should have covered year two as well.