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Here is my experience from those who have meaningfull MBAs (and not just a piece of paper)Make sure you go to a top program, otherwise, most likely you are wasting your money in terms of future employment opportunitiesMake sure you have the FULL support of your management. That’s the only way to get to a top program. If your own managers don’t believe you are MBA material, why should others believe so? This means, that they may also be willing to pay for it!!Check your local executive MBA programs. Typically, you can do them while working (over weekend), they are faster to complete, and require minimal absence from workFor NJ, I would check Columbia and NYU, although Rutgers may have one as well.For example, here is a note from Columbia’s ProgramExecutive MBA Application RequirementsRegardless of the level or financial support from your employer, applicants to EMBA-Friday/Saturday and EMBA-Americas are required to submit a signed sponsorship letter from an authorized representative of your organization, briefly stating the terms of support.Financial sponsorship is not required of your employer, but your organization must agree to: 1) Keep your travel time to a minimum; 2) Completely release you from all job responsibilities on class days.

I decided to vote for Warren after the second or third debate when it became apparent to me that Beto O’Rourke was simply not ready for the big stage, and that the things that made him a great candidate in his Senate race simply did not translate into making him a good Presidential candidate. At that time, I began looking at each candidate’s qualifications, plans, policy positions and character in detail.Choosing a presidential candidate can be a difficult thing. Often we connect with someone emotionally as I did early on with Beto, based on how impressed I was with the way he conducted himself on the campaign trail during his Senate run. But “I like them” is typically a poor answer when asked why you support someone, especially for the highest office in the land. Unfortunately for many people it often comes down to that.I evaluate a candidate on 4 main criteria.Qualifications — What skills, experience, education, or demonstrated knowledge do they have that makes them qualified for the office?Policy Positions — What statements have they made, or how have they voted to indicate what their position is on various political policies, and how does that align with my beliefs on those positions? To help with this, you can go to Candidates on the Issues and look up any US politician, and see a collection of all their public statements and their voting record on a wide array of issues. Looking through each candidate’s On The Issues profile will help you decide who most aligns with your own values.Plans — What have they published about what they plan to do if elected, how detailed and realistic are those plans, and do I agree that what they plan to do should be done?Character — This is a judgment call that we make, and it often does get to your feeling about an individual: What is your assessment of their Character? Do you question their integrity, do they seem to be a person of strong moral conviction? Are they the type of person you believe can be trusted with the power we entrust to the President of the United States? What do we know about them, about their past, that indicates how they will behave if we entrust them with the power of the office of the President of the United States? Do they seem like a hard worker? Do they seem to be in it for themselves, or do they seem to have a genuine desire to serve their nation? What is it that drives them?So. Let’s Look at why I came to the decision to vote for Elizabeth Warren.1.) QualificationsI believe Warren is not only the most qualified candidate running for President in this election, I consider her to be the most qualified candidate I can remember examining since George H. W. Bush.Elizabeth Warren was born in Oklahoma City in 1949, daughter of a Montgomery Ward salesman. After a heart attack led to heavy medical bills and the loss of his sales job, he became a maintenance man for an apartment building. To help with finances her mother found work with Sears, and Warren herself started waiting tables a the age of 13 at her aunt’s restaurant to help with the bills. These early struggles led to her interest later in life in consumer bankruptcy law.A lifelong Republican, she switched party affiliations and became a Democrat in 1996. A High School Debate team star, she was awarded a debate scholarship to George Washington University at the age of 16. She attended with the goal of becoming a teacher, but left school after 2 years to marry her high school sweetheart. After moving with him to Houston Tx, she finished her degree at the University of Houston in speech pathology and audiology and became a teacher. A job transfer led to a move to New Jersey, and the birth of her daughter led her to stay home to take care of Amelia. When her daughter turned 2, Warren enrolled in Rutgers Law School, and earned her J.D. in 1976. She divorced and 2 years later married her current husband.Soon after began a brilliant academic career spanning several decades, and work with prestigious schools such as Rutgers University, The University of Texas, and the University of Michigan. She has been a full professor at the University of Houston, The University of Pennsylvania, and Harvard University.She is one of the foremost experts in the United States on the subject of Consumer Bankruptcy law and has written five and co-authored six books, including several Bankruptcy Law Textbooks which are still used today by major universities around the US.She began government service in 1996, first as an advisor to the National Bankruptcy Review Commission, and worked as a member of the FDIC Advisory Committee on Economic Inclusion. Her advisory work was instrumental in establishing the Consumer Finacial Protection Bureau. In September 2010, Obama named Warren Assistant to the President and Special Advisor to the Secretary of the Treasury on the CFPB to set up the new agency.In 2012, Warren ran for her election to the US Senate in Massachusetts and defeated incumbent Republican Senator Scott Brown. She has served onCommittee on Armed ServicesSubcommittee on AirlandSubcommittee on PersonnelSubcommittee on Strategic ForcesCommittee on Banking, Housing, and Urban AffairsSubcommittee on Economic PolicySubcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Protection (ranking member)Subcommittee on Securities, Insurance, and InvestmentCommittee on Health, Education, Labor and PensionsSubcommittee on Primary Health and Retirement SecuritySpecial Committee on Aging2.) Policy Positions: Elizabeth Warren on the IssuesAfter growing up in a Republican household and spending most of her life as a Republican, Warren’s political views have shifted over her lifetime to become significantly more liberal. She is currently the most progressive candidate in the race aside from Bernie Sanders.She fully supports Medicare for all, and as one of the foremost experts on Consumer Bankruptcy in the US, knows better than anyone that the foremost cause of Consumer Bankruptcy in the US is medical debt. She proposes a 4-year transition away from For-Profit Insurance to a Single-Payer Solution.She describes herself as a “Hard Core Capitalist,” a firm believer in Keynesian Economics, the demand side focused economics philosophy that focuses on using active government policy to manage aggregate demand in order to address or prevent economic recessions.She favors a wealth tax on fortunes over $50 million dollars as a way to address Income inequality and generate enough revenue to manage government programs needed to support lower-income Americans on a path to better education, opportunity, and financial stability.She strongly favors investments in green energy to address the Climate Crisis. She sees green energy as the greatest path to American Job Growth we have. She would require green technology be built by American union jobs. She strongly supports Unions, wants to make it easier for workers to organize, and has been fighting to raise the minimum wage since she began work in Government.She supports Criminal Justice Reform, believes that Marijuana should be legalized at both Federal and state levels, and supports the Marijuana Justice Act to decriminalize pot and expunge the records of non-violent pot offenders.She is highly supportive of avoiding Foreign entanglements, wants a quick and effective exit from the middle east, especially “Get out of Afganistan as quickly as possible,” supports nonintervention in Yemen, and opposes further military expansion.Sen. Warren supports immigration reform, strongly supports the DREAM act, and wants to fix the “man-made” crisis at the border, not “Stir it up.”She does not support open borders, saying as late as July 2019: ‘We need border security but must live by our values.”3.) Plans:Of the things that I find impressive about Sen. Warren, the thing that draws the most attention and the thing most of her supporters cite when asked about why they support her is how complete and fully articulated her plans are. One of her Primary Campaign slogans, though unofficial, is “I have a plan for that.”You can read about all her plans here: Plans | Elizabeth WarrenOr piece by piece, how she means to deal with health care: Health Care Is A Basic Human Right | Elizabeth Warren How EXACTLY she plans to transition to that My First Term Plan for Reducing Health Care Costs in America | Elizabeth WarrenHow she intends to Pay for all the things she wants to do for America Ultra-Millionaire Tax | Elizabeth WarrenHow she intends to deal with Climate Change Tackling the Climate Crisis Head On | Elizabeth WarrenWhat she plans to do about Student Loan Debt, and what she really thinks about it as a foremost expert on consumer Bankruptcy My Plan to Cancel Student Loan Debt on Day One of My Presidency | Elizabeth WarrenHer plans on Immigration reform A Fair and Welcoming Immigration System | Elizabeth WarrenHer plans to reform the Criminal Justice system and get rid of For-Profit Prisons Comprehensive Criminal Justice Reform | Elizabeth WarrenHow to defend and Create American Jobs Defend & Create American Jobs | Elizabeth WarrenHow to address not just unemployment, but stagnant wages Empowering American Workers and Raising Wages | Elizabeth WarrenHow to fight digital disinformation Fighting Digital Disinformation | Elizabeth WarrenHow to end the Opioid Crisis Ending the Opioid Crisis | Elizabeth WarrenHow to get big money out of politics Getting Big Money Out of Politics | Elizabeth WarrenHow to help Family Farmers A New Farm Economy | Elizabeth WarrenHow to Address Problems with Trade A New Approach to Trade | Elizabeth WarrenWhat she plans for America on the World Stage Foreign Policy | Elizabeth WarrenGO to the original link. There you will find a list of all the things she plans to do. I doubt you will leave that page with any questions about what she intends to do, or how she intends to do it.4.) Character.The more I hear Elizabeth Warren Speak, the more I hear how heartfelt and passionate she is about her ideas on how to move America forward in such a way that all Americans have the kind of chance that is America’s promise. I see a woman out working her tail off on the campaign trail, not stopping the selfie line until the last person who wants a picture with her has one. I see someone trying her hardest to keep the conversation on what it is she wants to accomplish it an how she intends to do it.The biggest knock the right has on Warren is the contention that she claimed Native American Heritage when applying for academic jobs to give herself an unfair advantage. Warren grew up in a family with native lore. In other words, she was always told she had native ancestry. A DNA test showed that while it is true that she did have some native ancestry, it was not very much and was in the distant past. Opponents use this to question her integrity and suggest dishonesty. I see it differently. If you say something that is not true, it is only a lie if you are aware it is untrue when you say it. There’s a big difference between pretending Native heritage just to gain an advantage and marking a checkbox on an employment application because you’ve always been told that you fit that definition.An extensive investigation by the Boston Globe concluded that her reported ethnicity played no role in her rise in the academic legal profession. Ethnicity not a factor in Elizabeth Warren’s rise in law - The Boston Globe In 2019, according to the Wikipedia article:Warren responded in part, "I am not a person of color; I am not a citizen of a tribe. Tribal citizenship is very different from ancestry. Tribes, and only tribes, determine tribal citizenship, and I respect that difference." [157]She later reached out to leadership of the Cherokee Nation to apologize "for furthering confusion over issues of tribal sovereignty and citizenship and for any harm her announcement caused". Cherokee Nation executive director of communications Julie Hubbard said that Warren understands "that being a Cherokee Nation tribal citizen is rooted in centuries of culture and laws not through DNA tests." [158]Warren apologized again in August 2019 before the Native American Forum in IowaConsider this. Have you ever heard Donald Trump apologize for anything he was ever wrong about? If you ask me, her ability to reflect, to look at something like this from the past, and not dig in claiming that the DNA test had ‘Vindicated” her, but instead to accept accountability and apologize, I think is a very important indication of strong character.Consider this too. Go back and look at her plans, how carefully thought through and comprehensive they are. If all they have for her at the end of the day is “Pocahontas,” they’re in DEEP, DEEP trouble.In Conclusion:There you have it. That's why I’m supporting Elizabeth Warren for President. It’s why I think you shouldI ask you not to take my word for it.Go out, look, read. Do the same research I’ve laid out here on the other candidates. Apply the same test to Donald Trump, it may be that he’s the candidate that most aligns with your views, and guess what? I don’t agree with you, but THAT’S OK!!!!Just because we don’t agree doesn’t mean we aren’t on the same side.

My Ph.D. journey came to an end on 23rd Jan 2018! To be honest, I didn’t feel anything special about finishing my defense except for being called as ‘Dr. Vikram’ which felt nice. :) In hindsight, I had a feeling of satisfaction when I submitted my thesis (not the defense presentation).I will give you an overview of how the defense presentations are organized in Interdisciplinary Graduate School at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. NTU follows the UK system for Ph.D. defense wherein the panel consists of 2–3 examiners and the members from Thesis Advisory Committee (TAC). The Ph.D. student will give a viva voce presentation for 30–45 minutes and then there will be an open-door Q&A session from the audience (mostly friends and colleagues :P) followed by closed-door Q&A session from the examiners. (Closed door Q&A session is just between the student and the defense panel members; the audience will be asked to leave the room).Speaking of my presentation, I think I did a pretty good job. Even the Q&A session went well without any hiccups. All thanks to the constructive feedback from my peers to whom I had given mock-defense presentation. Given that I had already addressed all the reviewers’ comments prior to my defense, I was confident of handling any technical questions concerning my thesis. In fact, I have read it before somewhere on quora/LinkedIn (can’t remember) that a failed defense reflects poorly on the Ph.D. advisor more than the student. So, when a Ph.D. defense is scheduled, it’s pretty much a guarantee that it will be successful. I must thank my Ph.D. advisors who were always helpful and made my Ph.D. journey to be quite smooth.Unfortunately, I don’t have many pics! Yet, like any millenial, I didn’t fall behind in posting on facebook and whatsapp :P What followed was a lot of congratulatory messages and FB ‘likes’ which felt nice only for a day. Then it’s just ‘meh’.Nevertheless, once the Ph.D. defense was over, I was waiting for the letter confirming the ‘fulfillment of requirements of Ph.D.’ from my grad school as it was required by my employer (Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences) to send the DS19 form for the US visa application. Within a day, my grad school sent me the letter which I immediately forwarded to the RBHS office. That was a great feeling. :) Now I am waiting for my J1 visa to be approved. Fingers crossed!