Acting and Business
Oriana Torres: “Hobbies during Graduate School” seems to be an oxymoron.At Grad School time is indeed extremely limited, especially during your first year.Yet finding spaces to live your passions is always possible, if you proactively look “behind the walls of Olin Hall” and if you are open to mix and mingle with different groups of the Babson Community such as the undergrads.
I enjoy acting.I used to practice it until I the start of my adolescence and I am confident to say that acting has taught me some of the most powerful lessons I use in business life!During my first MBA semester I had to goal to go back to acting and after contacting the Sorenson Theater I managed to get into a casting for a play directed by Professor Beth Wynstra.
And yes, I was the only graduate student there.And yes, I believe at the beginning all undergraduate students might have wondered why a grad student would choose to do that!Well, here are the reasons:
- 代理让你妥协：虽然成功的基础作用之一是“妥协自己的角色”，意为住在性格，体现您所代表的人的各个方面。有分心或羞耻没有空间。在企业，你需要同样的，当你是领导，你有一个目标，你遵守它，直到结束。
- 演戏是用于公共演讲的自然训练：如果你有孩子，请不要犹豫，建议影院的做法。代理是公开演讲和说服乐趣培训。在商业伟大的领导者是那些谁可以在观众面前说话无畏，懂得需要和是真正的讲故事的时候凑合。
- 代理开发的纪律：准备一出戏是一个严重的过程中，甚至在业余水平。您需要同意，承诺和交付到排练进度，再加上投入更多的时间用于个人准备。
I would encourage every grad student to explore options through the Sorenson Theater if any sort of art is your passion.Creativity is one of the most valuable assets of an entrepreneur and our society is demanding more and more “right brainers” who can tackle conventional problems in unconventional ways.Art is a shortcut to become that type of leader.
Images of “The Laramie Project” Production which Oriana was a part of.
Oriana Torres, Babson MBA Class of 2013