Just a few minutes ago our class received an email instructing us to check our "pigeonholes" (do I love the Brit lingo or what?) - contained therein, according to this email, would be our class portraits, a new calendar, and... drum roll please... CHOCOLATE! To welcome us to the school!
Yesssssssssssss! I love being an MBA student! Free chocolate!
A friend of mine went up to grab our chocolate while I watched our laptops, and came back a few minutes later with... nothing. For me, that is. She got her chocolate, and her pictures, and her new calendar. But nothing for me.
Is there anything more devastating than being promised free chocolate in the middle of a sleepy afternoon and then NOT GETTING IT IN YOUR PIGEONHOLE?!
I think the dude in the pigeonhole beneath mine took my stuff by accident. So I emailed him. And have not yet heard back. And now I am obsessively checking my email every 30 seconds to see if he has given me the green light to go take his chocolate. Which I might do anyway.
Good thing I'll have a Guinness in my hand in about 20 minutes (to celebrate our Beer Game victory). Otherwise there would really be trouble.
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Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Beer Game Victory!
Well well well. Maybe I will survive this MBA course after all. Allow me to chronologize:
7:45AM. My alarm goes off and I feel like I'd been hit by a bus. So tired. Just... so tired.
8:20AM. I manage to get out the door and into the dining hall for a filling breakfast. Tried not to think about the nutritional value (or lack thereof).
8:45AM. Coffee in hand, I set out to find the Beer Game locale - a vast, terrifyingly generic exam hall that gives me the heebie jeebies.
9:00AM. We are assembled into ten groups of eight, seated around rectangular tables. On top of the tables lie white tarps on which is a visual representation of a beer supply chain. The teaching assistants (ubernerdy Economics PhD students) begin to explain the game to us.
9:01AM. I am mildly panicking. We each have a partner in this game, in addition to working together as a team. My partner is male, older, and seems super smart. I am convinced I am never going to be able to learn how to play the game, I will be dead weight for the team, and my partner will hate me.
9:15ish AM. The game begins... and, lo and behold, I get it! I really get it! My partner and I are strategizing and the team is working together and I am contributing just as much as anyone and I think I even grasp the supply chain concept a little better than some of my teammates!
10:15ish AM. Still going strong! Feeling fabulous! Our team is doing well! (I think.) And, miracle of miracles, I am having FUN!
11:00ish AM. Game ends. But but but! We were just getting going! Nope, sorry, time to compare results and see whose supply chain accrued the least cost.
And the winner is... US! Woohoo! I can't even believe it. This is the nerdiest honor I have ever received. I am psyched.
Best of all, we won 75 quid! Each of us had to put in a pound to play the game, and the winning team got the pot! Apparently the other stream's victors will donate their winnings to the Business School Club. But not us. Per my suggestion to my teammates, we're going to the local pub for Guinness and chips before our evening lecture tomorrow. The lecture is being given by a finance big wig, and is entitled, "Financial Crisis: Past, Present, and Lessons for the Future." Yes, we maybe MBA students during the beginning of a Second Great Depression, but we still know how to par-tay!
7:45AM. My alarm goes off and I feel like I'd been hit by a bus. So tired. Just... so tired.
8:20AM. I manage to get out the door and into the dining hall for a filling breakfast. Tried not to think about the nutritional value (or lack thereof).
8:45AM. Coffee in hand, I set out to find the Beer Game locale - a vast, terrifyingly generic exam hall that gives me the heebie jeebies.
9:00AM. We are assembled into ten groups of eight, seated around rectangular tables. On top of the tables lie white tarps on which is a visual representation of a beer supply chain. The teaching assistants (ubernerdy Economics PhD students) begin to explain the game to us.
9:01AM. I am mildly panicking. We each have a partner in this game, in addition to working together as a team. My partner is male, older, and seems super smart. I am convinced I am never going to be able to learn how to play the game, I will be dead weight for the team, and my partner will hate me.
9:15ish AM. The game begins... and, lo and behold, I get it! I really get it! My partner and I are strategizing and the team is working together and I am contributing just as much as anyone and I think I even grasp the supply chain concept a little better than some of my teammates!
10:15ish AM. Still going strong! Feeling fabulous! Our team is doing well! (I think.) And, miracle of miracles, I am having FUN!
11:00ish AM. Game ends. But but but! We were just getting going! Nope, sorry, time to compare results and see whose supply chain accrued the least cost.
And the winner is... US! Woohoo! I can't even believe it. This is the nerdiest honor I have ever received. I am psyched.
Best of all, we won 75 quid! Each of us had to put in a pound to play the game, and the winning team got the pot! Apparently the other stream's victors will donate their winnings to the Business School Club. But not us. Per my suggestion to my teammates, we're going to the local pub for Guinness and chips before our evening lecture tomorrow. The lecture is being given by a finance big wig, and is entitled, "Financial Crisis: Past, Present, and Lessons for the Future." Yes, we maybe MBA students during the beginning of a Second Great Depression, but we still know how to par-tay!
Friday, September 26, 2008
Economist Intelligence Unit 2008 MBA Rankings Released
Phew! That subject line is a mouthful!
But this is big news for prospective MBA students everywhere... and also for all the brand spankin' new MBA students who are currently pondering whether they made the right choice (ahem, not that any of us are doing that!). The Economist Intelligence Unit released its 2008 MBA rankings today, and you can find them here.
Rounding out the top ten overall ranked programs are the following:
1. IMD - International Institute for Management Development, Switzerland
2. IESE Business School - University of Navarra, Spain
3. University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, USA
4. Stanford Graduate School of Business, USA
5. Dartmouth College - Tuck School of Business, USA
6. University of California at Berkeley - Haas School of Business, USA
7. University of Cambridge - Judge Business School, UK... which, I should probably mention, is where I am attending. It's about time I declared this information to the blogosphere! I am so proud of the ranking, but more proud still of getting accepted into this wonderful program. Of course, check back with me when I'm struggling through Business Statistics and Corporate Finance and see how wonderful I think it is... but in all seriousness, this program has been amazing thus far and I am thrilled that JBS is regarded so highly by this ranking.
8. New York University - Leonard N. Stern School of Business, USA
9. London Business School, UK
10. IE Business School, Spain
It is important to note that no ranking is the be all and end all. There are various MBA rankings and each offers a different perspective. The most important thing, in digesting rankings and choosing from among all the great programs out there, is to focus on the fit. Prospective students, focus on finding the program with which you are, as I would say in my non-business life, MFEO. Just as in any important life relationship, you and your program should be destined for each other, Made For Each Other, a perfect fit.
Just like me and Judge.
But this is big news for prospective MBA students everywhere... and also for all the brand spankin' new MBA students who are currently pondering whether they made the right choice (ahem, not that any of us are doing that!). The Economist Intelligence Unit released its 2008 MBA rankings today, and you can find them here.
Rounding out the top ten overall ranked programs are the following:
1. IMD - International Institute for Management Development, Switzerland
2. IESE Business School - University of Navarra, Spain
3. University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, USA
4. Stanford Graduate School of Business, USA
5. Dartmouth College - Tuck School of Business, USA
6. University of California at Berkeley - Haas School of Business, USA
7. University of Cambridge - Judge Business School, UK... which, I should probably mention, is where I am attending. It's about time I declared this information to the blogosphere! I am so proud of the ranking, but more proud still of getting accepted into this wonderful program. Of course, check back with me when I'm struggling through Business Statistics and Corporate Finance and see how wonderful I think it is... but in all seriousness, this program has been amazing thus far and I am thrilled that JBS is regarded so highly by this ranking.
8. New York University - Leonard N. Stern School of Business, USA
9. London Business School, UK
10. IE Business School, Spain
It is important to note that no ranking is the be all and end all. There are various MBA rankings and each offers a different perspective. The most important thing, in digesting rankings and choosing from among all the great programs out there, is to focus on the fit. Prospective students, focus on finding the program with which you are, as I would say in my non-business life, MFEO. Just as in any important life relationship, you and your program should be destined for each other, Made For Each Other, a perfect fit.
Just like me and Judge.
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