Archive for January, 2008
Saturday, January 19th, 2008
except, of course, I probably will. First week of classes over! And I think some of the best lectures that I’ve had so far. For anyone who’s considering coming to the Oxford MBA program, take the Macro Econ class with Oren Sussman. Also… well, just about everything I’m taking. I’m pretty excited about all the [...]
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Sunday, January 13th, 2008
Or close the wall up with our International dead. In rest there’s nothing so becomes a man As modest reading and travel: But when the blast of school blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger; Open the Lib’ries, summon up the blood, Disguise fair nature with coffee fueled rage; That lend [...]
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Tuesday, January 8th, 2008
My first term at Oxford is over. It consisted of six core subjects: Finance I, Strategy I, Managerial Economics, Decision Science (Statistics), Developing Effective Managers (Organisational Behaviour), and Financial Reporting (Accounting). There were a few amazing lecturers, a few average ones, and a couple of really, unconscionably bad ones. I’ve shared my thoughts on the [...]
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Sunday, January 6th, 2008
Venice Venice is a beautiful town. We took the train in and then the vaporetto around to the Piazza San Marco spent about 8 hours there, walking and talking and exploring. It’s an odd place. Beautiful. Part of the beauty is in the decrepitness, and perhaps in the fact that it’s dying, sinking into the [...]
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