and in more ways than one!
Sorry for the long and slowness on the update. Since coming to London I’ve had…

Long hours
Long commute
Limited Internet access at work (it’s an investment bank…)
Super-limited Internet access at “home” (Imagine a 64K ISDN line shared by a 100 unit apartment building with DNS servers powered by hamsters on wheels. The […]

Well, things are winding up as they wind down. One more week of classes, which includes four group projects (one about 80% done, the other three haven’t even been started) and three individual projects. I suppose I know what I’m doing over the rest of this weekend.
Had a job interview, it went fairly well, though […]

Trinity term is now in full swing (we’re in the fourth of eight weeks!) and it’s taking its toll on all of us. Everyone has said so far that this is where it lightens up– I must disagree. This term’s hit like a ton of bricks. There’s assignment after assignment and it never seems to […]

Finished exams which went, I think, fairly well. Or decently at least. Another round of monkey suits and exams, this time in the big posh Exams Schools. I’d been sick for a couple of weeks and the NHS doctors have really let me down so far. Honey and lemon, when you’ve been coughing up yellow […]

I have today finished my Macroeconomics and Technology/Innovation strategy work– except for the TIS exam. I think we did a pretty good job with the analysis of Social Lending (Zopa, Prosper) as an emerging market. It’s a fascinating world which, like any innovation, could be world-changing and could fade away. According to the academic thinking, […]

Hilary term, aside from exams and about 25,000 words of writing, is almost over. It’s flown by in an incredibly short amount of time, filling us all with hope, fear, and god knows what else.
It’s been really good.
Saw Underworld with Ed and Jane last week, and took no pictures, but did get to feel all […]

Man, oh, man, what a week.
First, we left our potato economy in Macroeconomics and invented money.
See, to understand a few things, it was easier if we had a single market, a single unit of currency, and a single product of production: Potatoes. Yes, folks, I took out $80,000 in loans to study potatoes. One of […]

Michaelmas (first term) grades finally came out.
Remember, with these numbers, that grades are different here than in the US. A 50 is a pass, a 60 is a “strong pass”, and a 70 is a “distinction”.

Decision Science: 64
Developing Effective Managers: 63
Finance 1: 63
Financial Reporting: 62
Managerial Economics: 59
Strategy 1: 63

What’s good about these? I did broadly […]

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 classes […]

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 the pens a terrible aspect;
Let pry through […]