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 […]

I have been reliably informed that I’m waaaaaaaay past due on my blog updates. So.
Leonard Cohen
OK, first of all, I got to see Leonard Cohen, because the giant investment engine I’m working for has a box at the O2.
And there was much rejoicing. Seriously. The man is so humble it’s humbling. And I don’t humble […]

I have been reliably informed that I’m waaaaaaaay past due on my blog updates. So.
Leonard Cohen
OK, first of all, I got to see Leonard Cohen, because the giant investment engine I’m working for has a box at the O2.
And there was much rejoicing. Seriously. The man is so humble it’s humbling. And I don’t humble […]

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 […]

After the Skoll Forum, my jet-set life continued. Blew over to Blenheim where we saw lots of nice furniture and Churchill-y stuff. I’d suggest just the grounds, though– touring through the house was a bit much… unless lots of nice stuff in big ostentatious rooms is your thing. Also saw lots of photos of Churchill. […]

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 […]

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 […]