HT Week 1

Hello All,

Week
So this week I rearranged my definition of being busy. Even though this was fairly slow week with only few events. But busier than most of the weeks in last term. And it is destined to get only worse. Coming week we have couple of companies coming for presentations, seminars from about 3-4 very prominent CEO / COO, almost 7-8 group meetings, couple of assignments apart from regular lectures and stuff. Because of this, this Hilary term is notoriously know as HELL-ari amongst MBAs. Anyways. This week there was only one remarkable event.

SAID business school naming ceremony.
It was completion of 10 years of naming this school as SAID business school after Mr. Waffic Said donated about 10 million GBP for the building. Many big names had come for the event and four professors gave updates on their research during the program. Mr. SAID said how the dean and the students and good and dean said how Mr. SAID is good and all that kind of stuff. For the drinks many students took photograph with said. I obviously was not interested (as I am becoming anti-human (pronounce as antie-human) day by day). So I volunteered taking the snaps. There was a rumour that SAID’s unmarried girl has come too... I did some R n D and shown some interest in that particular area but alas.... no luck.... looks like have to pay my bank loan by myself....

Friday pre and post happy hour.
I am working in four different groups this term. Three of them are chosen by students while one is assigned by the college for two compulsory subjects. It is getting very difficult to co-ordinate group meetings considering different times available to different people in different groups. Our college-chosen group met on Friday and after about 2 hours of rigorous and tense discussion we came to the conclusion that we have to start working from this week for the assignments due in week 4. That means reading the week 2,3 and 4 for two subjects over the week end. Believe me guys this is equal to TS (or similar subject that Fadtare (or similar named teacher) taught us in Third year second sem). We have a feminist, anti-fun (antie-fun) woman in group who insisted on labouring over the week end reading stuff. So I was never this happy to attend Friday happy hour after the meeting.

Week end
The above mentioned factors made most of my Saturday and Sunday with upper side of my body in the book and rear on chair. And it was rainy so no rugby as well. So instead used both evenings for outing. On Saturday went to ‘Oxford Ghost Tour’ (see the snaps attached). In this tour the guild dressed scary (supposedly) would walk you around the historic and dark sites in Oxford to tell the stories of ghosts there. Thought the concept and formation was good the guys was using some childish magic tricks that irritated me and made us leave without completing the trip.





On Sunday evening watched the movie “Charlie Wilson’s war’. No comments on that.

Due to time crunch this is short and lacks many fine details that I would have liked to add. But MBA is all about being superficial without going into details. And I know most of you don’t bother to read it completely. So this is it.