MT Week 1

Phew.... It cruised away with such a speed that it ended before realizing.

On Monday the lectures started. I must tell you the professors at Oxford are exceptional. Highly qualified, authorities in their subject, very smart and still considerate and engaging. Their knowledge of subject does not intimidate you but it just sneaks in your brain along with the jokes. The prof of Financial accounting explained everything in the context of opening a business of lemonade. And he literally brought lemons, sugar and glasses in the class to make the stuff easier to understand (for those psychos who require irrelevant details: Water was already there). Anyone would think what a comedian, looks like he is teaching a kindergarten. And this guy is working with Prince Charles on Financial Reporting. The professor of Decision Science is also damn smart and have many achievements in life. But his lecture was like a play of Othello or any other Shakespeare play. He was moving like a mime actor, making faces rolling eyes cursing the previous professor who didn’t clean the board and telling student not to worry if they don’t understand as next week there will be completely new topic and if they don’t understand it either, completely new topic for the week next to that. He must have worked on his voice. His voice and ups and downs and skills to speak was like a top class actor. And it won’t hurt to mention briefly about the new sensation in the class. Sorry guys, he is a guy. The prof of Finance is German. And he is so damn smart and cute (almost like Roger Moor with the same 007 style) that Gents in class find it difficult to get a seat in first two rows.

I never learned so much more in a week. I read almost 300 pages (about 30 hours), attended lectures of 18 hours, seminars of 25 hours, meetings of 10 hours, admin stuff of 10 hours, presentations of 10 hours, socializing of 10 hours and partying of 10 hours, Matriculation 5 hours. 128 hours work. Say 20 hours for eating commuting and other. That means 40 hours of sleep = less than 6 hours a day......
This is amazing. And this is what I want... I like it. Have an assignment due on Wednesday. But almost done. So no big worries for coming week.

You must have got my Matriculation mail. Apart from that the event of the week was formal dinner at Jesus on Monday. It was a typical Harry Potter type dinner. I used 5 dishes, 3 bows. More than dozen knives and forks and 5 glasses for a single dinner. Typical British formal dinner. I enjoyed it but have to stay alert all the time for not spilling the food or dropping anything from the excessively crowded table. It was a seven course dinner. Welcome drinks, soup, starters, main course, dessert, fruits and port. Too bad I am not getting time everyday to attend formal dinner at college. Anyways. Here are some snaps of the same. These are taken from mobile camera. So forgive the clarity (of lack of it).

Jesus college formal Dinner

Now I have to read a case that will be discussed in the class tomorrow. So I am making this mail short.