Not much to say this week, still miss to write about what has happened the last two weeks. Why, you ask? Well, go check the content of the blog called “About the miracle of …”, the passage referring to the workload of the MBA. I was looking forward to getting the real MBA started…and now I know that it has. But see for yourself, a brief wrap up of last weeks schedule:
Monday:
6.30am: Get up and get the day started
7.30am: Arrive at ESADE and prepare the day
8am: Attend class “Applied Quantitative Modeling” (AQM)
10am: Leave class AQM to attend a one-on-one coaching session
12pm: Return from Coaching Session to class AQM
12.30pm: Lunch time
1pm: Work on Spanish homework
2pm: Attend class “The Global Context Of Management”
3.30pm: Have coffee break while having discussion with other Exec. Member of ESADE Consulting Club (have been elected into the council to be responsible for the marketing activities of the Club for the next year)
4pm: Attend Spanish class
6.30pm: Have coffee break and prepare for group meeting
7pm: Group meeting to work on Economics and Marketing project
10pm: Leave ESADE towards home with a stop by at Burger King for an evening snack
11pm: Have some conversation with my Spanish speaking flatmates and continue working on individual and groups assignments
2am: Go to bed
Tuesday:
7am: Get up and get the day started
8am: Arrive at ESADE and prepare the day
9am: Attend class “Financial Statement Management”
12.30pm: Lunch
1.30pm: Work on Spanish homework
2pm: Attend class “Organizational Behavior”
3.30pm: Leave ESADE to see the doctor in order to have my injury checked
(Quick summary: Mid September, I went up the stairs at a metro station, slipped and crashed with my shin directly on the edge of the stair. The shin was swollen as thick as a tennis ball and left a wound open. I went to a doctor a week later and he gave me some salves to disinfect the wounded part, letting me know that the healing process might take some 2-3 weeks. Now, after more than 5 weeks, it still hurt and I was afraid that the wound had been infected, risking of having a sepsis. Luckily, the doctor assigned me a good health and told me that nothing was going on with the shin. He told me that it might continue to hurt for another 2-3 weeks for I really must have squashed the muscle. But nothing serious can happen now onwards. What a relief!)
4.30pm: Stop by a costume shop in order to buy a costume for the upcoming ESADE Halloween party on Friday (I hate disguising, that’s why I only bought an Elvis wig and some glasses.)
5pm: Attend the rest of the Spanish class
6.30pm: Have coffee break and prepare for group meeting
7pm: Group meeting to work on the 15-minutes presentation due every Wednesday in the Marketing project (have new product developed and introduced into the market at the end of the first year, in my case, a “Blockbuster” Yoghurt)
10.30pm: Leave ESADE towards home, having take-away Sushi
11.30pm: Continue working on individual and groups assignments
3am: Go to bed
Wednesday:
7am: Get up and get the day started
8am: Arrive at ESADE and prepare the day
9am: Attend class “Marketing I” and present weekly results of project to class
12.30pm: Lunch
1.30pm: Work on Spanish homework
2pm: Attend class “Economics”
3.30pm: Have coffee break and shortly meet with group
4pm: Attend Spanish class
6.30pm: Have coffee break
7pm: Work individually on assignments and prepare for ESADE Consulting Club executive meeting
8pm: Meet with other members of the Exec. Committee of ESADE Consulting Club
9pm: Wrap up Exec. Meeting Consulting Club
9.30pm: Leave ESADE towards home, having all you can eat sushi
11pm: Continue working on individual and groups assignments
2am: Go to bed
Thursday:
9am: Get up and get the day started and set the clothes washer to be finished at 9 pm
10am: Arrive at ESADE, prepare the day and continue work on individual assignments
12pm: Attend class “The Global Context Of Management”
1.30pm: Lunch
2pm: Attend Investment Banking seminar
6pm: Have coffee break
6.30pm: Work individually on assignments
9pm: Leave ESADE towards home with a stop at Pans&Company
10pm: Do the laundry (put the wet one on the clothes horse and get the one from last week ironed
11pm: Have some talks with my Spanish speaking flatmates and continue working on individual and groups assignments
2am: Go to bed
Friday:
6.30am: Get up and get the day started
7.30am: Arrive at ESADE and prepare the day
8am: Attend class “Managerial Accounting”
12.30pm: Attend meeting of the Executive members of ESADE Consulting Club during lunchtime
2pm: Skip regular Consulting Club meeting in order to attend “Crack the Case” seminar held by former Roland Berger employee
5.45pm: Leave “Crack the Case” seminar 15 minutes before actually finished in order to attend a meeting with my Marketing Group and our tutor professor at another ESADE Building
6pm: Meet with group and tutor professor to talk about next week´s Marketing presentation
6.45pm: Leave towards home
7.15pm: Arrive at home and welcome a friend who will stay during the weekend
8.30pm: Go to have dinner
10pm: Get back to flat and ready for the ESADE Halloween party
11pm: Head over to the ESADE Halloween party at Club Elephant
5am: Go to bed
Saturday:
11am: Get up and get the day started
12pm: Have breakfast with friend
1pm: Do individual assignment
4pm: Have coffee with friend and go shopping together
6pm: Continue working on individual assignments
8pm: Get dressed up, have dinner and have a bar / club hopping
6am: Go to bed
Sunday:
12am: Get up and get the day started
1pm: Have breakfast with friend and lead him to the airport bus
2.30pm: Work on individual and group assignment
6pm: Watch F1-One seasons finals while meeting with a friend of mine from Germany to play online
11.30 pm: Go to bed
Funny week, with time schedules and workloads I was used to have while working. And this will continue as such throughout the whole first year.
More to come soon…
