Term 2 Classes

With the start of the new term (Michaelmas term), we got to look forward to a new load of classes. The line-up was as follows:

Monday: Organisational Behaviour (note my Irish spelling!) in the morning
Tuesday: Operations Strategy in the morning
Wednesday: Financial Statement Analysis (aka Accounting) in the morning
Human Resource Strategy in the afternoon
Thursday: nothing set in stone - sometimes one-day special classes
Friday: International Finance in the morning
Marketing Strategy in the afternoon

In addition to the above, we continued a series of "Personal Development" classes on topics ranging from problem solving to leadership to emotional intelligence. Also, we had the start of our big company project that will continue throughout the rest of the MBA - until the end of August.

My goal this term was to stay on top of my reading and stay organised throughout the term - something that got a little out of hand during the first term. So, I purchased several binders, notebooks, and set to work getting everything in place from the start.

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That lasted under 2 weeks.

As classes got underway, there proved to be simply waaaaay too much reading assigned than was ever going to be accomplished, and the addition of the company project started consuming our lives. Sleep was little to be found...as well as the concept of "fun" in the MBA.

To assist in the reading, our class compiled a list of all the readings for our Organisational Behaviour (OB) and Human Resources (HR) classes and divided them up for people to read and summarize for the rest of the class. This proved very helpful later on during exam time!

The basic summary of term 2 is that it was a marathon run that ran for 2.5 months - the only thing to do was to keep plowing ahead in hopes of the finish line arriving sooner than later. The following posts will try to highlight both that experience as well as the glimpses of life outside of school.