星期二, 十一月 01, 2005
So, the halfway point of the semester is here; I can't believe time has passed so quickly. Everything has been a blur. Between the coursework and the internship, recently I've been so tired that I'm been in a waking dream state, where everything has seemed far away and not quite real. Unfortunately, I've had to give a couple of impromptu presentations in that time. I have no idea how they went, but I think they were real stream-of-consciousness performances! The professor in question didn't seem too upset afterwards, though, unless he was just stunned, of course.
It's only a few week, really, until the MBA is over. I've come a long way since I started those GMAT prep courses in the summer of 2003. Most of my cohort have already finished. Some have jobs, some are still looking, and I have to make some tough decisions about that real soon. I have to decide how little money I can live on, how much security I need, what I really, truly want my post-MBA life to be about. I can't find the exact post, but i remember willy nilly posting about post-Insead life, and reflecting that her new job was just more of the same stuff that she'd done the MBA to escape. That isn't going to be for me. I did the MBA to open up my options, and I'm not going to just go back to the same old shit as before.
Not so long ago I got a few emails on the NBS mailing list, about the annual party to see off the outgoing cohort (ie mine). A year ago, I went to the party to see off my seniors; I was in full-on class-A MBA mode, all about doing it for myself,and I blogged about the MBA not being about network-building. Since then, naturally, I've come around, and seen the light, and I've been pretty active on online business networking communities. How ironic that so many of my cohort, who were so gung-ho about networks, have joined these communities and never use them...
