Summer Term Roundup!

This is the pre-final term of a year long intense program; already feel like I have learnt a lot of new things and much more to explore out there. This is in a way an unusual term, unlike previous two terms; a module runs from Monday morning to Friday evening. Not only that a class is a mix of full time, modular, and distance learning (DL) MBAs who travel from virtually every corner of the world to be here. Their approach to a module is slightly different than full timers as they look for more practical aspects in the module and also contribute with up to date first hand industry knowledge. In all three modules I did so far i.e. Entrepreneurial Finance (by far the best module of my MBA), Strategy & Practice, and Managerial Economics, the contribution of DL and Modular participant has been very useful. I am sure like me whole full time cohort would have learnt something from the experience of these director level individuals.

I have one more module, International Business, to go next week then my academic or perhaps taught part of MBA is over. Final term require us to do a consultancy project with a firm of your choice and then writing 25,000 words dissertation around it. A mere thought of writing 25,000 words scares me. My full time cohorts are finalising their projects with firms such as Motorola, Pepsico, Intel, Volkswagen, HBOS etc. I will start my project in the second week of June with one of the leading suppliers in telecommunications industry.

Weather permits, we will have our first barbeque party soon and this would also be an opportunity to meet all my classmates at a time which is a rare occasion considering the kind of term we had.