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A death on Facebook
The irony is he barely used it. But the Facebook phenomenon exploded out of the teen scene around the time we started our MBAs in ’07, and it became one of those things that tied the cohort together. Many of us lived on campus, most in the same building, and it was a warm and […]
I’ve got a bad feeling about this
October 2, 2008
I’m in touch with a few of the latest Warwick MBA full-time cohort, and one thing has become clear: they’re all named after Star Wars characters. I mean… Sumudu M? Jib Warittha? Gokturk D’mir? Sumudu M’s undoubtedly an X-Wing fighter jockey, defending the rebel alliance from the Empire. Jib Warittha, obviously an ambassador of a […]
Goodbye
September 12, 2008
I left the Warwick campus today. Much as I arrived: in the pouring rain. And now I’m back in London, in my new home. A cheerful top floor of a pleasantly scruffy house down south. Lying on an unfamiliar bed, in the dim light of an dusky lamp, stone cold sober, thinking. And trying not […]
Dissertation’s in
September 11, 2008
I take the last paper-and-book laden walk from Lakeside to the Business School. A brief pause, a few chance hellos, and a final walk up to the third floor. I hand the two newly-bound copies of my 171-page, 24,220 word dissertation to the office people and wish them well. And just like that – it’s […]
I feel sick
September 10, 2008
Weird. Now the three-month dissertation project is complete – as usual, it all came down to the last 48 hours – I’ve suddenly lost my usual vitality. In fact, since waking at 7 I’ve felt like crap. I’m guessing the focus on a rather difficult research question kept me so occupied my body just somehow […]
Say, now THERE’S a good-lookin’ graph
September 8, 2008
Not to blow my own trumpet, but I do think this chart that’s just emerged from my dissertation research is one of the coolest looking graphs ever!
Four days to zero hour
September 8, 2008
In the game now. My final few days at Warwick University, still working furiously on my dissertation project, with the 25,000 word report due at noon on Friday. Only a hiccup with the Large Hadron Collider represents an alternative!
Low energy day
September 1, 2008
Well, after dealing with a credit card fraud on Saturday – kudos to Barclays and PayPal here; they made a big and messy job about as simple as it could be – and suffering the syrup-slow train services into London this weekend, I’m starting Monday dog tired but positive about the future. I moved into […]
Sucks like a Dyson on steroids
August 25, 2008
This sucks. Too many goodbyes, too much work, surrounded by packing boxes that only remind me this life is about to end. I’m fighting the dark pool of sadness welling up inside me, but it hurts. Somehow, this year’s been about more than an MBA; it’s been about constructing a different life, something humanscale and […]
Burning oil for burning rubber
August 20, 2008
The pain has stopped. After seven hours of media research for my MBA dissertation, I always knew starting a client assigment at 8pm wasn’t going to be much fun. Dreaming up ideas for seven double-page spreads for a carmaker, after a day painstakingly building 480-point data matrices of media sentiment for FTSE350 companies; it’s all […]
The strangest of feelings
August 20, 2008
Bit of a flat week. I’m on campus for the whole week, for the first time in months; no trips to London, Paris, or dropzones on the cards until next week. I thought I’d enjoy just being here, my last few days of being a student, but instead I feel suffocated. Maybe it’s because it […]
Sorting out life, intense as uncut wasabi
August 8, 2008
Mission almost accomplished. This week I’ve part-sorted my next role, confirmed some other work that’d take about a day a week for some extra pocket money, and talked about a potential project in Paris that’d pay off a chunk of MBA debt. And I saw my new home. In keeping with my year-long principle of […]
Dreaming on a deserted campus
August 3, 2008
Blast.As the wind howls and the tumbleweeds drift around the hollowed-out shell of Warwick University, I thought I’d gathered enough material to write the definitive book on doing a top MBA course from the viewpoint of a slightly non-mainstream student, but it turns out Broughton at Harvard got there first. HBS’s Dean calls his book […]
Spinning it with Bernoulli
July 8, 2008
I’ve decided to include a paper over 250 years old in the literature review of my MBA dissertation, Daniel Bernoulli’s “Specimen theoriae novae de mensura sortis (Exposition of a New Theory on the Measurement of Risk)”. It’s just possible this is the oldest paper ever cited in an MBA dissertation. He’s actually of very high […]
The Good Student
June 24, 2008
I’m a good man. And tonight I had proof. Just spent an evening with a friend, nothing fancy, just noodles and Sauv Blanc. Forgot completely I’d had a load of laundry tumble drying in the block opposite, so went out to get it at 12.30am. I’d been ready for bed for some hours and groaned […]
The importance of sandwiches
June 19, 2008
Back in the city! Starting my dissertation project in earnest, I’ll now be spending half of each week in London. Feeling fresh. Feeling fast, strong, healthy after nine months of study. Feeling pretty good, in fact. And all the better for finding a good sandwich shop. If there’s one feature that really ‘makes’ an office […]
There Will NOT Be a waterfight! See Below -
June 10, 2008
And supposedly mature MBAs will definitely NOT be attending. “Right, as some of you may have heard, the recent attempt to organise “Warwick Water War 08″ was cancelled due to “health and safety” issues. The university has said they do not wish for any alternatives. So, furthering on from that particular group, I bring you […]
June 5th, 2008: the perfect day
June 5, 2008
I want to preserve this day. Wrap it in gauze and keep it in a wardrobe like a wedding dress. Dry it gently in the breeze next to a new-mown lawn, then fold it lovingly to the dimensions of a rosewood drawer, then slide it shut to keep it crisp and fresh forever. Today is […]
Bittersweet rush of a year in the classroom
June 1, 2008
The last roll call! And just like that – it’s gone. The 14 courses of the Warwick MBA, all teaching now finished. Just last assignments and a dissertation to take care over the next couple of months. A final MBA party, hastily arranged, happened last night, and for a few beautiful hours everything was like […]
Sweet smell of … something
May 29, 2008
What a great surprise. Somehow I’ve passed all the Term 2 exams! I expected to fail one and possibly three, given that a) I’m crap in exam halls, b) I’m not a finance guy, c) I’d deliberately chosen electives I’d find difficult (finance stuff), and d) I turned out to be the ONLY PERSON in […]
September 25, 2009
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