It's been a sorta hectic couple of days. Can't recall when the last post was so here's just an update. Strategy exam last Thursday was a dumb-ass exam as everyone expected. Totally clueless as to how to prepare / work on the stupid open book exam. Think it is just a bull-shitting fest. Basically, the student who can produce the most and best BS in the shortest amount of time wins.
Worked some on Friday morning with (surprise surprise) one team member for my finance case. Didn't get much done and just kinda worked on the financial model myself in exasperation. Jeff's friends who were on exchange in Canada (the ones we visited in London, Ontario), came over at night and stayed at our place. Brought them to Great Lakes for some much needed (for them) Chinese food.
Saturday was a miserably rainy day, saved only for the fact that it was once again (hell yeah!) Football Saturday. We brought the 3 of them for a sinfully filling American breakfast at the Northside Grill. I went kinda earlier to Angelos to try to get a seat but phew.... 45 minute wait because of the game day crowd, the fact that it was Saturday morning, and it was parents' weekend. Nice to see college kids bringing their parents around every year this time on parents' weekend. Kinda not possible for Singaporeans but oh well, what can I complain about, a small price to pay for studying abroad.
We brought our friends on a short walk around campus before the game. Just kinda realized (for the millionth time) how beautiful it is on campus in fall. The yellow / red trees, the beautiful school buildings; even in the miserably grey, grainy-rain day. We trotted down towards the Big House and watched the band on their march towards the stadium, soaking up the awesome atmosphere (and equally awesome rain).
The opening quarter of the game (against the puny and pathetic Minnesota Golden Gophers) was just painful. Brought out memories of "The Horror" when we actually trailed 10-0 to them. Finally (freaking hell) when the offence decided to get their act together, we got back into the fight and beat the morons to pulp 34-10. Considering that we were playing without Mike Hart and Chad Henne, a decent win though I can really do without the routine first quarter shit-in-your-pants shocks which we have had for all the games against pathetic teams.
Dinner at Potbelly's. Best fast and relatively cheap sandwiches in town. Friends headed home sometime after midnight and I collapsed onto my bed for a (sorta) restful night.
Painfully awoke early on the Sunday morning for a meeting at 10am in Kresge (b-school library), to start my 9 hour finance group meeting. As always, only me there and team members come and go. Come for a couple of hours, head off to do something else, sometimes they'll return, and leave, and return, and leave, and don't return. Basically, what I'm trying to say is that it was f**king infuriating to be carrying the team all the time. Once or twice, fine, I can live with that. But week in week out? Step it up dudes. This is not funny anymore. Ran into Ariel and Anny at the b-school and grabbed Thai food for dinner at Tuptin; feel a little bad since I was in a pretty foul mood but it's kinda hard to convince yourself that it's fun sitting there, crunching numbers for 9 hours straight (not counting hours from the other days).
Don't get me wrong. I love the b-school and think it's the most awesome place to be. No doubt about it. Just pissed with certain people, that's all.
Finance class this morning was pretty forgettable and not worthy of mention (once again). Going to work on my individual (YAY!) finance case now. Maybe we should just do individual assignments for that class every single time instead of group cases.
On a side note, the weekend was painful in other ways which I shall not disclose here. Tired and disappointed.
Have a good day people.
Wilson
P.S. My elbow is pretty alright now except for a tiny ache, should be completely fine in a couple of days. Probably pulled a tendon or something. Also, my apologies for the spike in profanity levels nowadays on the blog, though you will probably hear a ton more from me in person.
Worked some on Friday morning with (surprise surprise) one team member for my finance case. Didn't get much done and just kinda worked on the financial model myself in exasperation. Jeff's friends who were on exchange in Canada (the ones we visited in London, Ontario), came over at night and stayed at our place. Brought them to Great Lakes for some much needed (for them) Chinese food.
Saturday was a miserably rainy day, saved only for the fact that it was once again (hell yeah!) Football Saturday. We brought the 3 of them for a sinfully filling American breakfast at the Northside Grill. I went kinda earlier to Angelos to try to get a seat but phew.... 45 minute wait because of the game day crowd, the fact that it was Saturday morning, and it was parents' weekend. Nice to see college kids bringing their parents around every year this time on parents' weekend. Kinda not possible for Singaporeans but oh well, what can I complain about, a small price to pay for studying abroad.
We brought our friends on a short walk around campus before the game. Just kinda realized (for the millionth time) how beautiful it is on campus in fall. The yellow / red trees, the beautiful school buildings; even in the miserably grey, grainy-rain day. We trotted down towards the Big House and watched the band on their march towards the stadium, soaking up the awesome atmosphere (and equally awesome rain).
The opening quarter of the game (against the puny and pathetic Minnesota Golden Gophers) was just painful. Brought out memories of "The Horror" when we actually trailed 10-0 to them. Finally (freaking hell) when the offence decided to get their act together, we got back into the fight and beat the morons to pulp 34-10. Considering that we were playing without Mike Hart and Chad Henne, a decent win though I can really do without the routine first quarter shit-in-your-pants shocks which we have had for all the games against pathetic teams.
Dinner at Potbelly's. Best fast and relatively cheap sandwiches in town. Friends headed home sometime after midnight and I collapsed onto my bed for a (sorta) restful night.
Painfully awoke early on the Sunday morning for a meeting at 10am in Kresge (b-school library), to start my 9 hour finance group meeting. As always, only me there and team members come and go. Come for a couple of hours, head off to do something else, sometimes they'll return, and leave, and return, and leave, and don't return. Basically, what I'm trying to say is that it was f**king infuriating to be carrying the team all the time. Once or twice, fine, I can live with that. But week in week out? Step it up dudes. This is not funny anymore. Ran into Ariel and Anny at the b-school and grabbed Thai food for dinner at Tuptin; feel a little bad since I was in a pretty foul mood but it's kinda hard to convince yourself that it's fun sitting there, crunching numbers for 9 hours straight (not counting hours from the other days).
Don't get me wrong. I love the b-school and think it's the most awesome place to be. No doubt about it. Just pissed with certain people, that's all.
Finance class this morning was pretty forgettable and not worthy of mention (once again). Going to work on my individual (YAY!) finance case now. Maybe we should just do individual assignments for that class every single time instead of group cases.
On a side note, the weekend was painful in other ways which I shall not disclose here. Tired and disappointed.
Have a good day people.
Wilson
P.S. My elbow is pretty alright now except for a tiny ache, should be completely fine in a couple of days. Probably pulled a tendon or something. Also, my apologies for the spike in profanity levels nowadays on the blog, though you will probably hear a ton more from me in person.
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