Half way there ...
... and yet I don't quite feel that smart! Wasn't I supposed to have figured out quite a bit about how I could take a floundering business and turn it into this money making machine, by now? Wasn't I supposed to have had these life altering experiences that would stay with me for the rest of my life? ....
So tomorrow marks the official end of my 1st year as a Duke MBA and as I sit here taking stock of the situation, the first thing that strikes me is..... why the F am I still up and writing this inane blog when I have a Market Intel final at 9 AM tomorrow.... and the answer is... I just feel like rambling about what lies ahead over the next month or so.
I need to decide whether I want to move from my current apartment. Then I need to find someone to sublease my place to for the summer. And then there's the minor point of finding a place to stay for myself in DC over ther summer. All of which needs to be done over the next 3 days before I leave on another one of my marathon trips. Ah, that should be fun. Everything seems to be in place and some unforseen visa glitch notwithstanding (P.B., I'm talking to you), I should be in Japan 5 days from now! Note to self, talk to D about things to do in Kyoto/Tokyo, talk to C about Beijing and Hong Kong. I still have to figure out whether I want to fly directly to Mumbai from Beijing and then go to Bangkok or whether I should go to Bangkok and then go to Mumbai.... decisions..decisions.
With all the stuff going on, I haven't even had a chance to get excited about the impending India trip!! Don't know whether I'll get a chance to visit Ahmedabad and Delhi, but Mumbai should be fun. Hopefully A will be in town to show me around.
I'm not entirely sure whether it was such a good idea to plan on getting back to the US just 3 days before my internship starts. Don't think passing out in front of a client would be such a good idea. Which brings me to the other issue nagging away at the back of my head. I really want to create a good impression over my internship and convert it into a full time offer. The one thing worrying me is not the number of hours I'll have to put in or whether I'll understand whatever industry I end up working in, or whether I'll be able to apply all the princles I have "learned" in business school, ...no.. all that I got covered, the thing worrying me is my Excel skills or lack thereof! How did I not ever use Excel when the whole world and their mama seems to have lived on it all their lives!
Anyway, on that note, time to go to bed and dream happy dreams about conjoint analysis and backward market research.
So tomorrow marks the official end of my 1st year as a Duke MBA and as I sit here taking stock of the situation, the first thing that strikes me is..... why the F am I still up and writing this inane blog when I have a Market Intel final at 9 AM tomorrow.... and the answer is... I just feel like rambling about what lies ahead over the next month or so.
I need to decide whether I want to move from my current apartment. Then I need to find someone to sublease my place to for the summer. And then there's the minor point of finding a place to stay for myself in DC over ther summer. All of which needs to be done over the next 3 days before I leave on another one of my marathon trips. Ah, that should be fun. Everything seems to be in place and some unforseen visa glitch notwithstanding (P.B., I'm talking to you), I should be in Japan 5 days from now! Note to self, talk to D about things to do in Kyoto/Tokyo, talk to C about Beijing and Hong Kong. I still have to figure out whether I want to fly directly to Mumbai from Beijing and then go to Bangkok or whether I should go to Bangkok and then go to Mumbai.... decisions..decisions.
With all the stuff going on, I haven't even had a chance to get excited about the impending India trip!! Don't know whether I'll get a chance to visit Ahmedabad and Delhi, but Mumbai should be fun. Hopefully A will be in town to show me around.
I'm not entirely sure whether it was such a good idea to plan on getting back to the US just 3 days before my internship starts. Don't think passing out in front of a client would be such a good idea. Which brings me to the other issue nagging away at the back of my head. I really want to create a good impression over my internship and convert it into a full time offer. The one thing worrying me is not the number of hours I'll have to put in or whether I'll understand whatever industry I end up working in, or whether I'll be able to apply all the princles I have "learned" in business school, ...no.. all that I got covered, the thing worrying me is my Excel skills or lack thereof! How did I not ever use Excel when the whole world and their mama seems to have lived on it all their lives!
Anyway, on that note, time to go to bed and dream happy dreams about conjoint analysis and backward market research.
posted by MJ at Tuesday, May 01, 2007
4 Comments:
congrats on being (almost) halfway done. good luck on the exam! and hey, if you need someone to show you around bombay, i might be up for the job. cheers
i think you will do just fine...the mba must have taught you to manage situations like these, if not make life altering business decisions ;))
have fun in your japan and india trips. hopefully we will get to hear about it.
Stumbled on your blog. It's comforting to see others in similar struggles. I've been having nightmares about my conjoint analysis project for two weeks. Congrats on finishing, I've got 2 days left on my 1st year in MBA program in Boston. g'luck and cheers
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