Last week of lectures
I can't believe the MBA lectures are coming to a close!!! Amazing how much you can learn and develop in a one-year MBA, and also how fast it goes by. This is the last week of formal lectures. Many classmates are leaving Cambridge soon, invoking a sappy general feeling not dissimiliar from the end of senior year of high school... in fact i have a sudden craving to have a shiny new yearbook to pass around and get signatures next to everyone's pictures, with lots of 'have a nice summer' and smiley faces scribbled about!!! (actually we ARE creating a yearbook, not sure if that is a standard MBA practice or not but we initiated it among the class, thanks Hendrik and Viola et al; it just isn't available quite yet).We do still have until 1 September before we turn in our final individual project and are considered 'finished' with the MBA. But things will slow down (theoretically) with fewer people around and no formal lectures. Everyone keeps asking one another 'are you staying in Cambridge for the summer?' I am definitely not leaving Cambridge for potentially the best season of the year to be here! Summer in Cambridge that I've seen on brief trips here before can be magical with the green and sunlight and picnics and time on the River, so fingers crossed. Not that we've had much sun so far this year...
So what am i up to for summer? Going to do some marketing work for my previous employer, Kaplan, in London part time, in addition to my IP. The Kaplan London office has a lot of GMAT and MBA prep offerings, as well as medical/nursing and other courses. Sounded like a great idea to work part-time at first, hey make some cash to travel with and good experience, and still should be, but the commuting between Cambridge and London is not sounding quite as fun now. On the plus side I will have no excuse but to read lots and lots of great books this summer on my train rides! Commuting in London, etc, is SO much nicer than in Miami...compare driving an hour in horrible traffic with people honking and cutting each other off, with sitting and reading a great book for an hour...even if the train/tube is crowded there is still no comparison!
It will be good to spend more time in London again though. I love the city, and was very well-adapted living there nearly 3 years. It's funny now living in a small town like Cambridge though, when I go into London I feel a bit more like the "Country Mouse" now, walking around overwhelmed and wide-eyed...so much shopping, so much going on, wow.... kind of fun.
posted by Jen @ 2:33 PM
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