Round II begins.....

After close to a month, it is finally time to get back to the (oh, $%$##@) grind!!! Classes start this week, and as usual, full attendance is expected for a period of at least 3 weeks before people start disappearing!! The break was good , though a tad boring since nothing major happened. Christmas this time was subdued , New Year's even more so..Spent some time up in Ruislip with family and for the most part have been boning up on case studies for upcoming interviews(more an excuse to get together to try and play some table tennis...). Some are downright kooky ("Are there any 2 dogs in the world with the same amount of body hair? ") while some are more scary ( Profitability and Market Entry cases where you are scrambling around to ask "sensible" questions [at the very least]). This term will be packed, with 6 courses, 1 audited course, 1 entrepreneurship project, multiple job interviews (hopefully), case preparation , assignments(17 for us who took the more sensible electives, 27 for those suckers who took a combo of MCS and TIS!!(evil grin here.....)) and err..partying?? You are in the week of the usual moaning about turning up for class at 8:45 in the morning...
Trinity term electives are up for bidding ( you need to bid for taking the courses that you want just because SBS derives some kinda sadistic pleasure in getting its oh-so-smart MBA/MFE/EMBA crowd to outguess each other in snagging the best running electives. Finance subjects are hot favourites!!!) And yes, I bought my tickets for my Motherland visit in April!!! Cheap..Now only if the airline would actually fly after near bankruptcy!!!Groups have been shuffled, Sections as well and we are now going to be blessed with another 3 months of classes with (hopefully) new eccentric characters who will again (hopefully) put up their hands to ask irrelevant questions in class !!!Interesting sidenote: Did I tell you about the betting syndicate run last term where we had bets on the number of questions that a certain member of class would ask in a particular subject in a 3 hr time frame (categories-Relevant, Irrelevant, Witticisms!!!)!

Bring it on!!!!