Election time
Excitement rises as it is just one more day to go. I’m looking forward to it and will make myself go to one of the presidential election parties. We will see how exciting elections can be. :) But before Tuesday arrives let me tell you a bit about how I am doing as a re-born student (that wording just came as an inspiration after watching the movie "W.") after a few weeks of classes. I “only” have three classes this term which I thought to be not a lot and I was seriously thinking about getting on another one, but I listened to our advisor. So I’m taking 11 credits this term. It does not sound very much, but I learned that I was mistaken. I soon started thinking and planning my every day life in terms of readings, assignments and team projects. However, I do not want it to look like I’m complaining. The classes are interesting and I take a lot from them. Amongst other things I’m learning to become a great leader in our leadership development class. Even if I’m not too sure if it will work out for me at the end, I definitely learn at least the concept of good leadership. By the way, from what I learned so far Barack Obama shows all the characteristics of a good leader especially his self-control and self-awareness is astonishing. So let’s keep our fingers crossed for tomorrow. :) Another class I have is economics. It is partly a repetition of what I learned during my undergraduates, but our professor definitely makes this class very entertaining for me. He is quite a character and the biggest challenge is mostly to try to follow his ever changing thoughts that he is used to speak out as soon as they come into his head. We even introduced a new verb in his honour – bizjacking. You should know that his name is Bizjack and bizjacking basically refers to every reading or studying we have to do for the class. Just substitute “I will go studying for the economics class.” with “I will go bizjacking.” and everybody in our cohort will know what you are talking about. Last but not least we have a very interesting marketing class which is called Pioneering Innovation. I never imagined that I would enjoy a marketing class. Our professor is giving us a hard time, because we have assignments to hand in every week, but I just like the innovation part of the class. We are working on a team project within which we are supposed to write a business concept for a disruptive innovation. I think our team is working on a nice new business idea. I will tell you more once we fully developed the business concept. The ultimate goal for our professor is to enable at least one of our teams in class to get their business idea presented in front of a venture capital firm. Let’s see how it goes. :)
Excitement rises as it is just one more day to go. I’m looking forward to it and will make myself go to one of the presidential election parties. We will see how exciting elections can be. :) But before Tuesday arrives let me tell you a bit about how I am doing as a re-born student (that wording just came as an inspiration after watching the movie "W.") after a few weeks of classes. I “only” have three classes this term which I thought to be not a lot and I was seriously thinking about getting on another one, but I listened to our advisor. So I’m taking 11 credits this term. It does not sound very much, but I learned that I was mistaken. I soon started thinking and planning my every day life in terms of readings, assignments and team projects. However, I do not want it to look like I’m complaining. The classes are interesting and I take a lot from them. Amongst other things I’m learning to become a great leader in our leadership development class. Even if I’m not too sure if it will work out for me at the end, I definitely learn at least the concept of good leadership. By the way, from what I learned so far Barack Obama shows all the characteristics of a good leader especially his self-control and self-awareness is astonishing. So let’s keep our fingers crossed for tomorrow. :) Another class I have is economics. It is partly a repetition of what I learned during my undergraduates, but our professor definitely makes this class very entertaining for me. He is quite a character and the biggest challenge is mostly to try to follow his ever changing thoughts that he is used to speak out as soon as they come into his head. We even introduced a new verb in his honour – bizjacking. You should know that his name is Bizjack and bizjacking basically refers to every reading or studying we have to do for the class. Just substitute “I will go studying for the economics class.” with “I will go bizjacking.” and everybody in our cohort will know what you are talking about. Last but not least we have a very interesting marketing class which is called Pioneering Innovation. I never imagined that I would enjoy a marketing class. Our professor is giving us a hard time, because we have assignments to hand in every week, but I just like the innovation part of the class. We are working on a team project within which we are supposed to write a business concept for a disruptive innovation. I think our team is working on a nice new business idea. I will tell you more once we fully developed the business concept. The ultimate goal for our professor is to enable at least one of our teams in class to get their business idea presented in front of a venture capital firm. Let’s see how it goes. :)
As I have already mentioned above my life here is pretty much dominated by readings, assignments and team projects. However, I have little news to share with you as it has been a while since I posted anything. About three weeks ago I found a way to continue my studies of hospitals in different countries. It is a funny thing. I never have to go to a hospital in Germany, but as soon as I go abroad they look so attractive to me. So to make this long story short, I went climbing and fell off the wall. As I did not manage to fall on my feet and thought it a good idea to use my left arm, I dislocated my elbow. Luckily I went with some other guys from my cohort. They drove me to the emergency room and made sure that someone looked after me. I especially have to be thankful that Nate, one of my classmates, stayed with me till 5am (!) in the emergency room and made sure that I got home safely without any further damage. Right now I’m doing much better and am enjoying physical therapy to get that arm back to moving properly. So much for the bad news... About a few weeks ago I got to know that someone is actually interested in publishing my thesis which I wrote during my undergraduate studies. Unbelievable but true, I will have my own book published in about 6 to 8 weeks. The title will be “SME promotion activities in Indonesia - Ensuring a sustainable supply of raw rattan for Central Java’s rattan furniture industry”. And then of course we had Halloween last week and funny enough the Germans (Adrian, Bettina and Hannah) were having a Halloween party at their place. I will try to get some pictures to post them. There is not much to say about the party except for it was fun, crazy costumes and for the ones that know about it, I finally had “noch ein Schnelles zum Abschied.” For further explanation I would recommend you to ask one of my former colleagues of Accenture in Nuremberg. :) So much for today…I do not really want to make any promise, but I will try to give you a recount of the election party tomorrow as soon as possible. Till then keep your fingers crossed for Obama!
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