Week 5 Michaelmas

During this week it seemed like the pressure abated a little. After a couple of weeks handing in two assigments, this week's one meant we had the ability to relax a little (not a lot). We now only have 3 weeks of lectures left and many many assignments. Next week we have a mock financial reporting exam, 2 assignments to hand in PLUS 2 big assignments to start working on. I think that sleep will be placed far down on the list of priorities.

Anyway, as usual please see the list of activities for this week (unrelated to assignments or lectures)

MBA Group Photo

All 216 of us dressed in sub fusc (see earlier entry for explanation of this dress code) for a formal photograph.

I even managed to get one with my study group...go group 25!

James, Pawan, Julie, Me, Tass and Vijoy

Rowing Social

An informal pizza and vodka evening designed to assign silly names to all rowers for the Christchurch regatta in week 7. Erm, we have gone with a Top Gun theme and I am 'Jester', although I am not sure whether it is because of my age or sense of humour.

EP Dinner

During our time at Oxford we have to complete 2 big projects. One is our SCP (summer consulting project) and the other is the EP (entrepreneurial project). For the past few weeks all students have been going around trying to build their teams (of 5) and mine is excellent. Whilst I don't have a photo yet, I will post one as soon as I can. The dinner was for all of us to thrash around some ideas for projects and get to know each other a bit better.

Japanese night

This was great. Nami and I arranged a dinner (with the help of Maho and Hiro) for anyone with a Japanese link; be they students, partners of students, children of students, friends of students etc. The format of the evening was 'bring a dish' and over 40 people turned up. There was an amazing sellection of food ranging from Gyoza, Nabe, Oden, Nimono, Green Tea Tiramasu, Sushi (and the list goes on) and it was so good that we have all decided to do another one next term.

Maho, Me, Allan, Andrea, Martin, Shoko

Someone's child, Swapandeep, Me, Simon, Emily and ShokoNamiko among a crowd

Soul night at Hertford

Another MCR (Middle Common Room) party at Hertford College. The theme this time was soul and the 70's. Whilst I wasn't 70's I did have soul as you can see by the pink boa.
Rowing Winter League

Today we had our first regatta as the Hertford Novice B's. This was a 1.5Km time-trial and it took us about 6 mins. To be honest, it was the first time that we had actually rowed at full pelt for that period of time so whilst we were far (far) from perfect, we gained valuable experience which should bode us well for the Christchurch Regatta in week 7.

This is it, another week through a my MBA. Its now push push push to get the assignments in, find the time to row and do some background study. Until next week...