Friday, October 03, 2003
Accounts for Fun & for Profit!
Yes, the rumour's true. Against all my expectations and indeed my best efforts, I'm actually sorta, kinda enjoying the accounting class. And I'm learning a thing or two, too.
Please don't tell anyone :/
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Please don't tell anyone :/
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Defeat from the Jaws of Victory!
I was right about the strangers. They are in fact fairly new, having arrived a few days after the main lot. I hope they don't feel too left out. I've heard there are a few more still to come, as they decided to skip the pre-course and jump right into the thick of it. It's only been two weeks, but it feels like two months with all that we've been through. I hope they will be able to cope when they arrive.
I had my second game of squash yesterday evening and am happy to report another resounding defeat on my part. If you want to know, I was beaten by the guy (Mark E) who was beaten by the guy (Lawrence) who was beaten by the guy (Ethan) who originally beat me. I guess that makes me the guy to beat!!
What's that? You want the scores? Okay then:
9-7
9-5
9-0
9-1
6-9 (to me)
Well, the good news is that I'm not as sore as I was from the first game, which hopefully means I'm getting fitter :). I should hope so; we're playing a football friendly against the Economics department a week on sunday, appropriately themed as "Theory vs Practice - The Showdown!!"
How's that for fighting talk, Cambridge style!
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I had my second game of squash yesterday evening and am happy to report another resounding defeat on my part. If you want to know, I was beaten by the guy (Mark E) who was beaten by the guy (Lawrence) who was beaten by the guy (Ethan) who originally beat me. I guess that makes me the guy to beat!!
What's that? You want the scores? Okay then:
9-7
9-5
9-0
9-1
6-9 (to me)
Well, the good news is that I'm not as sore as I was from the first game, which hopefully means I'm getting fitter :). I should hope so; we're playing a football friendly against the Economics department a week on sunday, appropriately themed as "Theory vs Practice - The Showdown!!"
How's that for fighting talk, Cambridge style!
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Tuesday, September 30, 2003
Who's That!?
Strange to say, but even after a week of the MBA there are still people not only whose names I don't know but I swear I haven't even seen before!
This must be due to the streaming; Judge puts us into two groups of about 55 each and we stay in these groups for all lectures for about a term or so.
This has the wierd effect not only of encouraging you to get to know the folks in your fellow stream very well, but actually actively losing all recollection of some of those in the other stream, to the extent that you end up looking at people and thinking "eh?".
That just happened to me by the way, in case you're wondering :)
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This must be due to the streaming; Judge puts us into two groups of about 55 each and we stay in these groups for all lectures for about a term or so.
This has the wierd effect not only of encouraging you to get to know the folks in your fellow stream very well, but actually actively losing all recollection of some of those in the other stream, to the extent that you end up looking at people and thinking "eh?".
That just happened to me by the way, in case you're wondering :)
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The Cambridge Primaries
The Cambridge Business School Social Club needs a new committee. Step forward all those interested in running it!
That's right, I'm the Official Returning Officer for the election of the committee, which entails communicating with the nominees and the electorate and making sure all is fair and above board. While this might seem trivial to some, it's actually a little serious since there is a lot of kudos in putting down membership of the committee on one's cv/resume.
So the deadline for nominations is this Friday and the election will take place next week sometime. In the meantime I'm around answering questions posed by nominees and also putting up a website, which will be another blog. Being the committee web head does mean that I'm actually on the committee as well as the returning officer, so it does have it's advantages... ;-)
Conflict of interest? What conflict of interest? You can tell I'll do well in Corp. Social Responsibility!
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That's right, I'm the Official Returning Officer for the election of the committee, which entails communicating with the nominees and the electorate and making sure all is fair and above board. While this might seem trivial to some, it's actually a little serious since there is a lot of kudos in putting down membership of the committee on one's cv/resume.
So the deadline for nominations is this Friday and the election will take place next week sometime. In the meantime I'm around answering questions posed by nominees and also putting up a website, which will be another blog. Being the committee web head does mean that I'm actually on the committee as well as the returning officer, so it does have it's advantages... ;-)
Conflict of interest? What conflict of interest? You can tell I'll do well in Corp. Social Responsibility!
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Monday, September 29, 2003
Ministry of Funny Walks
Glancing around the Judge Institute today are a number of stiff, scarred and bruised students, all waddling more than walking. No, we hadn't got into a fight with the townies over the weekend (well, not yet), rather we'd had a solid game of football the day earlier...
Sunday 28th. 1pm. Cambridge.
They converged on Jesus Green as the grey stormclouds gathered overhead, each one surveying the other twelve.
Time for football.
It had been a tough week for the class of 2003 and they all needed to let off some steam. Even so, they weren't expecting quite the level of passion that was quickly aroused once the teams were sorted and the game was under way.
Quick passing, daring tackles and lightening shots. Both sides of six were not just 'playing for fun', despite what the earlier email said. Half an hour had gone by in a flash, and both teams were dripping with sweat. But one side had decisively taken control of the game, with the score at 6-3.
The gloves were coming off.
In a desparate final bid, the underdogs rallied to push forward! Tight play, quick one-two's and deft footwork helped even up the scores a little, but ultimately the outcome was never in doubt. The opposition had nothing left to give after another hour of such valiant effort, and with both sides spent, the 'White Shirts' pulled off a sluggish victory at 10-5.
Man of the match to Sam for passion and creating chances, golden goal goes to Christoff, fastest goal to Max for a fluke, craziest goal to Ethan for an excellently-headed own-goal and finally dirtiest tackles to Matt and Ashley for chopping Max's windpipe and tearing up his shins, repectively - nice teamwork boys :)
With passion and heart like that shown on Sunday (and a bit more practice!), Oxford and London don't stand a chance!
The line-up (sorry if I've forgotton some names)
White Shirts:
-Ethan
-Jorn
-Ashish
-Max
-Cesaro
-York
Dark Shirts:
-Ben
-Christoff
-Matt
-Sam
-Ashley
-Ed
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Sunday 28th. 1pm. Cambridge.
They converged on Jesus Green as the grey stormclouds gathered overhead, each one surveying the other twelve.
Time for football.
It had been a tough week for the class of 2003 and they all needed to let off some steam. Even so, they weren't expecting quite the level of passion that was quickly aroused once the teams were sorted and the game was under way.
Quick passing, daring tackles and lightening shots. Both sides of six were not just 'playing for fun', despite what the earlier email said. Half an hour had gone by in a flash, and both teams were dripping with sweat. But one side had decisively taken control of the game, with the score at 6-3.
The gloves were coming off.
In a desparate final bid, the underdogs rallied to push forward! Tight play, quick one-two's and deft footwork helped even up the scores a little, but ultimately the outcome was never in doubt. The opposition had nothing left to give after another hour of such valiant effort, and with both sides spent, the 'White Shirts' pulled off a sluggish victory at 10-5.
Man of the match to Sam for passion and creating chances, golden goal goes to Christoff, fastest goal to Max for a fluke, craziest goal to Ethan for an excellently-headed own-goal and finally dirtiest tackles to Matt and Ashley for chopping Max's windpipe and tearing up his shins, repectively - nice teamwork boys :)
With passion and heart like that shown on Sunday (and a bit more practice!), Oxford and London don't stand a chance!
The line-up (sorry if I've forgotton some names)
White Shirts:
-Ethan
-Jorn
-Ashish
-Max
-Cesaro
-York
Dark Shirts:
-Ben
-Christoff
-Matt
-Sam
-Ashley
-Ed
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