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Name: neener
School: USC Marshall School of Business
Status: Employed...finally
E-mail: Click here!
Reason for blogging: I'm incredibly self-absorbed. |
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I'm listening to...
::"Stay Beautiful," The Last Goodnight
::"Spaceman," The Killers
::"Green Light," John Legend
::"Superstar," Lupe Fiasco
I'm watching...
::24
::The Office
I'm reading...
::Taiwan, A Political History, by Denny Roy
::The Devil and Miss Prym, by Paulo Coehlo
I've just seen...
::Slumdog Millionaire
::I Love You, Man
::The Reader
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It Just Doesn't Stop Second day of orientation. There have been new developments. In the morning, we lined up to receive our core T-shirts. What's a core? Well, the MBA Program Office takes the entire class and divides it into four cores. A core is a group of people who share the same class schedule and classroom. That way, you basically deal with the same people all year. This is useful because the cores are further subdivided into teams. Each team, usually with five to six people, works on various class projects together for the entire semester. We are then assigned to new teams for the second semester.
We then prepared for a day of sitting. We started the day by learning a little more about the career and leadership development services offered to us, and then participated in an ethics workshop led by a very entertaining speaker. She posed some interesting questions about being a "good" professional vs. a "good person, amongst other things. It was also very interesting to learn more about our fellow classmates as we evaluated their solutions for a case that was presented to us. After the workshop, we had a lunch. As we ate, the organizer of the PRIME program (one of Marshall's unique programs) gave us a presentation about the exchange program. Essentially, PRIME is a class. Students are assigned a consulting project for an overseas company in the Pacific Rim. They spend a term working on the project while taking classes specific to the country in which the company is located. At the end of the term, students travel to those countries and give presentations to the company itself, thus gaining valuable knowledge about business in a particular country while getting to travel at the same time. After lunch, we were given our team assignments. Thus I met the five people with whom I will be working extensively for the next 18 or so weeks. During the team-team building workshop that followed, we had to come up with team values and names, which was an interesting exercise that gave us some insight on how the various people in our team work and contribute. I make it sound short, but these workshops took a LOOOONG time. Finally we were able to get our butts out of the chairs for a mixer where we learned more about Challenge for Charity, a joint effort of West Coast business schools that uses competition to do good for the community. Community service is a BIG thing at Marshall.
After meeting some more classmates (it's not a huge class, but it's harder to meet everyone than one would think) at the mixer, I headed back home and took a quick jog around my house before going to the "social event" for this evening. There are social events every day this week! My old, tired body can't take much more of this! This event was in an L.A. bar called Saddleranch that boasts a mechanical bull. The event, although it will contribute to my inability to wake up tomorrow (actually, it's past 1 AM, so I really should say "today" not "tomorrow"), was fun in that (1) I got to meet even more classmates, and (2) I got to see a certain faculty member ride the mechanical bull. The faculty member fell off the bull with rather spectacular somersault, the best dismount of the night by far.
Finally, I was able to come home and check my e-mail and see my latest fee bill. I was very happy to see that my loans (both the Stafford and the private) had been disbursed, making my bank account that much happier. Now, it's off to do some homework, go to bed, and repeat the cycle!
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EBITAS (noun):
Abbreviation for "Earnings Before Income Tax, Amortization, and SGARA." Next week, find out what SGARA is.
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