Let's get ready to rumble!

After a busy term exams are lining up again...

Monday March 17th:

09.30 - 12.30 Marketing
14.30 - 16.30 Finance II

Tuesday March 18th:

09:30 - 11:30 Operations Management

Wednesday March 19th:

09:30 - 11:00 Financial Management


Please keep your fingers crossed :-)

Vallendar – Pub Crawl

The students at the WHU in Vallendar have once a month a „Pub Crawl“ and they decided to invite me to the last one. I know the Oxford Pub Crawls and I was excited although I thought I have seen almost every pub in Vallendar on my way from the Guesthouse to the Uni – and this was only a 2 minutes walk. BUT I love surprises and you never know if Vallendar has some special secret Pubs.

Now I can say that Vallendar has 5 Pubs. 2 of them were already closed at 10 pm and the audience in the others was around 60 years old – if there were persons.

But it was fun! The students really cared about me. Maybe the picture tells you why. …..

20 boys – 3 girls.

Valentines Day in the call room

Candle light, red wine, romantic music ….. This could be a “normal” Valentines day BUT who wants to have an evening with only one person?

We supervisors have the chance to be in the call room with around 15 students – brilliant.

Strawberry jelly hearts, 3D confetti and cards – that’s the way the day should be.

PASSED

What a great day - we just got the results for last term's exams and I passed them all!

Haha, funny how my best result was in Decision Science :-) For all of you who know my performance in this topic during my first degree - this will be a big surprise and so it was for me.

Typical british: queuing for the transcripts...

Christmas vacation in Germany

On Tuesday we hit the road back to Germany.

Using the EuroTunnel it took us only seven something hours for the 610 km from Oxford to Essen which seems to be ok if one considers the flexibility we have during our stay by having our car with us.

We will spend our time here visiting family and friends and most important: relaxing from an exhausting three months period.

Stay tuned for updates :-)

one year ago...

Last year on Dec. 19th 2007 I got the offer from SAID Business School to be a member of the class of 2008 with this email:

Dear Sebastian

I am delighted to confirm the decision of the MBA Committee to offer you a place on the 2007 – 2008 programme. Dr Blackmon was very impressed when she spoke to you for your interview and the MBA Committee has agreed that you meet the very high standard expected of an Oxford Student.

We hope very much that you will accept the Committee’s offer and join the 2007-2008 class. We aim to welcome another class of around 220 to the next MBA, allowing each student to benefit from close supportive and constructive relationships with Faculty.

We look forward to watching over the next few months how the profile of our incoming class develops. To give you an idea of the profile structure, the current class is made up of 214 students from over 40 countries, confirming the School’s reputation as a truly international centre of learning.

You will shortly receive your official offer letter >from Colin Mayer, Dean of the Said Business School, and Stephan Chambers, MBA Director. These, along with your offer pack, will be sent in the post by DHL Connect to the address on your application form; if you prefer for your pack to be sent to another address please let me know as soon as possible.

The offer pack will contain details of your log on to our Class of 2007 - 2008 website, and discussion forum. The website is designed to help you with the practicalities of coming to Oxford. This has information from the next steps of securing your place onto the programme to traveling to Oxford. You will also find details of what is happening at the School and hopefully you will get a sense of what an exciting year is ahead of you. The discussion forum is a chance for you to get to know your new class mates straight away and chat to some of the students on the current programme.

We very much hope you will become a member of the 2007 – 2008 Oxford MBA class and look forward to welcoming you to Oxford and the course.

Please feel free to contact me directly by email or phone should you have any queries or questions.

I look forward to talking to you soon.

Sally

Sally Webb

MBA Admissions Coordinator

Wow, I remember the feelings: pride, fear, gratefulness, excitement, confusion, eagerness...

Now, one year later and after the first term gratefulness is the prevailing feeling. Gratefulness especially that Klaudia is such a strong and encouraging wife, supporting me from the very first second of the MBA idea and for sure the big reason I finally made it into the program.

Thank you so much for being the pillar of strength for me, for keeping me committed, working, learning, for having an open ear and a good advise and for joining me on this trip.

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy: They are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
** Marcel Proust (1871 - 1922) **

In addition to that a big thank you to our families and friends who are interested in what we are doing and who support us in completely different ways. I feels good to know there is someone who really cares!

Furthermore I am grateful for all the great experiences I had so far: with great lecturers, prominent speakers and classmates from more than 40 nations, some of them with the potential of becoming good friends.

DONE!!!

Wow, what a week! Six exams in four days but now: finished for this term.

The one hour finance was though today. The trip to the exam and back to the city in a pink stretch limo hilarious.

And the post exam drinks at the turf (students do that for 800 years now) legendary.



We had Champagne and Bloody Marry instead of breakfast and are now on our way for the evening part of the celebration.



Great weather in Oxford these days... cold but sunny.