Motivation

During the last 18 months our live was defined by one main topic: MBA and the last 6 month by MBA at SAID Business School in Oxford. – GMAT/TOEFL prep, GMAT/TOEFL test, MBA application forms, reference-letters, essays, interview, fund raising *G*, college application … (When I look at this list our days seem to have more than 24 hours)

I say OUR live here because the decision to do an MBA is something that both partners have to bear, even though only one will sit in the form. If this fact isn’t clear from the very beginning, the preps and the year on-site will be hard for the relationship.

The decision to go to university again at the age of 30 isn’t made out of a mood but rather a step which is well matured. At the first moment you leave everything behind – the livelihood, your job, your friends and your family – AND WHAT FOR?! For one year of little sleep, craming at the university and this all also in a foreign language?! This prospect comes across as a prison for some of our friends, our family and in a way for us as well.

But we regard the decision we made together at the beginning of 2006 as a challenge and huge opportunity to gain experience. It is going to be a year in which every one of us and mainly we both together will gain experience and unforgettable impressions, get to know new people and a new country. This will affect us and let us grow. This image of our near-term future allows us to look forward expectantly. It is comparable with a trip on a river during which you can see different things along the course and edge: Things you know, things you have never seen before, big things and fillips you would have never expected to see. The course of a river isn’t straight but rather diversified and that’s the fact which makes the journey enthralling.