Only one more

After another study session yesterday evening with the big aim of getting all the DEM models in my head and the three hours exam this morning there is only one evening of studying and one exam left in this term.

Yesterday's evening was fun. We did an experiment to find out if the consumption of polish vodka can increase learning aptitude ...

The results are not yet released - we will see :-)

Another snapshot of my learning mates Katy and Nick:

The exam today was difficult for me. From the total three hours we had one hour of reading time for a case study and then got our three questions with another two hours to answer them. The case was nearly twenty pages long which definitely is a lot for people not native in English. We will see how it was in February...

This afternoon and evening is reserved for the final studies for Finance tomorrow...
The whole group is crazy about finishing the term and starting the celebrations. So am I :-)

2/3 completed

Puh, Decision Science was another hard one. Really good, that we spent so much time on the preparation. It is unbelievable how fast 90 minutes can pass by when you maltreat your head and your calculator with standard deviations, standard errors, p-values, autocorrelation and all that stuff... Nearly got caught in a trap on question 5 by overseeing that it has way more than letter a) i-iii ... Lucky me, that I realized it early enough...

Attention: Funny evening with preparation for tomorrow (developing effective managers) and Thursday (finance) approaching...

50% done

With finishing the Strategy exam only a couple of minutes ago I'm done with 50% of this term's exams... Yippee!

Strategy seemed to be fair. We had to analyze Lego's competitive position and I found that having been an avid Lego user as a child did unfortunately not really help answering the questions.
Hard to predict results for this one but when it positively correlated with the pain in my writing hand after 75 minutes of shorthand it could be at least a pass ... Keeping fingers crossed.

Will do a bit of Decision Science practice now, take a nap and then head to the Examination hall again for number four :-)

Strategy revision

After five hours of strategy revision I'm not sure whether I will be able to remember all that stuff Prof. Strategy tried to drum into my head tonight...
I'll know in less than 12 hours... :-)

Prof. Strategy's reaction to me repeating the "Four degrees of diversification"

(first) Katy with what always helps: coffee
(second) crowded study place...

Exams Part II

Yeah! Two done - four to come...
Financial Reporting was harder than what we had seen in the sample exams but manageable in the end. Hopefully not too many stupid mistakes :-)

Will spend the evening studying for tomorrow's Strategy and Decision Science and for Wednesday's Developing effective managers. And when there is time left tonight I may even do another Finance Exam in preparation for Thursday! Yippee! :-)

Exams

Wow, how fast can one hour pass by?
We took our first exam in Managerial Economic this morning. One hour with "price discrimination", "Nash Equilibrium" and "Monopoly" :-)
The exams seemed to be fair. We will see what I think when results are published (not before February...)

By the way: Did you ever take an exam in a black suite, white shirt, white bow tie and the funny gown? Feels a bit strange but is fun ;-)

At 2.30 pm we will take Financial Reporting... Keep tuned for updates :-)

running again

Seeing the last two posts one might think I don't have other things to do than running. With exams next week much closer than I'd like them to be this is obviously not true. But running has the big advantage of being an exercise one can do nearly everywhere and at every time. Therefore it can be easily fit into a learning schedule (if one has one...). Furthermore it helps relaxing, taking a break from all the academic stuff we are dealing with these days...

For this reason and with the European MBA Olympics (MBAT) in next year’s spring we planned to have a first run with the SAID Business School’s running team. Heavy studying, rain and the early time are hopefully the only reasons why only three avid runners turned up...

We did a nice run of 1:15h (here is the route we took) and even managed to take a picture at the University Parks Sports Grounds in front of a sign remembering Roger Bannister running a mile in less than 4 minutes ever.

Daniel who took the picture is unfortunately not on the photo...

So... Enough for the moment... Back to Managerial Economic, Financial Reporting and all my other good friends. There is still lots of work to do...