»November 3, 2009: The pressure in the cooker just got abnormal
In one of my previous posts I had hoped that the work pressure would subside in coming days,but I got it totally wrong. I did a counting today and figured I have ten subjects to take care at the moment, phew even I am surprised how am I managing this.On top of this, there are umpteen other equally important things such as career services,networking,social life etc etc. I am already sleep depriv... ... (MORE)
»November 3, 2009: Vlerick - 10th on ranking and best on salary gain(Economist)
Got these news few days ago through a tweet of Matt Symonds. Together both the news brought a lot of cheers for the current class. Colleagues were ecstatically tweeting and updating their Facebook status messages with the links to these reports.The current class would graduate under the fading shadow of Financial Crisis , although we all are very optimistic and these rankings definitely give u... ... (MORE)
»November 3, 2009: Mentorship Programme - Speed Dating way
Vlerick has a Mentorship programme for the FT MBA students. Until last year every student was assigned a mentor based on her profile.Somehow that idea didn t work very well, with few students complaining about the organization of the programme.This year Vlerick decided to do it in a Speed Dating way. Every student got to choose ten to be mentors from the list of given alumni,then every stud... ... (MORE)
»November 3, 2009: Inter Culture Communication as a subject and its implications...
I particularly wanted to write about my experience of one of my first papers in MBA curriculum, Inter Culture Communication . This paper was taught was by Dr Bruce Stening, Dean of our Beijing Campus and a phenomenal person.Dr Bruce took us through an experience that I feel is one of the most important takes of an International MBA.We were put in a group of five people, deliberately made as div... ... (MORE)
»October 5, 2009: Pressure Cooker days
I would refer to my first three weeks in Vlerick as Pressure Cooker Days . It suddenly felt that I was bulldozed with information from all directions. I thought I was good at multi-tasking but boy I have to get much better.Most of the time is spent in classroom and doing the readings for the next classes. On top of it there is no dearth of assignments. Most of the assignments are group based a... ... (MORE)
»October 5, 2009: First Days in School
The first day in the school started with a sumptuous breakfast followed by formal introduction of Dean,Program Director and other staff members.Our class consists of 89 participants from 41 countries, isn t that a pretty international group? We were divided in groups of five to know the members of the group and then introduce the group members to the rest of the participants. It was a very usef... ... (MORE)
