Archive for December, 2008

Unbelievably, yesterday was our last final test of this semester. Yes, as weird as it may sound, a quarter of the academic part of this journey is behind me. This half semester we studied Accounting, Finance and Strategic Marketing (fascinating!). And now we move on to a 5 week break which will be mostly dedicated to preparations for the internship search that will actively start on the Spring semester.

I mentioned it is a quarter of the academic part, because from a calendar point of view there is tons of activity happening during breaks as well. For example, during this winter break there are academic trips to India and Brazil and student organized trips to Israel and China. During spring break there is a student trip to Japan and an academic trip to Vietnam, and on summer break we all hope to work for our internships, and about a third of the class also participates in IBD - a course which involves consulting to a real company, mostly in developing countries, with a trip of 3 weeks during summer break to finalize the project on the actual company’s location.

Since I haven’t written in a while, I carry a heavy debt to you guys (I’m tempted to say that this is a risk-free debt, but that’s a joke that only finance students will understand, and even than it’s debatable how funny it really is). So my plan for winter break is to make sure I write here retrospectively on all the major events that happened in the second part of last semester, together with updates on activities during he break itself.

I conclude this post with the immortal words of our accounting professor (as can be also seen on our t-shirts in the picture below): In this world, first there’s sex, then accounting, then everything else.