It’s 11pm on a Saturday night and I’m sitting in Spencer (building for Ivey MBA students). What a way to spend a Saturday night. Its been a really rough day, in fact a really a rough couple of weeks. School has been kicking my ass lately and I think I’ve taken on a bit too much on the extracurricular side of things. I haven’t had much time at home or for myself and it’s taking a bit of a toll in a few different ways. The thing is that I don’t see a break in sight and I just seem to be taking on more and more. I recently decided that I will write and finally complete my Professional Engineering designation (i.e. write an exam) in April; yet another stress to add on while I complete the last couple of months of this intense program. The next couple of months promise to be insane, and I’ll have to make some changes to make sure that they are sustainable.
First off, I think I need to unload a bit of the extracurricular stuff; I think it’s about time that I transition the bulk of the Ivey MBAA blogging website responsibilities to the newly appointed team. The initiative has been hugely rewarding but it’s quickly becoming a monster; that said a successful monster as the site continues to grow in popularity by the week! Secondly, I need make the gym more consistent to keep the stress levels down and keep me sane. Thirdly, I need learn to limit my unproductive studying time so I avoid my natural nature of slipping into ‘analysis paralysis’; I tend to hit those late hours of studying which tend to be nothing but diminishing returns and a waste of time in hindsight. Most importantly, I need to make my partner more of a priority; I have been pretty absent from home lately and I don’t feel like that’s fair to her nor has it been easy for me.
Last weekend, ten of us took a trip up to Ottawa for the February long weekend. We had a fantastic time checking out the city and enjoying the winter’esque playground. We went snow shoeing in the Gatineau Park, we hit the Rideau Canal for Winterlude and we got a private tour of Parliament Hill and the Prime Minister’s office thanks to an Ivey schoolmate hook up ;) It was a good time with good friends and a memorable weekend to say the least.
Final exams are fast approaching. I’ve been studying most of the day and will continue to do so basically until the week is over with. I need a break but can’t find one. Oh well, c’est la vie. I’ll suck it up. There’s a light at the end of the tunnel. By the way, I got my Operations course midterm back. I thought I did horribly, but somehow I did pretty well. I think it’s a testament to working with my former Team 5 learning team in preparation for that exam; we all managed to do well. I realized that one can excel in the MBA program without necessarily nailing the quantitative side of things (I screwed the calculations up on the exam). Having good qualitative descriptions, a big-picture view, and management insight can substitute for those quant marks. Ok..one more quote from Marketing class…I really like this one:
“ ‘Intel inside’ was the greatest brand building exercise before Barack Obama”
Pics from “Iowa, er, Ottawa” :)
First off, I think I need to unload a bit of the extracurricular stuff; I think it’s about time that I transition the bulk of the Ivey MBAA blogging website responsibilities to the newly appointed team. The initiative has been hugely rewarding but it’s quickly becoming a monster; that said a successful monster as the site continues to grow in popularity by the week! Secondly, I need make the gym more consistent to keep the stress levels down and keep me sane. Thirdly, I need learn to limit my unproductive studying time so I avoid my natural nature of slipping into ‘analysis paralysis’; I tend to hit those late hours of studying which tend to be nothing but diminishing returns and a waste of time in hindsight. Most importantly, I need to make my partner more of a priority; I have been pretty absent from home lately and I don’t feel like that’s fair to her nor has it been easy for me.
Last weekend, ten of us took a trip up to Ottawa for the February long weekend. We had a fantastic time checking out the city and enjoying the winter’esque playground. We went snow shoeing in the Gatineau Park, we hit the Rideau Canal for Winterlude and we got a private tour of Parliament Hill and the Prime Minister’s office thanks to an Ivey schoolmate hook up ;) It was a good time with good friends and a memorable weekend to say the least.
Final exams are fast approaching. I’ve been studying most of the day and will continue to do so basically until the week is over with. I need a break but can’t find one. Oh well, c’est la vie. I’ll suck it up. There’s a light at the end of the tunnel. By the way, I got my Operations course midterm back. I thought I did horribly, but somehow I did pretty well. I think it’s a testament to working with my former Team 5 learning team in preparation for that exam; we all managed to do well. I realized that one can excel in the MBA program without necessarily nailing the quantitative side of things (I screwed the calculations up on the exam). Having good qualitative descriptions, a big-picture view, and management insight can substitute for those quant marks. Ok..one more quote from Marketing class…I really like this one:
“ ‘Intel inside’ was the greatest brand building exercise before Barack Obama”
Pics from “Iowa, er, Ottawa” :)
Picture 1: Part time at dad's bar
Picture 2: Snow shoeing the Gatineau
Picture 3: Parliament Hill
Picture 4: The Canadian Prime Minister's conference board room
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