Week 7 also flew by incredibly quickly. Leo, Tapan, Fernando and I booked our trip for the inter-period break. We are going to Cambodia to visit Angkor Wat, and then spend three days in Vietnam.
We had our last classes from Monday to Thursday. Normally, I prefer to study in my room at home, where no one can distract me. However, the desk in my room is so small that it is very hard to study with a textbook, a laptop and piles of paper everywhere. On Friday, I discovered the joy of studying in the library. I studied from 11:00am to 10:00pm straight. I spent almost all day on economics. There was also an alumni reunion on campus on Friday. One of the alumni showed up in a chauffeured-driven Maybach, the U$500k ultra-luxury limo-like stretched sedan made by Mercedes. It must be worth around $2M in Singapore with all the taxes etc. I guess some INSEAD alumni are rather $ucce$$ful…
On Saturday, I showed up at the library again at 11:00am, and was kicked out when it closed at 10pm. I finished up economics and started studying statistics. On Sunday, I studied again from 10:30am to 11pm, mostly on statistics, and touched finance a bit. I don’t recall every studying so much at Schulich, much less in high school. I must have studied over 20 hours for economics alone!
On Monday, I had the “Leading people and groups” group exam. It went rather well, but one of our team members made a distasteful comment about our paper after it was handed in. The comment really rubbed me the wrong way, and I will make sure to share this feedback with this person in a constructive fashion when school resumes next week…On Tuesday, I wrote the economics exam in the morning, and walked out one hour before the end of the exam. I’m very confident that I did well. However, the grades for core courses at INSEAD are relative to peers, so if everyone did well, which seems to be the consensus, I may not be significantly above the average. In the afternoon, I had the final statistics exam and it also went quite well. It was extremely long, and I feel fortunate to have been able to finish it, although I had no time to revisit my answers. I have a feeling I should do ok here too. Most people walked out shaken but happy to be done with this rather boring subject. On Wednesday, about 15 of us went out to dine at Holland Village, where I had very bad ribs. I miss the Houston's/Baton Rouge-like ribs... (by the way, I still run on the treadmill regularly, and managed to break the 30-minute barrier for 5km this week!)
Tomorrow Wednesday, I have my last exam: finance. It’s in the afternoon, so I will have a chance to study more in the morning. After the exam, the Champagne and beer/wine penalties will be settled at the INSEAD bar. I got away without a single penalty, which are attributed for cell phones ringing in class, Windows logon sound, and amphi games. There should be 40 bottles of champagne and over 30 bottles of wine for 150 students, so there will likely be some drunkenness in the air… At 7pm, buses will shuttle us to a private party where we will continue to celebrate the end of P1, no matter what the outcome of the exams.
On Thursday, I will sleep late and catch a flight to Siem Reap in the afternoon. I will come back from Cambodia and Vietnam next Tuesday (missing two days of school, after perfect attendance during P1) and look forward to sharing pictures and stories soon after returning.
P1 is the most intense period at INSEAD, and it is now pretty much over. Just one more exam to go!
Off to the finance books!
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