Monotonous Week #6

I have very little to write about in week 6. The exams are coming fast and people are getting more serious and studious.

On Tuesday, I assisted to the Arthur D. Little information session. They mentioned that they typically recruit younger MBAs as associate consultant, which makes my chances higher. They also value work/life balance, which is another interesting aspect. The partner mentioned that they are recruiting heavily for their US offices.

On Thursday night, there was a student-led presentation about joining a venture capital firm. It was quite interesting. I learned a lot about what MBAs do in VC firms.

On Friday morning, I had an oral presentation in my “Strategies of product and service development” class. It went well, but we had a few contradictions when answering the class questions… Oups.. There was a much needed economics review session on Friday evening, and after a quick workout, I went to Holland Village with some friends to have a delicious Japanese BBQ, where the BBQ is actually in the center of the table and you grill your own meat. I came back quite early to study statistics, and rapidly fell asleep.

On Saturday, I did stats problems from 11am until 5pm, and then played soccer at the NUS field. We had a team of 10 INSEADers against 10 local guys. We thought we were hot stuff, but it was 3-0 for the other team after 5 minutes. After a little bit of international cooperation, the game ended at sunset 5-4 in our favour. I didn’t do a very well, but it was good exercise nevertheless. I will try to play more often.

Saturday, we had a nice BBQ/party at the Dover pool. As is now the tradition, people whose birthdays are close get thrown in the pool fully dressed. Security broke our party up at 11pm, so I went to Genta’s place to hang out and drink Japanese vodka-like drinks. I went for a quick swim around 1:30am to cool down and passed out on my bed.

I drank too much on Saturday night and felt pretty hung over on Sunday. I tried to do some statistics but I was quite unsuccessful. The weather was miserable all day, so I lied on my bed, rested, and studied a bit during the afternoon. I felt much better around dinner time and was able to review the entire finance book.