The First Few Days
To put it in one word, chaotic. It's only been 2 days since we started taking the "proper" MBA classes (everything else before this was just a warm-up), and already I am a classic case of having to juggle too many balls at once.
Term I at IESE consists of 6 core subjects - Decision Analysis, Analysis of Business Problems, Marketing Management, Financial Accounting, Managing People in Organisations and Managerial Communications. If you're fortunate enough, I repeat, fortunate enough (because the professors are so damn good!) to need Spanish lessons, that's one more subject to study.
Lets break this down. Typically, there are 3 lectures per day + Spanish, so there's a minimum of 3 cases to study at home each day. Considering Spanish class gets over at 1700h and you're home by 1800h, you're still talking about a minimum of 6 more hours of study per day - and that's excluding Spanish. A typical First-termer goes to bed at 0100 and wakes up at 0630, so that's only 5.5 hours of beauty sleep!
Personally, I guess that Year-1 is purposefully made hectic by the professors to allow us to prioritize needs, like the way I choose to blog instead of reading a Financial Accounting case!
On the plus side though (yes, there is a plus side!), the learning curve is amazingly steep. Already we've seen and spoken about industries and companies that I had no inkling about, and considering class participation plays a solid role (well, depending on the subject) in the grading system, the option of taking it easy doesn't exist.
Bring it on!
To put it in one word, chaotic. It's only been 2 days since we started taking the "proper" MBA classes (everything else before this was just a warm-up), and already I am a classic case of having to juggle too many balls at once.
Term I at IESE consists of 6 core subjects - Decision Analysis, Analysis of Business Problems, Marketing Management, Financial Accounting, Managing People in Organisations and Managerial Communications. If you're fortunate enough, I repeat, fortunate enough (because the professors are so damn good!) to need Spanish lessons, that's one more subject to study.
Lets break this down. Typically, there are 3 lectures per day + Spanish, so there's a minimum of 3 cases to study at home each day. Considering Spanish class gets over at 1700h and you're home by 1800h, you're still talking about a minimum of 6 more hours of study per day - and that's excluding Spanish. A typical First-termer goes to bed at 0100 and wakes up at 0630, so that's only 5.5 hours of beauty sleep!
Personally, I guess that Year-1 is purposefully made hectic by the professors to allow us to prioritize needs, like the way I choose to blog instead of reading a Financial Accounting case!
On the plus side though (yes, there is a plus side!), the learning curve is amazingly steep. Already we've seen and spoken about industries and companies that I had no inkling about, and considering class participation plays a solid role (well, depending on the subject) in the grading system, the option of taking it easy doesn't exist.
Bring it on!
posted by Ashwyn at
11:43 p. m.
2 Comments:
This post was writte at 2.43 P.M.
You were in class at that time of the day!
Beware.. IESE Faculty reads your blog. Your are doomed now! You'll get a CC!
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George, at 5:32 a. m.
one click and everything's alright.. wish life was like this! :)
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Ashwyn, at 8:58 p. m.
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