November 21st, 2008

Sleepless nights beget more sleepless nights (and days)

Posted by Sumeet
Under: Oxford Life, Sumeet Bakshi

I always wanted to do an MBA from a renowned business school, but it was just a “want” till March 2007, when I actually decided to spend some sleepless nights to do soul searching on why I “need” to do an MBA and to research on the golden question – MBA from “where”.
These sleepless nights [...]

November 21st, 2008

First weeks of my Oxford MBA

Posted by Rebecca
Under: Academic, MBA Bloggers 2008-2009, Oxford Life, Rebecca Regan-Sachs, Sports & Social

Week 6 of 8 is coming to an end here at Saïd Business School, and I should really be studying. But if there’s one thing I’ve learned (in addition to various cashflow discount methods), it’s that you really have to take advantage of the incredible opportunities at Oxford that also exist outside the Business School…especially [...]

November 21st, 2008

“Good Bye Bangalore, Hello Oxford”

Posted by Vinay
Under: MBA Bloggers 2008-2009, Oxford Life

At the outset, let me do some stock taking. It has been close to 2 months that I arrived at Oxford ‘the city of spires’ ! And what an amazing and often amusing period it has been. There is a familiarity, an intimacy, a certain sense of déjà vu that has come to grow about [...]

May 12th, 2008

Spring has come!

Posted by Satoko
Under: MBA Bloggers 2007-2008, Oxford Life, Satoko Ueyama

It’s been already a month since Trinity term (the third term) started. Assignments are coming up and we are once again beginning to feel a bit stressed out. But there’s one nice thing that is so different from the previous terms; the spring has come!
On May 1st, Oxford has an event (May Day) to formally [...]

March 3rd, 2008

Hilary Passing By So Quickly

Posted by Daniel
Under: Academic, Daniel Seiderer, Events & Speakers, Oxford Life

There’s only one week of lectures left for Hilary Term. After that, it’s one week for revision and then, it’s exams week again. I can’t believe that the second term is already almost over. It seems that it just started. Last Friday, I submitted an assignment for Operations Management. It was about Zara, [...]