June 12th, 2010

Mind the gap

Posted by Justin Belkin
Under: Justin Belkin, Oxford Life, Sports & Social, Student Blogs

I’ve attended 7 college dinners in the past 8 days. And this next week looks just as busy. It’s natural, of course, that with our final term ending we all want to connect with classmates who we’ve lost touch with, and visit colleges that we haven’t had time to yet see.
Conversation at dinner varies, but [...]

March 24th, 2010

Hilary week 7

Posted by Justin Belkin
Under: Justin Belkin, Oxford Life, Sports & Social

Now the tables were turned. Slightly over one year had passed since that blistering cold February night when I set course across the Atlantic with Lisa for my Oxford MBA interview. I strategically scheduled my interview during an Open Day to maximize my visit. Now flash forward to Friday where I found myself seated opposite 60 [...]

March 24th, 2010

An Interview with Winklevoss Twins

Posted by Sunita
Under: Oxford Life, Sports & Social, Sunita Rajkanwar

I hate to admit it but I am one of the least informed students at School. We are almost finished with our second term and I’m still left amazed when I’m told that the sweet girl who sits in the second row was actually a viscous lawyer in her pre-Said days. In one of those [...]

January 29th, 2010

Two perspectives

Posted by Sunita
Under: Academic, Events & Speakers, Oxford Life, Sports & Social, Student Blogs, Sunita Rajkanwar

Things to brag about being a student of Oxford Saïd Business School
1)      That as per the latest FT ratings, we are now the second best Business School in UK and the sixteenth best in the world.  Yay! Yay! Yay!
2)      Oxford is a cute little town with 800 years of history. That means that the college [...]

January 11th, 2010

Oxford MBA Gala Dinner

Posted by Justin Belkin
Under: Justin Belkin, Oxford Life, Sports & Social

On December 17th, 243 Oxford MBAs descended toward Ewert House, and sat for our final exam of the Michaelmas term. Decked out wearing ’sub-fusc,’ we ripped through the Marketing case study. We had spent the past week sitting for uncomfortably long periods – wearing our tuxedos with academic gown – as we constructed 3×3 matrices [...]