January 29th, 2010
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
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 [...]
December 28th, 2009
Posted by Sunita
Under: Academic, Oxford Life, Sports & Social, Student Blogs, Sunita Rajkanwar
Now that we are done and over with our first term at Saïd, in the classic spirit of an Oxfordian, I have been doing a mental analysis of time spent with almost three hundred of the most wonderful, well-educated and of course, diverse group of students. Of all the trouble with the study group, of [...]
November 16th, 2009
Posted by Justin Belkin
Under: Justin Belkin, Oxford Life, Sports & Social, Student Blogs
Last year when I was first considering B-school, I remember leafing through the latest Oxford brochure and reading how they were different because MBA students were fully integrated into the University. Over the past five weeks I have come to realize what this really means. For example, during matriculation, our College ‘Freshers’ photo included both [...]
November 13th, 2009
Posted by Caroline Young
Under: Academic, Caroline Young, Oxford Life, Sports & Social, Student Blogs
It’s almost week 6 of Michaelmas term (there are three—Michaelmas, Hilary and Trinity) and even though it sounds cliché, the time is flying by. It seems like only a few days since I arrived at Heathrow, made my way to Green Templeton College, and found my new home for this year. Almost since that moment, [...]