Busiest day of the month

Last Thursday, my alarm clock went at 7am, and I woke up to get myself in class by 8.30am. Accounting for Managers class started at 8.45am and David Trende (Accounting lecturer) fully utilised my brains until 12pm. Then I had a quick lunch at the cafeteria with a few classmates, I brought myself lunch from home, it was pitta bread, salad & tuna with dressing. Then I rushed back to CUB theatre for career sessions. It started with MBS Alumni Guest Panel at 1pm, we had alumni from AT Kearney (Consulting firm), GE Healthcare, and Kraft (FMCG). They gave very good insights to their jobs and responsibilities, as well as how is their day-to-day life like in their respective firms and industries. Such career sessions in MBS always set my mind thinking, what do I want to do after my MBA, what am I good at, what do I love to do, how should I go about getting where I want to, and so on.

Then we had Internship presentations by senior students, there was one who worked in a consulting firm, one who volunteered to give back to KIVA in Mexico, two who had a business consulting project with eye research center and one who worked as an analyst with Pacific Brands. All stories were interesting and exciting, these students truly enjoyed their internships. This too set me thinking about my next steps in my career. The career session ended at 4pm with Leo (career consultant at MBS) giving us a presentation on MBA Career paths and what we will be doing to prepare for our careers from now till Dec 2008.

At 4pm, some of the classmates went to play footy at Uni square in front of school, while I joined the ladies in school for a short meeting of Women & Management club at the Student Lounge. The agenda was to prepare for the Networking Lunch event to be held in a few weeks' time. We discussed on the food, the seatings, the list of guests, and so on. I had a quick dinner cum snack at 5.30pm.

Then at 6pm, I attended the event "Clean Technology Business Opportunities". Clean energy is very popular these days, just like dot com companies in the 90s. But I believe clean energy will not suffer the fates of dot com companies, the world is leading to self destruction and clean energy is extremely improtant. The companies that presented were CO2CRC (CO2 storage), Synergetic (environmental engineering), azuratec (integrated water systems), hydrexia (H2 storage). Each story was inspiring and interesting. These are the entreprenuers who strived on based on their beliefs. The event ended at 9pm with the closings from Venture Capital companies; CleanTech Ventures and Starfish Ventures. This brought us to the financal part of ventures. Aaron Fyke, partner of Starfish Ventures, is a MIT Sloan MBA alumni. He talked about the risks involved and returns associated with venture capitalism.

At 9pm, a friend gave me a lift to the Backpackers pub on Elizabeth St. I was meeting a few of my classmates there for pub quizz! It was time to let my hair down and relax. I had a few glasses of beer and we did relatively well in the quizz by coming in second. Yeah! I left the pub around 11.30pm and headed straight home to bed. There was early morning class the next day at 8.45am. It was the most tiring day of the month but every second was worth it. =p