Syndicate Fever

Mid-terms came and went. I thought it will be a great time to take a breather, but I was wrong. As mid-terms ended, came the syndicate project deadlines. We have 3 main syndicate projects in total; Managing People for High Performance, Accounting for Managers, and Data & Decisions. Accounting was due yesterday and we successfully handed in the day before, much of the credit goes to Ronjon, Stuart and Henry Song. These three guys were in the Accounting sub-group and I am glad all "fightings" over assumptions and write-up ended well.

I am in the MPHP sub-group with David, Leila and Debi. Dave and Leila are a real asset to our group for MPHP. We brain-stormed the points to be covered then Leila did the write-up of the draft with the whole syndicate group reviewing and commenting on improvements to be added. The first draft is already pretty well-written. We will have to finish it up and submit it by next Wednesday. After which, we will have to prepare for a presentation of the project.

Then come the next project of Data & Decisions which is due in two weeks. As Stuart is the Statistics wizard, I am helping him in the data analysis of our project, together with Henry. I think the D&D project is pretty interesting and I am looking forward to the final product of the report. At present, we are only at the very initial phase of data definition.

If you think I am done after the submission of all the syndicate projects, you are wrong. The final exams are in the first week of December! This means I have 24 days left to the exams! Preparation for the final exams, plus the syndicate projects, I have practically no time to do anything else.

Last 3 weeks of first term of MBA = Looking more haggard + More grey hair + Higher stress level + Insufficient sleep + Irregular meals + Weight loss

I think weight loss is the only good thing out of this equation. I woke up at 6am today to attend a talk by Boston Consulting Group in school. Now I am in a syndicate room, going to start studying. What a life, what an MBA life!

P/S: We have 7 syndicate groups in our class. I just took a walk along the syndicate rooms corridor, all the 6 other groups are in syndicate meetings! This is what I call "Syndicate Fever" ;p