Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Week 2 of Trinity
I told myself that I'd do a better job of updating the blog this term, but that clearly hasn't happened. Here we are in Week 2 and this post is my first.
During the break I stayed in New York a little longer than originally planned as signs of spring started to infiltrate the city. I went to Central Park to take pictures of the flowering trees and enjoy the weather.
Back at Said, the only classes this term term are electives and I've chosen: corporate valuation, entrepreneurial finance, business in China, retailing, real estate, and managing complexity. The first lectures generally went well and I'm hoping that the content will be useful down the road. Speaking of the not-too-distant future, I have been about as bad at job searching as I have with updating this blog. My current plan for the summer is to take electives but spend most of my time in New York looking for a job. I have a couple of decent leads and am hoping that some of the hiring freezes I've heard about will soon end. During the summer I also plan to work on the Oxford Business Review. The OBR is going to be an academic journal and I have been working with a group to get it started. Unfortunately a few of those people are incredibly busy with other projects and can't continue to work on the OBR, so I'm going to try and get it going myself, hopefully with a couple of new folks. It's a fairly big under-taking but it will bring some visibility to the school and provide some cool opportunities for students, plus I think starting and managing something of this size will be a good experience for me. Hopefully you'll read more about it in the near future!
In other news, my mother came to visit for a couple of days. She spent only one night in Oxford before leaving for Paris the next day. We took the chunnel and arrived in a couple of hours. The weather, remarkably, was perfect. It was 70+ degrees and sunny and as a result we park-hopped from the Jardin des Tuileries to the Jardin de Luxembourg to the Champs de Mars. Though my mother might have been slightly fed up with "walking aimlessly" for hours, we got to see a good bit of the city. We did a self-guided tour of the Opera, stopped for lunch (and tea)at Mariage Freres and drank some good wine. My French has definitely taken a serious hit in the (almost) six years since I lived there, but I can still get around and hold basic conversations, which is helpful. This Friday I am off to see Chris in NYC. I'm nothing if not intimately familiar with that trek by now!
During the break I stayed in New York a little longer than originally planned as signs of spring started to infiltrate the city. I went to Central Park to take pictures of the flowering trees and enjoy the weather.
Back at Said, the only classes this term term are electives and I've chosen: corporate valuation, entrepreneurial finance, business in China, retailing, real estate, and managing complexity. The first lectures generally went well and I'm hoping that the content will be useful down the road. Speaking of the not-too-distant future, I have been about as bad at job searching as I have with updating this blog. My current plan for the summer is to take electives but spend most of my time in New York looking for a job. I have a couple of decent leads and am hoping that some of the hiring freezes I've heard about will soon end. During the summer I also plan to work on the Oxford Business Review. The OBR is going to be an academic journal and I have been working with a group to get it started. Unfortunately a few of those people are incredibly busy with other projects and can't continue to work on the OBR, so I'm going to try and get it going myself, hopefully with a couple of new folks. It's a fairly big under-taking but it will bring some visibility to the school and provide some cool opportunities for students, plus I think starting and managing something of this size will be a good experience for me. Hopefully you'll read more about it in the near future!
In other news, my mother came to visit for a couple of days. She spent only one night in Oxford before leaving for Paris the next day. We took the chunnel and arrived in a couple of hours. The weather, remarkably, was perfect. It was 70+ degrees and sunny and as a result we park-hopped from the Jardin des Tuileries to the Jardin de Luxembourg to the Champs de Mars. Though my mother might have been slightly fed up with "walking aimlessly" for hours, we got to see a good bit of the city. We did a self-guided tour of the Opera, stopped for lunch (and tea)at Mariage Freres and drank some good wine. My French has definitely taken a serious hit in the (almost) six years since I lived there, but I can still get around and hold basic conversations, which is helpful. This Friday I am off to see Chris in NYC. I'm nothing if not intimately familiar with that trek by now!
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