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May
May
MBAT!!!
Posted by Hannah Witteveen in Student life
Before starting the MBA program I was told the MBA Tournament (MBAT) would be one of the highlights of the MBA experience, and having just returned from 4 days in Paris, I could not agree more. Wow! Good times! Loads of sports, cheering, parties and fun fun fun! I had a blast! And I feel so much more bonded with my classmates now. 14 schools participated in this tournament. In previous years this only included European business schools, but this year Harvard even joined from the US to play football/soccer of all things (and they won!). A great atmosphere existed…
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Apr
Apr
Loving the celebrations…
Posted by Amy Foong in Student life
Birthdays usually do not mean anything special to me but after living in the dormitory with people from other nationalities, birthdays have now a different meaning for me. Birthday celebrations are such warm affairs here! Fellow dorm-mates arranging surprises, gathering other classmates living in the same dormitory (or even calling classmates living nearby) and just having fun! And when I say fun, it means smudging the entire face of the birthday person with cake (seems like a tradition from the Indians) and much more (which of course is subjected to your imagination). I love it how that people might only…
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Apr
Apr
Pace increase
Posted by rsm-rrupprecht in Student life
Time flies by and keeps accelerating! After a week of very interesting lessons on communication, social networks and leadership, the core courses of the first MBA term started. This is the stuff why I came here! Biz talk from morning till night We dig into balance sheets and income statements, learn how to simulate business problems, interpret the simulation outcome and take decisions from a management perspective. It may sound weird but I am somehow into managerial accounting. It is really exciting to see the impact of strategic management decisions in the financial figures of a company. At the same…
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Apr
Apr
First week completed
Posted by rsm-rrupprecht in Student life
Time is not linear, at least if one believes in what Albert Einstein told us. The first week in university has passed and although it flew by in fast forward mode, last Monday feels very far away because the time in between was packed with information, activities and impressions: We heard speeches from a lot of different people and all of them were either rhetorically great or very interesting or both. During the week we already had two career development workshops which gave us a glimpse into the manifold options that we have to network and hunt jobs during the…
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Apr
Apr
From beach life to honeymoon phase
Posted by rsm-rrupprecht in Student life
After quitting my job and spending some 7 weeks on the windy beaches of South Africa and the beautiful city of Cape Town, I have moved to Rotterdam to be a student again. Within the next year, I will participate in the MBA class of Rotterdam School of Management. Settling was fairly easy and my small but functional apartment in the De Schans building will be a good place to study, eat and sleep for the next 12 months. The biggest asset of the apartment besides being a 5 minute walk from campus is that it has a lot of…
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Apr
Apr
Home is where the heart is
Posted by Ashwin Srinivasan in Student life
..And where the remnants of previous terms assignments lie, where text books are neatly (?) stacked up and where there is a permanently lingering fragrance of coffee, thanks to the numerous hours spent awake during term one. Yes, Rotterdam does feel like home the notion reaffirmed during my vacation, touring parts of Europe. As enjoyable as the past few days have been, it feels really good to be back in Rotterdam sitting at my laptop making grand plans for the months to come. Term one was all about fun and games there was a lot of sports, cooking,…
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Apr
Apr
First quarter completed
Posted by rsm-rrupprecht in Student life
In my last post, I described how time flies here in Rotterdam. Last week, term one out of four was completed after an intense phase of group assignments and studying. We had another couple of days left to become even more busy as usual with exam preparation. The most feared exam was on business statistics and luckily we took the exam yesterday. Four other subjects will be tested in the rest of this week before we go into spring-break. Wrapping-up what happened and how life is as an MBA student. One of our teachers used a very nice phrase to…
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Mar
Mar
The end of my MBA journey
Posted by Aushima Thakur in Student life
Yes, I am done. I have finished my MBA and graduation is 22nd March. The guest of honour, for me, will be my three-year-old nephew. I have bought him a formal blazer to wear as I want to have a photograph of me wearing my graduation gown, with my arms around him.Twenty years from now, I want him to be proud of me and understand what that picture means to me. It was a long journey indeed. There are still times when I look back and am amazed at my own journey. I was 22 before I discovered that I…
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Jan
Jan
Salsa time!
Posted by Hannah Witteveen in Student life
After a busy, but fun, two weeks of orientation and personal leadership development, it was time to wind down and dance some salsa at Salsability dance school near Rotterdam Central Station. Some came just for fun and some in preparation for the salsa competition at the MBAT (MBA Tournament in Paris) in May where 4 couples will compete together against couples from other business schools. As you can see in the pictures we had quite a turnout and the more advanced of us had great fun teaching the beginners. Im sure the local dancers were wondering what this diverse group…
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Jan
Jan
The MBA experience, pre-MBA
Posted by Joris Wiemer in Student life
So at a certain point you may conclude that there’s a gap between where you are and where you want to go in your further career. In my case from external relations at a sustainability not for profit, to developing sustainable strategies in a business. My bridge of choice went by a three letter acronym: MBA. Ironically I’ve been assured that my life and career aims are likely to change as a consequence of actually doing an MBA, so who knows where the bridge will end up leading! Enrolling in an MBA program was certainly not a choice made without…
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