Media Summit, Tatoo, exams, strategy and home!!

Long time since my last post (I have to get used to starting my posts with a sentence like this one..).

Many, many things have been happening around here. Of course, all my beloved fellow bloggers have posted about them. It's good they're not as lazy as I am...

The London Media Summit was terrific! We had some really good speaches (Luke Johnson, from Channel 4, and Victoria Barnsley, from Harper Collins, come to mind). The user-created content panel went beautifully (in fact, it was the pannel with the highest attendance!). I met loads of interesting people during this looooong day and, when finally I got home, I just collapsed. It was very tiring. Another interesting thing from this summit was the speach from David Jones, Microsoft. He presented a project they have in London called Life2 (Life 'squared'). This is kind of the ultimate hi-tec house. Everything connected to everything else, convergence is the goal in this place. Perfect for the lazy people like me :-) Microsoft invited some people from LBS to visit them soon and I joined the group. Can't wait to check it out! More on that later.

We recently had our first exam. It was the Managerial Economics midterm exam. Now this really feels like being in school again! That strange feeling about seating for an exam! :-) But this was a multiple choice exam, so it went ok. No reason to panic. Since the exam was on a Thursday, everyone just went to Sundowners afterwards. Nice way to get rid of stress. Actually, free drinks are always welcomed, not only after exams.

The Saturday previous to this last one we had, in my opinion, the most surreal experience around here: the Strategy Double Session! In few words, this is like a group crack-a-case session, for a whole day!! This is insane! Mainly because my group ended up in one of the smallest rooms around here! Class started at 10am, discussion went on in the lecture theatre until noon and after that... group work in that miserable room. By 10pm we were over (assignments had to be handed in before 10.15pm). When I (really) looked to everyone else in my group I just couldn't stop laughing: everyone was looking like psychopaths!! Red eyes, messy hair... you get the picture. It was just to much. If this is how consultants live, than I don't want to do it :-) However, since that Saturday was the day previous to my birthday (hurray!) we went to some club in London to.... get rid of stress... by drinking. Again.

This last weekend I went home. Left on Thursday and came back on Sunday night. It felt so good!!! Although we've been in here for just 2 or 3 months, it feels like I've been in this school for ages!!! It's a strange paradox: time goes really quick, it just flies, but... at the same time, it feels like I've been here for one year. Anyway, going home was amazing. Not thinking on Finance, Accounting or Strategy assignments was great. Being with my family and girlfriend was even better. Saturday night I joined some friends and properly celebrated my birthday (actually, it was not only mine but also the birthday of two other frieds of mine, which means that at the end we had more than... 110 invited people! Cool!). It was good to... get rid of stress... drinking. Again.

And this is all for now. I know I promised a long time ago some photos from Tatoo. I finally have them, so here they are. It was a tremendous party. It allowed us to... get rid of some stress... drinking. [I guess I should be worried]