Half done

Yep, first year is over. Technically, I still have one more exam to do next Friday for Advanced Marketing Strategy. But it feels like holidays now. I am back in Portugal for one week and will be back in London just before the exam.

Man, this is such a strange feeling. One year... done! I have more gray hairs now then ever (which is kind of worrying...) And I feel that the second year will be very different. It will be a different stage of this MBA adventure. The hectic and intense first year experiences are behind us, now. My beloved Autumn stream A, those crazy first 4 months, Tatoo, meeting everyone for the first time at the Windsor Castle (the local pub), Santa Claus pub crawl, MBAT, the basketball team, my flatmates, falling asleep reading accounting books... It's time to give the place to the 08's. I just hope they'll enjoy it as much as I did.

Well, enough nostalgia. Good news! I got a job! And it's media related, so I'm happy! I'm gonna be doing new media market analysis for a big UK telecoms operator. I can't wait to start! Well, actually... yes, I can wait. Let me enjoy these sunny days in Portugal :-) Then we'll talk about the job.

The last week I finally did my shadowing project. And it was very interesting! The guy I shadowed was very helpful but, more important than that, he's working for EMI Music! I mean, I have a huge background in music (my engineering and MBA education together are approximately half the years I spent studying music). Working for a company like EMI would be amazing (apart from Spice Girls, Robbie Williams and things alike... well, at least Placebo are in EMI). I had the opportunity to meet the Head of Global Strategy for EMI and, as I said to my shadowing guy, that's the man I have to call for a job :-) Expect a call/email in the next weeks, dude!

On another note, things for Columbia are looking good. Visa paperwork is being taken care of, and housing is already confirmed. I guess I've said this a thousand times already but... I can't wait to go to NY!!! :-)

Now is time to work a bit on my AMS final paper, before going to the beach!

PS1: I know I promised some MBAT photos. And since I'm very lazy to upload my own photos, here's a great link. This is the website of our in-house 'unnoficial' photographer. Ben is an MBA2006 and maniac about photography. He took more than 4000 thousand photos during MBAT! :-) His website also has photos from many other LBS events. It's a fantastic website to get a feel of what the LBS MBA is like. Enjoy it.

PS2: The photo at the beginning of this post is of the MBAT winning LBS team. Can you find me there? ;-)

LBS Killer

How to suddenly make 150+ MBAs go to school and attend all classes? Just create a killing game and make them use funny guns all the time!

Man, this is getting crazy. This week we started playing LBS killer (check the blog). Each one of us now have a gun like the one shown above and a target to kill. Of course, as every professional assassin, our kills cannot have witnesses. And believe me, this thing is reaching paranoid levels! :-) You can see everyone holding this orange piece of chinese plastic. I can't even go to my locker alone, afraid of being shot in my back! I already did my first kill. But there's some real serial killers out there with 4 or more kills already. They even follow targets to their home! :-)

Aaahhh! These bright young MBA minds. The next generation managers of the world!

Funny way to end our first year...

Joke of the year!

Let me introduce you the little fellow in the above picture. His name is Tomas, the Toro. I met him last weekend, in Paris, during MBAT. He caught my attention because he had this sad look. He was not happy. And it wasn't from the hangover. So, why was he so sad? Well, he was IESE's mascot... and he was not enjoing it!

Things got worse when he knew that LBS had won the tournament. And then... there was light! He looked at the LBS guys and thought "that's where I should be!". He wanted to be part of that great team! Man, how he wanted to come to London!

Well, apparently he managed to escape IESE's tight control and authority (no one knows how...) and joined the LBS team on the Eurostart, back to London. And there he was, this last Thursday, having some pints at Sundowners, partying like an animal (well... he is an animal) proudly showing is brand new ID badge! Toro is in London now and... wonder of wonders, he is in the MBA 2008 class! Welcome, mate!

Of course, as a bright and proud student ;-) he has just created his own blog, where he will report all his adventures and travels while at LBS. I bet this will be a famous blog. Mainly in Barcelona.

PS: I still haven't forget the MBAT pics I promised to post. But between interviews, classes and studying for final exams, my free time has been close to none. Oh, and I will be DJing in this Saturday's party! :-) Can't wait for that!