Heading back to the real world

Stream D's last ever lecture together.

After many years of exams, I approach the whole affair with the attitude that “It’ll probably be OK…” Odds are you’re not going to fail. And in the unlikely event you do, the world won’t end. While a good antidote to stress, that attitude causes you to push the boundaries of how ‘little’ revision you can get away with; thus inducing the stress you so wanted to avoid. And so it was this past week, as we crammed ten weeks of language classes, and various other lectures into a few days of concentrated panic.

But enough about exams. The first year of the MBA is over! – A mini-conclusion to the application process, early morning lectures and ‘extracurriculars’ that have made up the experience so far. A post on lessons-learned will come later. For now, the class is busy preparing for internships in companies and countries across the globe. Lecture rooms one minute; conference rooms the next.

While the real-world may be shock to the system, it’s ultimately what the whole course is about. Getting out there and doing something you enjoy, more effectively than you could before. Plus, work equals getting paid. And that’s nice too.
My own summer will be spent back in financial services, trekking to-and-from Canary Wharf. If anything untoward happens to the world financial system in the next few months, it wasn’t my fault…