third week...

Wow - another week is over, and it was another really busy one (I don't think that pattern is going to change at all...). Classes are getting really detailed as we've covered the basics in the first two lectures and are now really delving in some meaty concepts. Our financial reporting instructor mentioned on Wednesday that we've covered in the first three week what would normally be covered in an entire semester of accounting!!

The lectures move at a quick speed, and I often feel like I am following along well only to get completely lost in the last fifteen minutes of the 3.5 hour lecture (I guess that's a pretty good percentage grasp, but coming out of such a long sitting being slightly confused isn't the best feeling). I think the most difficult thing we are all realizing is that there's so much reading and assignments to do for the next week, that it's really quite difficult to find the time to review the content of each lecture. But hopefully some of the basic concepts will be reinforced in the coming weeks.

Wednesday evening was very special. My housemate Bonnie and I were invited by our business school advisor to be his guests at the High Table at Christ Church (one of the oldest and most beautiful colleges here) for formal dinner. It was such an interesting process, as we started in the Senior Common Room (where the fellows hang out), and from there, the 12 or so of us dining at the high table were directed at precisely 7.20 to proceed up a really tiny and twisting stone stairway up to the hall. We came into the room and saw that all of the students were standing at their tables, waiting for us to come in and for grace to be said in Latin before we all sat down. The hall is quite amazing (for those of you who don't know, the hall dining scenes in the harry potter films), and it was fantastic to be in there. Oh, and dinner was really yummy and the conversation with the fellows was great. :)

Thursday evening there was a job search event in London that was coordinated by the Oxford Business Alumni. Unfortunately the bus down there took over 2 hours and yet still left on time, so the event was cut quite short and thus not really worth all of the effort and time to get there. A few insights from previous Said grads, but nothing we couldn't have figured out here.

Friday was busy with double lectures in finance and statistics. After seven hours of that we all needed a drink and conveniently the business school hosts a happy hour every friday to help relieve a little bit of stress... 1 GBP cocktails can't be beat. Following the happy hour I went to a dinner with some housemates at a really good Lebanese restaurant. Nina's birthday was last Wednesday, and mine is next Wednesday, so we celebrated jointly in between!