rough days...

The days from the 11th-14th are a complete blur… I think I got a total of six hours of sleep over four nights. We had two major assignments due on Monday and Tuesday of that week, each to be submitted to the Examination Schools by noon on the Monday. The finance assignment was only worth 20% of our grade, but given the amount of time we all spent working on it, it should have taken the place of our exam! I still can’t believe that we had to spend more hours on that class the following week. The assignment involved evaluating Interbrew, a beer company, doing a corporate valuation estimating free cash flows, and an IPO estimation.

The assignment due on the Tuesday was a final paper for our International Business and Global Governance class, for which we were able to choose from nine questions. I chose to write my paper on the implications of Google and Yahoo and similar companies operating in China and their political and corporate social responsibility obligations. It was interesting to research.

And as if all of that in a few short days wasn’t enough, on so little sleep, my NBD team also had to present our project to a panel of venture capitalists on the Tuesday afternoon at 4pm. We were all half asleep, but somehow rallied for the presentation and it come off really, really well! They all said that they would expect it to work and that if they were actual VCs and not there for an academic exercise, they would invest. One mentioned she was looking forward to visiting out store in Canary Wharf next year! Go Burritos!! Now we just need to write it all up into a cohesive business plan by April 16th…

After exams, of course, now time to study for those, but maybe after a little bit of catch-up sleep!