Leamington and Pizza

Singean insisted, and we broke out from campus yesterday, to Leamington Spa. It was a very enjoyable evening with a very enjoyable group of people, we deserved the break.

From 071005 Leamin...

From 071005 Leamin...

Pitty that we underrated the taxi fare and things got a bit more expensive than they should. But this is our learning cost, so it it is accounted for.

Best consulting firms to work for

Well, Indian Blogger, from Queen's MBA published again a really interesting link and earned his space in the MBA blog links section of this site at the right.
Bain & Company is considered the best consulting company to work for by this magazin.
Good to know, as we are having our first company event this afternoon. And it will be about consulting.

The oficial class photo

Now you can see the professional results. It is a good pic, lots of energy.

New professor of enterprise

I think that I will choose Enterprise courses for my electives in the next terms. But it won't be possible for me to take advantage of this new teacher here in Warwick. But sounds promising, nonetheless.

A hub of activity
Early in the summer, a whirlwind of activity arrived at the Centre for Small & Medium Sized Enterprises in the form of Roger Mumby-Croft, who has taken up the post of Professor of Enterprise. ...

He has already spoken at WBS Alumni Association events on business sustainability, and is planning a series of Start-Up Weekends for alumni on how to start a business and make it successful. ...

On the teaching side, he hopes to create more enterprise education modules for undergraduates. He's already taught two MBA electives, where he achieved resoundingly high student feedback scores. ...

Read more.

Indian humour?

My colleague Deepak draw this during the class today. I don't know which one, but might have been the Organisational Behaviour. I know that one of my challenges will be to stay awake during certain classes.


I would link to his blog, but he asked me not to, due to SEO reasons. I know that I am having lots of fun with my first contacts to the Indian culture.

High tech infrastructure

WBS does offer us a great learning and studying infrastructure, with a completely new building, great integration of computers and projectors in the class rooms, study group rooms with computers and a big number of computers, among other features.

The picture above shows the two class rooms with individual computers. They have a movable dividing wall which has been opened to transform both spaces into one big lecture room with about 70 workstations and 2 projection screens. Pretty impressive, I would say.
And I have yet to go to the university's learning grid, which is supposed to be this high tech as well.

Societies

We do have strong students' unions in Brazilian universities, and they do support or host a fair amount of groups and clubs. But I haven't seen nothing similar to what we have available here at Warwick University: 250 societies and 70 sports clubs! One gets dizzy just to think about all the possibilities and how easy it will be to spend far too much time doing fun stuff instead of preparing for classes.
Well, to help sort out what to do and when, here a bit of useful information:

• The societies fair
  At the Students' Union
  Wednesday the 3rd of October to Friday the 5th
  
  
• An introduction to societies and clubs
  http://warwicksu.com/news/article/Sign-up-for-Societies-and-Sports-clubs/
  
  
• The societies portal
  http://warwicksu.com/societies/

I promise that I will join only one. Maybe two. Maybe... it is tempting!