The D- Day 21 Jan 2008

Today is the start of my classes at ESMT. I await with a excitement and fear as to what the future holds. Right now, I am not thinking of life in 2009, post ESMT but the life in 2008, life in EMST. I had a small inkling yesterday - a Sunday, the day before the classes

I finally got an apartment near my school on Friday, after a week of living like a nomad in Berlin. I read the course materials and did not see any pre reads for the Monday classes. So, I spent Saurday at IKEA to find stuff to furnish my apartment. I did not buy much, there is no way that I can do that when my wife is not there. It is her RIGHT to decide the furniure and i think that is right too - she has better taste than I do and possibly that will be a good practice for the time when we do buy our own house and need to furnish it. So, most of Saurday went into furniture watching. I slept in late on Sunday, went to mass and walked around a bit to see the places. I finally decided that I should go into school and catch up on emails and a few personal stuff. Boy, am I glad!!!

The studyrooms were filled, there were people sitting and reading stuff. I thought they were out to go one up on their classmates and I was okay with that. It is better that they are better prepared so that I can learn more from them. That is when Stefano, who was sitting in my study room, started talking about something in Decision Analysis and some survey to be done. I was scared, I rushed through the course work and I realised that for the DEcision Analysis, here were a few things to be read. I quickly glanced through what I need to read and Phew! It was not much. SO, I read through Cricinfo and savored India beating Australia at WACA and read about the BCCI decision to drop Ganguly and Dravid for the ODIs against Aus and SI. That was crap! Anyways, I had my bases covered and I also did read some stuff regarding using the Excel - no, I have used Excel through all my Professional life and actually that was all thatz I used, besides Word of course during the last 4 years, but there is still lots to learn. As I was slowly finishing up and thinking about where to go for Dinner, someone walks into the room and talks about a CAse Study about Jack Welsh. Crap! what was that. It is a pre read for Organizational Behavior (OB). SHoot! I decided there is no way I was going to read this sitting here and I picked p the Case STudy and decided to go home and read.

AT Home, drifting between sleep and wakenness, I read the Harvard case study which looked like a copy paste from one of his books. There were a few questions that I needed to answer, I readt hose questions and just above them was another Pre Read, Chapter 1 from 'Essentials of Organizational Behavior' by Stephen P. Rbbins and Timothy A. Judge (Robbins). SHoot! I had left the book at school. SO, Now, I was fully awake! I quickly analysed the Jack Welsch Case Study and set the alarm for 6 am . I did not need the alarm to wake up and rushed through my morning chores and was in School by 7:15 am. Picked up the book, fearing the unknown - maybe 40 pages to read. Thankfully hat was the introducory chapter and did no take much time to read and you can see, gave me enough time to type in this blog.

So, I start my classes in 30 minutes. Ihave 5 course in the first module
MicroEconomics - Michal Grajek
Organizational Behavior - Konstantin Korotov
Decision Making - Francis de Vericourt
Introduction to marketing - Erik Schlie
Accounting - Jochen Zimmermann

Wish me luck!