Thanks Ian. For a second, I was thinking "he couldn't possibly be going for a run that late now, back in the real world. Must be a draft post from London." Glad to see that you're carrying on the late night tradition!

Syed, I think we're all in the same relative position, that this first residency was to test the waters of what the program would really be like. I think I went out too much, you think you spent too much time stressing. In either case, there's definitely some make-up to be done! On the bright side, I'm glad the "test residency" could be on Accounting, where I'm not too strong anyway. I'd be more disappointed if I did poorly in a class that I should be good at, like Econ or Stat.

Heck, I wasn't even out socializing and I failed the mid term miserably. Looking back I would rather have been outside having fun than studying for an exam I was going to fail. I'm going to have to put my life on hold while I get a hold on accounting.

2am today... and then i actually did go out for a run, at around 3am... got back around 4... and it's 130 in the afternoon and i just woke up... wtf!?

i personally would prefer to talk to other people and hear their war stories, it's like a living laboratory where everyone is a walking case study in something. i'm sure we can get more insider stuff out of people who've worked in good companies, and in bad corporations and know what it's like on the inside.

in any event, i'm sure dubai will be less hectic... ok, well, i'm not sure... i hope.

When did you write this?

Looking back on the first residency, I absolutely agree with you. While I'll spend a bit more time in Dubai studying, I don't regret the non-stop networking that I did while in London. I learned more about the world from our classmates (including you with all the talk of chicken feet and tendons!) than I could've ever learned from reading a book.

Yes, I'm in the program to learn the technical stuff, but it's the outside class discussions that will be worth the tuition cost.