By Randy Zwitch - July 2nd, 2010  Category: CCMBA 2010D| Residency 5: St. Petersburg  Without any text to help distinguish this scene as St. Pete's, this could just as easily have gone in my London residency photos! I’ve finally made it to St. Petersburg after my protracted flight schedule…and after 30 hours being awake, I’m really starting to feel the pain!
I started off early this morning, leaving for the Philly airport around 11 a.m. From there it was to Newark, which was delayed 30 minutes, but luckily it only takes 30 minutes as well! From Newark it was to Dusseldorf, Germany, which takes about 6.5 hours. When that flight landed, it became 6 a.m. German time. Fast forward through 5 hours of downtime in Germany, then it was finally on to Russia. 4.5 hours later, some rush hour traffic, check-in…that puts me at 30 continuous hours of being awake. That’s probably a record, I’m not one to stay awake for long periods of time!
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By Randy Zwitch - June 30th, 2010 Category: CCMBA 2010D| Residency 5: St. Petersburg This guy! (Really? Stooping to old man jokes?)
In less than 24 hours, I’ll start the journey to St. Petersburg, and I’m as un-prepared as always. You’d think by now, the last overseas residency for us Americans, I’d have done a better job of managing my time leading up to the plane flight. As it turns out, procrastination just couldn’t wait!
I got in to work today to clean-up any last minute issues, and now I’m home enjoying the beautiful day in Philadelphia. After the latest heat wave, it’s good to get a taste of what St. Petersburg is going to be everyday…low 70s during the day and cool at night. But that enjoyment is only going to go so far, as I still have to:
- Do laundry, specifically making sure I have clean “business attire” (I wore flip-flops today to work!)
- Pack 75 pounds of crap into two or fewer bags
- Cut the grass (or, pay someone else to cut the grass)
- Finish the Accounting pre-reading (two more case studies)
- Read all of the GMI pre-reading (or at least make printouts)
- Read all of the Operations Management pre-reading (or make printouts)
- Do CCL pre-reading
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By Randy Zwitch - June 23rd, 2010 Category: CCMBA 2010D| Residency 5: St. Petersburg You can call me 3Bитц рэнди вилльям…or R6NDI VILL98M VZVIT3 for short. I don’t know what to even make of that…Cyrillic, you look so much like the alphabet I am used to, but then you have to add in all the backwards and squiggly characters.
Now that semester 4 is in the bag, I guess it’s time to start getting ready for Semester 5. Even though this semester’s pre-reading arrived last Tuesday (less than 12 hours after Finals were due, which is quite the mean trick by Fuqua), I only got around to opening the box this Monday. Although each successive pre-reading seems to be lighter than the previous one, it doesn’t seem like the semesters are getting any easier. All I have to say is, look out textbooks, I might even take the shrink wrap off of you this week!
Actually, lets say one more thing: Not.ready.for.another.semester. Heck, I’m not even mentally ready to travel. I don’t want to say it’s good that St. Petersburg is the last overseas trip I’ll be taking as part of this program, but having to go from Philly to Newark to Dusseldorf, Germany to St. Petersburg isn’t going to be a great experience. Unless of course, I get a beer and a bratwurst in the airport in Germany. Maybe if I’m lucky, Lufthansa will serve beer and brats on the plane flight as well; if so, then I can say that I’m excited for Semester 5!
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