LBS Open Weekend

Rats! MBAEurope beat me to it, he's already got a description up off the LBS Open Weekend, including some great pics of the school building.... ;-)
So now I have to come up with some original thoughts about the weekend. I'll take sketchy, impressionistic approach once again, apologising in advance for that.

People
I met the most amazing people. Not only fellow MBA 2007 blogger MBAEurope (yes ladies, the rumour is true, LBS is filled with handsome men ;-), but also a host of other people, who all had interesting stories (and in the process made me feel rather plain...). Wow. I'd heard stories before, but I never realised it would be like this. Amazing. I so look forward to getting to know a lot of these people a lot better.

Official stuff
Of course, an Open Weekend wouldn't be complete without the official speeches, tour round the school and trial lecture. What struck me was that everyone was making a real effort of welcoming us, everything was organised pretty well and the current students did a great job of organising the 'day in a life of a student'. What particularly struck me was the fact that LBS is increasing it's elective portfolio to 80 courses next year (25% increase), and that they've changed the pre-program in response to comments of MBA2006's. They really are serious about improving the school (not that it's not good now, but there's always room for improvement) and all it's got to offer and really listen to the students. Impressive. I like.

Goody bag
As everyone who's a regular reader of my blog knows, the Miss N likes gifts. Highlights of the goody bag: cool t-shirt (special women's shape, nice), Lonely Planet "London" (Tony Wheeler is one of the LBS alumns), lots of pens, notebooks etc (always handy). Pretty good as goody bags go!

Overall impressions
Oh, my God, I'm going to business school. With a lot of interesting, and terribly smart people. I can't wait!! Bring on August, baby. I'm ready.