My team is gr8!

Today's class (yes, I know it's Saturday, occasionally we have classes and exams on Saturday) we had a great class: for UGM (Understanding General Management) we did a simulation for a start-up airline to see what would happen if we changed any of the 5 metrics we were given to toy around with. And it was great! Not only did our team work as a team which was great fun, but we won! After thinking up a strategy (which we then ditched when it turned out not to work, but according to the professor having a strategy is better than having no strategy) and a bit of fiddling with the program, our shareprice went up from $2 to $1000 dollars in ten years.... if only real life worked that way :-)

A bit more about our teams: each team or study group has 6 or 7 people in it, who work together on a number of assignments in the next year. In total about 30 to 40% of your grades are based on group work, so it's very important to work together. We have quite a mixed bunch with regards to backgrounds and nationalities, but the chemistry is there and it works! Plus it always helps when you've got something to celebrate (in our case today we won a magnum bottle of very nice champagne). The study group will remain in this configuration for the next year, and you can't divorce them.

I'm developing a bit of a cold.... this is not good. Let's hope it stays this manageable and doesn't go into fullblown cold mode.