Second week of London Business School

And I've run out of catchy titles for posts...sorry for that, I'll try and be more creative next time.

Some excellent posts by other 007 bloggers on their experiences, check out KV and Futureguru's entries, which I think give a good view of what London Business School is like so far.
For me personally I've enjoyed the second week so far which kicked off with me running the Hydroactive Women's 5k last Sunday in Hyde Park, together with 22,000 odd other women, all for charity. It was so inspiring seeing all these women rally together.
Monday my stream (Dream Stream) had the day off which I spent hunting around London trying to get practical stuff sorted out.
Today was our first day of classes (although not proper classes, core courses don't start til October). First up was Managing Organisational Behaviour, which required us to fill out (yet even more) surveys, which I thought was really interesting. This was followed by an afternoon CV workshop, which I thought was really good and helpful, albeit a bit densely packed with information. I don't know how I managed to write a decent cv so far without all this knowledge!

So far things have worked out extremely well. I love my housemates, our flat is great (9th floor with great views over London), the lectures and sessions have been interesting, and I'm looking forward to the start of GLAM (Global Leadership Assesment for Managers... or something like that) which should teach us more about leadership and the different leadership styles. One thing I'm less looking forward to is Statistics (aaaaaahhhhhh). Ah well, I guess I'll just have to grit my teeth and get on with it. Everyone has said that we'll be busy the first term and I think I might be getting a preview already. There are so many things to do before term has even started yet! The first clubs are starting up, reading for classes has started, thinking about what I want to do when I grow up (if I grow up??) has started and I've taken the career leader test. This test was devised at Harvard and is used by a lot of MBA students worldwide to find out what they'd like to do. My results are pretty bang on the money, I must say.

Other things that I liked so far:
* free gym in the basement of the fitness centre, which offers personalised advice, fitness classes (for a nominal fee), and massages (woohooo!) for a nominal fee;
* library: the library's fab. All the stuff you could want or need, both online and hard copy. Plus very friendly staff;
* careers service offers a free career coaching service which I'll definitely use.

Things I don't like so far:
This is going to sound awfully mushy but not a whole lot. There's a few people that I could do without but other than that no negatives to report yet.

Wanted to share a few websites with you:
* Monobo is still in beta, but useful already I think. It's a website for MBA's by MBA's from several top schools. Tons of information on there.
* This page talks about using Backpack (about which I've raved before) for taking class notes.
* If you love art and are visiting the New York Museum of Modern Art soon, check out these MP3 tours.
* Fastcompany pointed me towards this site about ways to generate ideas. If you can't find a way that works for you on this site, it won't exist!