Telling and selling my story

Today we had another one of the classes that are part of the CPSD (oh my... I can't remember what that is short for... something to do with career skills), called 'Telling and Selling your Story'. I loved it! The gist of the class was that stories are an important way to effectively network and effectively pitch yourself in interviews. I tell stories all the time (evidence: this blog!), so it wasn't like I needed much prompting on the actual telling of the stories, but it's nice to get some feedback and listen to my teammates. I've said it before and I'll say it again: I lucked out with my team. They are supportive and give great feedback, and there's a real open atmosphere, which is perfect for experimenting with ideas and in this case stories.

Some more elaboration on our study groups (which raised a few questions last time round I noticed). We are put together in teams of 7 to maximise the diversity (or some say 'conflict'). London Business School strives to put at least one native speaker in every group and have the backgrounds and nationalities (and personalities I suppose) as different as possible. Sometimes groups work out well, sometimes they're nightmares.

Other things that are going on at school: tomorrow night the Media Club will introduce themselves to new students (I'm definitely going and will report back), Jack Welch is coming to speak on Thursday (sadly enough I didn't win any tickets in the lottery so I can't see him live) and on Thursday night there'll be a clubs-fair, where all the student clubs will present themselves. For more information on the various clubs around, see this webpage.

On a more personal note, one of the highlights of the past couple of days has been the arrival of a big box sent to me by my parents which contained a few of my dear and precious books, some more towels (can never have too many towels) and two boxes of 'hagelslag' which looks like cake decoration, but which the dutch actually put on their sandwiches. Wooohoooo!