Choices

It's the season of choices again. Come to think about it, at LBS it's always the season for choices ;-)
This week's menu of choices are exchange for starters, summer term electives for mains and job offers for dessert. And even with my love of desserts, I haven't yet got any job offers to choose from but plenty of classmates have. So I'm stuck with choosing exchange schools and choosing electives.

One of the reasons I choose to come to London was its large portfolio of exchange schools that LBS partners with. Yesterday was the deadline for the applications and I handed in mine. The process works as follows: you can pick up to three schools off the total list, but you can't go to schools in a country that you've lived in as an adult for more than three years. Then you write an essay of 350 words each giving reasons why that particular school, hand them in and cross your fingers. These essays are read by a panel of judges and on March 10th, we'll hear which school we can go to. I've applied to the maximum number of three schools, and although I'm tempted to reveal which, I won't, since I'm afraid I'll jinx the process.

Second choice we're faced with: electives in summer term. As of next term, the serious elective taking starts (I'm already taking a small elective this term, see last post). The most popular I think are Finance 2 (and for the attentive readers out there, you can probably guess that taking that would equate to academic suicide for me, so that's out) and Understanding Entrepreneurial Management (which I think I'll take). There are also some Marketing courses, and Advanced Strategy on offer for first years. I'm still considering how much is too much, I don't want to overstretch, but on the other hand be well prepared for my internship.

Some good news to share: KV's got an internship!!!!! Well done, dude! I'm so happy for you :-)

And one more thing to share, one of my classmates named Arnab takes the most amazing pictures and puts them on his website. He also writes a blog which you can find here. I've been bugging him about allowing me to link to his stuff for ages, and he's finally agreed. Well worth checking out.

[edit 1. Yes. I know we're supposed to say London Business School instead of LBS. I'm too lazy today.]