Like a Virgin

Only just recovering from Bill Clinton's visit a few days ago (which I didn't get to go to, sadly enough and my friend who promised to write something hasn't delivered his blogpost yet), and today we received news of the next big speaker coming onto campus: Sir Richard Branson. He'll be here on April 24th, keep your fingers crossed I'll get tickets to see him!

The previous first week of term were pretty relaxed, allowing that warm, fuzzy, just-got-back-from-nowheresville feeling, easing me into the following nine weeks of franticness. This term it's different. It started off alright in the first couple of days, but yesterday and today I got swept away on the tide of busy-ness. There's some work left over to be done from last term's Adventures in Management Innovation elective, and several of the extra-curricular activities I'm involved in kicked off for a new season. Add to that a load of 5 courses (with the 6th starting in a few weeks), a Pisco Sour party with my studygroup, several other social engagements (ok, ok, an engagement every single night of this week) and you've got a Miss N that is in desperate need of putting her feet up and have a stiff whisky tonight.

But before I go home and take my shoes off, I justed wanted to tell you guys about one of my electives this term called Understanding Entrepreneurial Management, which is one of the most popular electives with about two-thirds of first year's taking it. It's sort of a Entrepreneurship 101, a safe kiddies pool to dip your entrepreneurial toe into, to see if you like entrepreneurship and have got the stomach for it. I pitched my idea yesterday in the first class, and now I have to find 5 like-minded individuals to develop it with me. And it's getting me all excited. I'm looking forward to the rest of the course. The book we're using is by one of the Entrepreneurship professors at School, a really great guy called John Mullins, and the book is called The New Business Road Test: What Entrepeneurs and Executives Should Do Before Writing a Business Plan (see here for a description on Amazon).