Ready, Set, Abroad
After a long long 48-hour day of travel back home (yes, one day), I’m finally back on the right-coast. I’ve come back to messages, photos, funny voicemails, and great stories from my classmates who are now abroad in various countries - so much so that I can hardly remember where they were all going (sorry Tara). I hope to share mine as soon as I get the pictures and video off of my camera.
In catching up on some blog reading, I ran across an entry from my friend Adrian who summed up the semester quite nicely.
Some interesting facts that speak for our past in the program:
- our class mates total is 95
- unfortunately 4 of them left the class already
- 13 different nationalities: US, India, China, Bosnia, Germany, France, Belgium, Romania, Hungary, Peru, Mexico, Thailand, Barbados
- 9 different tracks that we will all be involved in (calculating Mexican and Spanish as two different ones)
- we took a total of 13 different classes, taught by 16 professors which come from 4+1 distinct countries (Explanation: India, US, Hong Kong, Bulgaria and Boston
- 25 credits worth of studies
- 9 physical text books, 1 online text book and millions of cases from our friends from Harvard
- attended 4 CEO speeches (Wachovia lectures)
- eat 2 times per week for free at the International House of Students right across the street
- we spent about $70 worth of parking tickets in 5 months
- estimated 264 bottles/cans of beer consumed by us
- estimated 76(Anand) and 23(Adrian) Starbucks caffeine drinks purchased
- 24,000 actual minutes spend together in class, paying attention
To read more from Adrian, visit here. It is amazing to consider what we have accomplished in such a short time. I will see Adrian in a few days but will miss many of the people who I may not see again in the next two years. I predict many trips around the world to satisfy the need to keep the bonds that we’ve created in the last 9 months. Good luck everyone and safe travels.
