The finals

I lugged this to the 6hr-6 paper final exam 2 weeks ago:

I couldnt think of a better way to bring 7 textbooks, notes, lunchbox and waterbottle on a bus-train-walk journey! I figured I wont be the odd one out, since alot of students were flying in specially for the exam. In the worst case, I will pretend I flew in for the exam too, haha.

The finals wasnt difficult, only very tiring having to write non stop from morning till the afternoon, with only about 1 hour for each subject. But as we all agreed, it has been very very very taxing and pressuring having to study for it, despite being an open book exam. I was completely drained out mentally after that day. Anyway, I'm really glad its over, regardless of my results.

It was fun to catch up with the rest of my 'classmates' whom we were all very familiar with online, but not in person. I had wanted to take photos, but nobody was doing that, so too bad.

But I managed to take one with Tina, who was one of my groupmates in leadership class. We worked very well together, and got the first 'A' in our class for our assignment! Would have loved to work with her for thesis, but too bad I needed to start off first. She's a Swede, but staying in the US. She is taking care of 2 kids fulltime while studying for this MBA, so I really admire her for that. And she's so pretty!

Talking about multi-tasking.. there's another classmate of mine called Naveed. I actually knew him from my signal processing class (MSc EE) during the 1st 3 months, but later I switched to MBA, whilst he continued to do MSc and taking up MBA at the same time! Then there are those who have already Masters in something, and MBA is just another add on for them. There's just so many focused people around.

Now that everyone is looking around for thesis partners and discussing about thesis topics, I will announce (almost gleefully) that I've already got my proposal approved. Its a headstart for me, but there's still a very big hurdle to cross.. sigh.. enough rest, I should get started again.