First week of orientation...DONE!

I didn't think Orientation Week would be so exhausting but it was. My god. Within my last post I described in fairly great detail our first day, which primarily consisted of an introduction to the LEAD program.

The 2nd and 3rd day was spent offsite at La Mola Hotel and Conference Center about an hour outside of the city.

We were warned time and time again that the bus would leave EXACTLY at 8am. Of course this being Spain it left at 8:35am. Nothing ever happens on time in this country. One must know the concept of  "Spain time".

So the entire 2nd day was spent on Career Services, the coaching and mentoring available within the Career Services department and a variety of workshops on how to improve your CV. What I realized thanks to those workshops was that my CV sucked. Like really really sucked. The 2nd day at La Mola was our Team Effective Seminar. Thanks to the bright, beautiful and humid Barcelona weather this event was exhausting but totally fun. 

We were basically told to build a racecar with the limited number of supplies available to us. Design, construction and procurement of supplies was to stress teamwork. Here's our completed car. Looks fast doesn't it?

The car was powered by three person-power engine. Here we are putting the finishing touches.

Throughout the orientation week we've been utilizing the ESADE Forum for keynote speeches and presentations. The time in between some of the presentations was spent networking with our classmates. Getting to know my classmates has been really fun. You indirectly get to perfect your 30 second elevator pitch because the conversation usually starts with:

1) Your name
2) Country/City of origin
3) Pre-MBA background
4) Post-MBA aspirations

So next week classes start. It's go time.