I'll be honest with you. I've checked out mentally. The workload in Term 3 is significantly more than Term 2 and a bit more than Term 1. On top of that, I still have initiatives and deliverables for the Consulting Club and Benchmarking Task Force. Important items, but I'm struggling to get things done now that the weather is getting better and I actually have something to look forward to for the summer. My proposals to program management to cancel all classes and let us enjoy the rest of the term have gone unheeded. Damn them.
So what shall we talk about today?
Let's start off with some food stuff.
The "Asians" got together for dinner one Friday night to congratulate a newly married couple and to say farewell to one my classmate's spouse. We went to La Paradeta near La Sagrada Familia. The concept is that you point at some seafood that you'd like prepared and then they cook it for you. Just in case you've eaten lead paint chips as a child they even have a nifty little diagram.
Now that's a lean process. I feel like I'm gonna turn into those typical MBA graduates spouting all kinds of useless buzz words. Synergies! Cross functional development! Balanced Scorecard!
Anyways, it's pretty cool. Reminds me of the restaurants in Fisherman's Wharf in SF or King's Harbor in Redondo Beach.
Would you like to see food? Well then onto to the seafood.....pictures.
The food was quite delicious and most important to a starving MBA student, cheap.
The ESADE MBASA (MBA Student Association) held a town hall meeting outlining the various initiatives and plans for the upcoming year. They didn't need to entice people to attend but they did anyways by offering free food. Thank you MBASA. There's definitely a lot on MBASA's plate as they're an ambitious bunch but they've managed to get some awesome things put together and have gotten the ball rolling in cementing the school's status as a top tier B-school. Sometimes I feel like I'm at a start-up because the school basically let's us run with our ideas and supports us to some degree but we lack funding and resources to get everything going. Sole thing keeping everything from falling apart is our ambition and the thought that since we're essentially forever tied to ESADE to make the most of it.
April 23 was La Diada de St. Jordi or St. George's Day and we celebrated it Catalan style. I've never actually heard of the legend of St. George but apparently he was a bad-ass saint who slayed dragons and princesses, if you know what I mean. If you don't know what I mean, he killed dragons and wooed fair ladies with his mighty sword. He was Catholic so it was all for show though. Anyways, in Catalunya women get roses and men get books because April 23rd is also National Book Day.
Shakespeare and Cervantes died on April 23rd (Julian and Gregorian calendar April 23rd). Anyways, I heard two funny reasons as to why men get books.
- Only men are smart enough to read so that's why they get books.
- Women want men to get smarter so that's why they get books.
Equally sexist.
That piece of bread is just what they traditionally eat on St. Jordi Day. As with anything Catalan they had to remind us, through the use of Catalan flag motif, that it was a Catalan tradition.
The afternoon of St. Jordi a couple of classmates and I went to this bar called MonVinic. Supposedly considered one of the top 5 wine bars in the world. To go along with that outrageous claim was this overkill of a "wine list". I guess it makes sense because of their ever changing wine list but it still seems douche-y. Kinda like personalized license plates on supercars. Because its a 200K car you can kinda justify it but at the same it's douchetastic.
Today I had an Entrepreneurship brainstorming session. The brainstorming session was to come up with our innovative business idea that would be presented to the class. This presentation would essentially be our final exam and the business idea would carry forward for our next Entrepreneurship class. My teammate was kind enough to invite us over to his apartment, which had an amazing terrace.
What happens when you combine 70 degree weather, beautiful outdoor terrace, beers, wine and other snacks?
A potentially awesome business plan.
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