Exam time - thanks god

the first three month are nearly over and most of the exams are done. Monday we have to submit our last case, Thursday is the final exam and the week after we have to submit our business plan project.

I am pretty happy if the core is over. It's pretty hard to find the motivation to study if you are convinced that most of the content is useless for managing a business.
My favourite example at the moment: Inventory calculation in Supply Chain Management - we have wasted about 10 hours to learn how calculate inventory.
Our guest speaker this week, Clive Beddoe, CEO of Westjet, summarized that in one sentence: "pay late, collect early"! It's so easy!

Anyway, the exams need to be done and even useless content needs to be learnt. Consequently, I spend most of my time in the library which is actually not so bad, as the view is pretty nice:

and... you see right... the white is snow. It has been snowing quite a bit this week. All mountains are covered with snow now. Whistler and Cypress already opened the slopes.

Another highlight was the hockey game I attended yesterday. True canadian culture...

 

tired of studying? take a break!

That's what we did.  We, that are 13 Canadians, a Spanish folk and a German dude who have all one thing in common: being tired of their MBA study's. So what to do? We had a nice road trip to Cannon Beach, Oregon, USA. It's only 6,5 hours driving from Vancouver - if it runs smooth - if the Spanish folk and the German dude need an extra treatment of the US boarder control then it takes longer. Anyway, it was in any case worth it. The beaches of Oregon are pretty amazing. And in addition, to spend three nights with so many nice people together in a big house including outside hot tub and pool table is a very unique experience. I guess, everybody came very energized back from the trip.

Please enjoy some nice pictures here:

What else: My Movember donation counter is at $100 now. Many thanks for your donations! 

Enjoy pictures of my moustache at my new page: http://munich2vancouver.blogspot.com/p/my-mo.html

Please move on with donating: It's really a great opportunity to do something good!

November = Movember = Moustache = Donation

In Canada, we have the initiative that men let growth there moustache throughout the month November to raise money for the Prostate Cancer Foundation. By now, there are about 50 guys in our class looking like teens with their first fluffy beard - pretty funny. But let's move on to the interesting part: your contribution. As I do this not for fun (ok - not only), I kindly request  your donation for the Prostate Cancer Foundation of Canada as comment for this initiative.

You can donate through my personal Movember page:
 http://ca.movember.com/mospace/866656/

From now on, I will post for each 50 new bugs a new picture of my growing moustache as a little incentive for you.

Tomorrow, I will have my first exam: Accounting. It is crazy how fast time is passing. But there are still four busy weeks to go, no reason to become lazy. But the motivation is good, following up my last post: 

1) I had a great weekend with Andrea in New York. Was a perfect break of all the studying!

2) The MacBook Air is a fantastic working tool.

3) There is even more snow in the mountains by now.