My wife threw a surprise birthday party for me last week! She got the e-mail addresses from the hiking trip. More than 12 Sloanies showed up. I was so shocked! :-)
I am amazed at how friendly people are at MIT Sloan. Orientation started last week, and we found out about our oceans and core teams. The class is divided into six oceans (Atlantic, Baltic, Caribbean, Indian, Mediterranean and Pacific), and each ocean is divided into ten teams (named after birds).
Each ocean will take the same core classes together in the first semester. My core team (T-T-T-T-Terns!) consists of a compliance officer from China (Yan), an operations research associate from Mexico (Joaquin), an industrial engineer from Detroit (Brian), a software engineer (myself), a government major who used to work at a Boston law firm (Lauren), and a MBA/KSG (Kennedy School of Government) student interested in alternative and renewable energy (Ryan). Talk about diversity!
Our pilot for the semester is Abhinav Khushraj, MBA '08, coincidently one of my co-bloggers on the MIT Sloan website. Each core team gets a pilot, a second year student who has "been there, done that". Having survived the core last year :-) Abhinav is sharing a wealth of experience with us on a range of issues such as time management, summer internships, balancing family/academic life... All in all, he is a great guy who also likes to have a lot of fun and has sort of an "infectious enthusiasm", i.e. it is hard not to get pumped up when one is around him... He was also our guide during the Warren Center Activity day during the Orientation weekend. More on that next week...
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