Hey, where'd the OwenBloggers go???

Some of you might have noticed that the Blog has been kind of quiet the last week or so--- some of you might even be asking "why"? Rest assured, we're all still here; it's just that dreaded time of year known as "finals". 

For those of you who aren't fully acquainted with the Owen MBA curriculum, it work something like this:

We are on the MOD system, meaning our classes are in quarters, and we typically have seven weeks of classes (two classes a week, fourteen sessions or so...) followed by one single day of "study" and then finals.  For those of you who didn't go back and re-read that last sentence, I'll assume you didn't pay much attention, so I'll say it again: one SINGLE day's break between classes and the first final exam.  You're working full tilt for seven weeks, handing in the lion's share of deliverables the last week of the course, and then BOOM--- finals are a day away...  I've never understood why we don't give at least a weekend until finals begin, but that's the way it is.  So if you don't hear from the OwenBloggers crew for the next week, don't send out the search party, they're OK (or as OK as you can be with a corporate valuation final hanging over your head...).

In Sam's last official act as Editor of OwenBloggers.com, he asked us to talk about a few things, one of them being what our Holiday break plans were.  I remember thinking  back to pre-MBA wondering if students actually got time off or not.  Well, yes we do, and at the same time, no we don't.  Our last day of finals is the 20th and class starts back the 7th.  Technically, that gives us a little over two weeks off.  The reason I say we really don't get all that time off is because many firms are still conducting internship/fulltime interviews and many students are traveling to conferences and career forums.  So, depending on who you are, you either have 2+ weeks off to travel and rest or, perhaps, just a few days here and there.  This year I luckily don't have anything to bring me back early, so my wife and I will be in Connecticut for a week and then I'll have another week off to recoup before my penultimate MOD. 

It scares me to death thinking that my MBA career is nearing an end.  I cannot express how quickly this has all flown by--- there is simply no way to tell you how strange it feels to look back and realize a year and a half has gone by in what seems like three week's time...