Saturday, December 16, 2006

6 in 4, pub golf and Ryanair

Living life on the fast lane...now I actually know what this really means!

I took 6 exams in 4 days:
Monday:
-Financial Reporting: harder than expected, but should be able to pass
-Decision Science: definite pass
Tuesday:
-Developing Effective Managers (DEM): pass, but you never know for DEM?!
Wednesday:
-Strategy: pretty sure pass
-Managerial Economics (I almost sh*# my pants before this one): way easier than expected, pass
Thursday:
-Finance I: I have a funny feeling about this one (got all the formulas right, but made some mistakes in my calculations), although I'm usually really good in Finance

Taking exams in a suit, white bow tie and the gown was a quite unusual feeling, but...that's Oxford, it's different/special/weird/or whatever you want to call it, it's all that. The weirdness of Oxford was also obvious when the exams started. Everything is very formal, same procedure every day and the desks are unbelievably small. Besides that, because of another tradition we wore flowers for each of the exams. For their first one, students wear a white carnation - virgin-like. After being bloodied by the first exams students wear a pink carnation from then on for every exam.
As soon as we got done with our last exam on Thursday, the champagne bottles popped out in the car park - what a relief, it was over (for the time being)!

About an hour later some 40 of us, all dressed up as golfers (or what we thought golfers look like), met at the pub "Cape of good hope" for a pub game called "Pub Golf". Teams of 4 go out on a pub crawl and have to drink a certain drink (beer, bitter, water, coke, whiskey, cider,...) at every hole (pub). The jury determines a par (sips) for every drink and after 9 holes a winning team is determined. It was very funny, lots of hole-in-ones were scored and in the end we decided that calculating the winner's score was too difficult and just kept on partying.

After sleeping in today and nursing my hangover, I did my chrsitmas shopping and just packed my stuff. My flight back to Germany leaves from London tomorrow morning at 6, which means i have to leave oxford at 1:30 tonight (bus trip, check in time restrictions, etc.). My suitcase must weigh about 30 tons and Ryanair will probably charge me 1,000 Euros over-weight fee.
Well, after having Ryanair's business concept in a case study, flying with it make it a completely different experience - well, no it doesn't, I just had to find a way to mention that I analysed Ryanair ;o)

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