The midterm went off without a hitch, I think. Luckily for me I am a strong believer in the Dombrowski Deferral: 'I do not talk about exams after the exam because no good can possibly come from the conversation.' When you think about it, Nick is really right. At the moment I leave the testing facility I am the most confident in my score - even if I think I missed a few points, these are finite and known. In talking with other people, though, even if I get some confirmation of what I did correctly, I haven't added to my internal score-estimate. Conversely if some doubt is cast on my work, the internal tally drops. The crux of the issue is that you might as well believe the best as long as possible, so why is everybody asking me what I thought or what I did on #2?
Classes at Ross seem muted today by events past and future, although people really don't seem to be in a huge hurry to bail. It's a strange time in part because many international students are essentially taking a three day break from classes and little else, while some national students have families here and will stay. The actual traveling numbers of MBAs are fairly low, which nullifies the urgent sense of packing and impending travel that Webb breaks always had.
Tuesday, November 22, 2005