Graphics make everything easier to understand. I'm always blogging about how busy the MBA life is. Let's reconcile those two positions with my February 2006 Outlook calendar:
Over the past semester I've been slowly learning the life of the evening college student. My OMS605 operations class has a bunch of evening MBAs in it and I really don't know how they manage... they arrive in Ann Arbor dressed for work, toting ID badges and safety glasses and take-out food. They spend their weekends slaving over the school work that we do during the day all week, and somehow manage the stress and the drive time for years to make it happen. My cousin Scott is up to the same thing: professional engineer by day, engineering student by night, and I am not sure how it is possible to keep that up for a sustained amount of time.
Got my day off to an active start with a rousing best-of-three hoops tourney with some other MBAs over at the IM building. It's amazing how balanced ten randomly divided people can be; the total sum of our victory (in the series) was three points. Can't get much better competition than that.
MAP projects were announced today. I got - incredibly - my first choice and what looks to be a sweet team. Two TMIers whom I really enjoy are on the team along with two other MBAs. Our project is "Strategy to reduce energy consumption and factory emissions, improving power plant energy effiency" for a major cogen power facility at a Pratt & Whitney plant in East Hartford, CT. Should be great - I'm excited to be saving the environment for a change instead of sending it to hell in a single-hulled, twin-diesel powered, totally frivolous handbasket.
Friday, February 03, 2006