Managing the MBA Busy-ness
I returned from my trip to Portugal—a much needed three-day vacation from school—on Nov. 11 in such good spirits that the Paris train strike that doubled my travel time home seemed comical. With a refreshed motivation and eye-sparkling memories of my travel adventures with some of my new friends, I returned to HEC Paris (HEC Paris Full-Time MBA Profile) and commenced my five-week countdown.
Before the semester's end at noon on Dec. 18, I faced seven exams, two presentations, and one project. On Dec. 17, with one exam to go and a HEC Paris campus blanketed in a breathtakingly beautiful layer of snow, I fought hard to stay focused. While the majority of my classmates and I reverted to age 10, ignored the fact that another final stood between us and our holidays, and launched into a full-blown snowball war, by 11:30 a.m. on Dec. 18 we did it. We all handed in our completed human resources finals, effectively bringing our first semester, one in which we constantly battled to balance our hectic school schedule with moments of personal relaxation, to a close.
