Week 8: Hilary Lectures got over...

It is over... Yes, the final lecture week of Hilary term just got over. This term went by so fast and we are now into the preparation week towards our exams. You can already see that the exam pressure is building up with this post being a day late.


Last week was more of a wrap up one for different subjects with final few tips towards the impending exams and the most important of all was - "ANSWER THE QUESTIONs". I had no assignments due for this week so was pretty relaxed though still not done with them. Two formal assignments viz. Financial Management and Operations Management are due in the week after exams. By formal assignment, I mean we have to take the printout of the documents instead of submitting them online, and then submit three copies of the same at the Examination Schools.


During this revision week, we will also be pitching our EP ideas to the venture capitalists for their feedback about the viability of our projects and provide us with their feedback so that we can further improve upon our business plan before we submit it at the Examination Schools during the week zero of the next term.


We had no recruitment presentation, guest speakers coming in this week and hence were able to devote our time to give shape to our EP presentations and documenting the business plan, leaving it open for incorporating feedback from VC's.


Friday evening we had a party at the business school to mark the end of term (Well, atleast from lectures point). The theme of the party was - "Saïd goes to Bollywood". Chad was in true Indian outfit and faced a tough challenge from Patty to win the coveted prize for the evening. It went on till late though I could not stay till the end because had to go out the next day for data collection for our Operations Management (OM) assignment.


In short, OM assignment is about a business process analysis of a customer-facing process in Oxford. We chose STARBUCKS coffee shop for the purpose and collected data for the queuing process at the shop. Since it being a Saturday, we got a better understanding of any problems associated with the performance of the process and can give recommendations with far improved reasonings.


Sunday, began the revision for the exams and I am expecting to get over with them by the end of this week so that I have Sunday to relax a bit more before the exam week begins.


For now, it is the time to dig into my books, notes and whatever study material I can lay my hands on to prepare for the final battle of this term.


Good Night and Good Luck!!!