As much as I would love to believe the contrary, these past 5 weeks spent in Milan have been passed in the most leisurely way possible. I took advantage of every opportunity to spend money and waste time (sorry Dad). Want to spend a night out at the Cavalli club? Sure. Another apperativo? Count me in! A weekend excursion to Munich for the 200th anniversary of Oktoberfest? Why not! Everyday I would wake up when I pleased, and as long as I made it to my single class at an extremely convenient 4:30pm, I was ok. But this week was different.
There was something in the air that I have only experienced a couple times in my life. During my first day at Santa Clara University I felt it. I felt it again during my first day as gainfully employed adult at Deloitte. And for the third time in my life I felt the excitement of something completely new and foreign, it was the first day as an official MBA candidate at SDA Bocconi. New faces filled the hallways in our home for the next year, Via Balilla 18, and I loved it. Meeting people is an incredible feeling. I think I met 200 people this week, and although our class size is 110, I am sure I did (sorry for those of you that I met “for the first time” more than once).
Classes were about what I expected. We are split into 2 groups, Blue and Yellow (shout out to the blue class!), and we are concurrently enrolled in the same 5 classes. I really enjoyed our Marketing, Quantitative Methods, and The Firm and It’s Behavior (kind of) classes. I seriously disliked our Financial Markets class and I am sure I will have equal feelings towards the Financial Reporting class. The classes that I do hate (I know hate is a strong word, but trust me on this) aren’t that bad, but I come from a financial/accounting background and that is a sector that I have absolutely no interest in going back to. I think the concepts that are being presented are fairly basic and I spent four years in my undergraduate studies learning them, but I am not saying that others are not getting anything from them.
Besides my general disdain for two of the classes, I am enjoying my time. I am already overloaded with class, homework, social events, and professional development events. This month is particularly crazy as the previous MBA class is departing for the work world and we begin to fill their shoes. This month alone I have a lecture by the CEO of Vodaphone, a tour of the Martini Factory and networking event in their office, a social event and lecture hosted by CEO and Founder of Pagani Zonda Motors (look it up, seriously cool company), a wine tasting and lecture by owner of Tenuta La Tenaglia winery, and then a private tour of a winery in a Barola based winery hosted by the owner. Besides those events I have homework and other social functions that I “must” attend. I know I am busy, but I couldn’t be happier. I can tell every event I attend and every class I sit through is preparing me for the future.
Well that has been the experience of my first week. Be sure to check back as I sit through the good classes, anguish through the bad, create millions of memories, and catapult myself into the best year of my life.
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