I am so goddamned happy I don’t have to take New Jersey transit any more. I will never do it again in my life. Ever. After a hectic entry into New York, brief stop by the office, then the hotel to check in and drop off my bag, I took a cab to Penn Station …
Monthly Archive: January 2005
Jan
23
My Hometown
Talk about surreal. I’m riding my bike home from the train station in Dordrecht at 5:30pm on a Sunday night. As it is a Sunday, all the residents of Dordrecht are required by martial law to shut themselves in their homes and remove all traces of life from the town. It’s dark, and I’m gliding …
Jan
23
A Quick Update
The blog posts have gotten a little infrequent since I started my MBA, and I’d like to take this chance to explain why: From the 10th to the 15th of January I was basically in school or going to school from 7:00am until 6:00pm. The next week I was catching up on work (really) Then …
Jan
16
MBA Start Week
I just finished my MBA “Start Week”. I’m pretty sure the model for start week is Boot Camp. Just a quick recap: a little over a year ago I decided that an MBA would not only be a useful career tool, but would actually teach me a lot of things about business. In the parlance …
Jan
11
My First Dutch Lesson
I had my first state-sponsored Dutch lesson last night. Right after my first day of MBA school. I was pretty tired, but I managed to show up at the right place at the right time. I was directed to my classroom, met my teacher (very nice lady with an unfortunate overbite), who told me that …
Jan
11
Higher Education
I have had two days of MBA classes at the Erasmus Universiteit, the biggest university in Rotterdam. Among the differences between American and European educational systems: they sell cans of Heineken and little bottles of wine in the school cafeteria.
Jan
08
Degenerates
Starting bankroll:Guze: $22152Brian: $1116End: Brian +13 ($1129)
Jan
01
New Year’s 2005
New Year’s Eve – 2004 It’s 2:30pm on the first of January, 2005, and I am just starting to feel awake. Last night Ann and I accompanied Anja and Geert to the fabulous “Sporthal Pollepel” (The Ladle), a gymnasium about three basketball courts wide and deep, where 350 of Duffel’s finest citizens came to ring …