Hey folks!
Thursday was the first day of classes. Michael had arrived at 1am, but still got out of bed easier than me…. I refuse to believe it has something to do with the movie I saw till 3, that can’t be! 
First we got into an Human Resource class about Employee rights - that was not what we wanted to hear, but we had misread the timetable (I had), and the Professor was funny anyway. I have to admit that I always said “hey, HR is interesting!”, but my interest in the topic is rather picky - do the funny stuff, don’t bother me with the basics. I guess I won’t be an HR guy then, and won’t take the class.
Next one was Internet Marketing with an Professor from India. I bought the class once he started talking about what the course was about. Hey, I actually knew something about the companies he mentioned! Talk Yahoo, Amazon, Ebay to me, and I smile and live a happy life.
After another 15 minutes break, which is roughly enough to get into the elevator and go to the other classroom (The business school is situated in a 80s-concrete- 7 floors - building, a bit old, a bit ugly, but it does the job), it was time for Supply Chain Management. I really enjoyed the Production and Service Operation Management-Course I had last semester, so I think it will do me good to learn some more about how things get actually done, and not only how to sell them. The Professor is really enthusiastic about the topic, highly involved with corporate partners, and he has a good sense of humour, too. It will be some work to do, but I think it will be worth it.
Last class I attended was my now-absolute-favourite: Consulting and Organizational Development. I LOVE this class already. The professor runs his own consulting company and spends about 3/4 of his time out in the field doing business, then comes back and teaches about it, so what I get is real, hands on experience. We did sort of a question-and-answer hour today to get going, and it was so much fun and so insightful that I could not help but smile all the time. It was such a great experience, sitting there in class, being able to talk about exactly the questions that I ask myself, getting advice that I could hardly get at WHU until now.
So this is the three classes I enrolled in: Internet Marketing, Supply Chain Marketing and Consulting. A fourth is still to come - there is a course on wednesday evening that my advisor here at Moore pointed me to. It’s simply called “International Management” (which means, I assume, lots of talking and little facts), and it is broadcast out of one of the studios at Moore to all other campuses of USC all over South Carolina. I could not sign up online for whatever reason, but I think I will get that settled tomorrow.
My timetable will look like this then: Tuesday from 11am to 4:45 pm, Wednesday from 6pm to 8pm, Thursday from 11am to 4:45pm. Weekend from Friday to Monday. (In theory, I mean I will have to do some work out of the classroom ;-)). I think I can handle that…. compared to Mexico, where it was 9 to 5 from Monday to Friday, it is quite a step forward.
The only thing I really don’t like: I just had a look at the weather forecast, and it seems like we would only get some 33 degrees today…. HAHA! Just kidding. I hope it does not get much hotter, but eventually it will. As always, chances are way higher that I get burnt than tanned, but I have not given up the hope yet. Go to sleep now, have a fabulous Friday!