The Stanford Life

Get Ready for a New Blog

As we are two weeks away from moving to The Netherlands, I will soon have a new blog about life in NL. Stay tuned. A link will be up in the next couple of weeks.

Russia

The day after graduation we left for our class trip. the first stop was st. petersburg, russia. we did a lot of siteseeing and walking. it was an incredible city and boy did the leaders of that era think highly of themselves. lots of palaces and with tons of gold and fountains.

Now we are in Moscow and just starting out the first day here. more to come.

GRADUATION

It's over. We graduated yesterday with an incredible ceremony. Many of us got to bring our kids up on stage with us as well which was special. Right before I was going to walk on stage someone handed Timothy to me and we got to walk together. I was completely surprised and it was really special.

Now this afternoon we leave on our last class trip to eastern europe. Maybe i'll put some entries in during the trip.

Just Back From The Netherlands

Well I finished up finals last week and left directly for the Netherlands to look for a house. Yes we are moving to NL as I become Operations Director of PACCAR Financial Europe. We'll be moving over there in august.

But before that we've got the big graduation this saturday. wow. i can't believe the year is over. what a year. what an incredible experience. what an awesome bunch of new friends for life.

A Few Weeks Left

We've only got a few more weeks left of school and graduation is on Saturday June 16. The year is almost over. What an incredible experience both intellectually and socially. We've made lifelong friends with so many people, now i can't wait to visit everyone in their home countries over the next 50 years or so.

As for our family, i will be taking a new position with my company over in the Netherlands. We are looking forward to our move to Europe this summer.

No Updates

We all thought Spring Quarter was going to be easy. Oh how wrong we were. This is the toughest one yet. In the next two weeks I've got 2 take home final exams, 4 final project papers and a presentation due. On top of that the social calendar is full just about every night since we are trying get together before we graduate. I think i've done more drinking in the past 4 weeks with all our friends, than i have done in the last 10 years combined.

Week 3 Spring Quarter

I guess I'm having trouble keeping my blog posts up to date lately. After finals last quarter we (Sloans) had an incredible trip to DC and NYC. We met some interesting people in government and private sectors. And most importantly we did more bonding together as a class, with a whole bunch of new stories that will stay with us forever.

While the Spring Quarter is supposed to be the easiest, it seems like the workload continues to increase. Maybe I'm doing something wrong. Maybe I took the wrong classes. My classes are great, just a lot more work than expected. While the second year MBAs are taking one or two classes this quarter, i'm taking 5 1/2 classes.

Winter Finals Over and Heading to East Coast

We finished final exams/papers earlier this week and got a couple of days of sun here in Palo Alto. This weekend we all head to Washington DC to meet with various government and business folks before heading up to NYC for a few days of doing the same.

It should be a great trip as long as the weather holds up on the East Coast.

Winter Quarter Almost Over

It seems like i've been apologizing more this quarter for not posting. The Winter Q has had a lot of reading and writing so it's been busy for us all. Luckily we're done early next week.

Then we all head out on our East Coast trip to DC and NYC for a week.

I will do my best to start putting more up on the blog next quarter. The Spring Q is rumored to be a little more relaxed around here. All i can do is pray that is true.

Twitter

I'm just starting to use this new service called Twitter.

It's a mix between IM and a Blog that can be updated from just about anywhere. I'm not sure how i feel about it yet, but i can't say bad things about something unless I try it first.

It's Been a While

I'm sorry for the two week delay in getting a post up here. It's mid-term exam time at the business school and it's been a little crazy. I've had 3 papers due in the last week, a mid-term and a simulation project in my Operations course.

Other than that things are going well. I'll start writing more this week.

The Saga in Arrillaga

I'll start with the bad news first. We lost our second game tonight by 40 points (74-34).

But the great news is we scored 34 points. That's 20 more than last game. The practice definitely helped as we passed the ball a lot more on offense and played much better defense although the score doesn't show it. The fact is, most of their points came off the fast break (that's where them being 20 years younger helps). When we could slow them down they weren't scoring too much. It was also great to have Kevin down in the middle getting rebounds and posting up.

Great Job Sloans!!!!!!!!

Winter Study Team Sunday BBQ

Today our Winter quarter study group "Gruppo P" got together at Bruno's place for a midday BBQ with our families. Bruno is from Argentina so we had empanadas and some meat that was carne asada style. Everything was excellent. This weekend a lot of the study teams had get togethers, so we'll see what stories start circulating tomorrow.

Saturday Morning Practice

Given our devasting basketball loss on Wednesday nite, the team regrouped this morning for a 90 minute practice. We worked on putting together a game plan and learning how to play offense a little better. Hopefully we'll score more than 14 points in next Wednesday's game.

Sloan Basketball

Last night was our first game on the hardwood together and it was nothing short of a disaster. The final score was something like 56-14. We had 14 ;-(

I think most of us could have been the parents of the kids on the undergraduate team we played. Needless to say, they had a little more speed than us. But it was great exercise. We were all huffing and puffing throughout the game.

The highlight of the game happened in the first 60 seconds when we took the lead by scoring first as Bruno nailed a 3 pointer. I still don't know how he did it, but he did. It was downhill after that.