We've finished the first half of the first semester - Great Learning!!!

The first 7 weeks of the semester have been over. It was a very busy period with  assignments, exams, projects, report writing, and other co-curricular activities. We finished our first batch of exams last week with Accounting, Strategic Analysis, Statistics, and Managing People and Organization. I've really enjoyed the moments in BC and learned great new things so far. 

Two things that impressed me most.

Strong community. Everyone (professors, students, career service managers, and other school staff) works together, to build a strong collaborative learning community. That differentiates BC MBA from many other MBA programs. We have 100 students in the cohort, small enough for us to know more about each other, yet diverse enough to learn from others' experiences (people with background in marketing, project management, investment banking, consulting, IT, operations, accounting, etc.).

Great professors. BC has great professors who are dedicated to bring the best out of the students. It's just 7 weeks, but I've grown a lot. Prob Bob Radin who taught Managing People and Organization (MPO) was a former CEO of an investment company with 2,700 employees. Bob also invited CEOs and other top executives of multibillion or multimillion companies to give talks in our class.  The course has really opened up my mind about teamwork, management, leadership, social network, core values, and so on. We also had much fun with Prof Berger's class - Statistics. Prof Berger graduated from MIT. He made the course much less dry compared to other stats classes I took before. Prof Pete Wilson is the Joseph L. Sweeney chair of Accounting at Boston College. He has taught at other top universities before such as MIT, Harvard, and Stanford. He is one of the most enthusiastic teachers I've ever had. After his course, I feel much more comfortable with companies' financial statements and know to how gain further insight from the numbers. Last but not least, Prof Mc Clellan, who taught Strategic Analysis, is on the board of directors of a few companies. After his class, I like reading more about industries and companies (WallStreet Journal articles, ...) and see how strategies are derived and implemented.

With these, I'm eager to enter the second half of the semester.I'll keep you update of more interesting things ahead :)

Before I forget, here is the link for the accounting class. You can learn great accounting knowledge from here.
http://www.navigatingaccounting.com/
And here are Pete Wilson' life principles: "Live your life to the fullest" - http://www.youtube.com/user/navigatingaccounting?feature=mhum#p/c/0/d_V2_0D0k4g