Week One
|
| Thursday |
| 12:00 p.m. |
Meetings at work. |
| 5:30 p.m. |
Pick up flowers for my wife for our 10th wedding anniversary. |
| 6:00 p.m. |
Dinner with the family, and then the kids read to us until 9. I tell my son that it's his turn to keep mommy happy while I'm at school this weekend (the kids alternate this responsibility each weekend). |
| 9:30 p.m. |
Study. |
| 11:00 p.m. |
Pack. |
| 12:00 a.m. |
Go to bed. |
| Friday |
| 6:30 a.m. |
Leave the house to pick up a classmate at his residence. |
| 8:30 a.m. |
Arrive at campus, check for messages at WEMBA office. |
| 9:30 a.m. |
Class until 12:30 p.m. |
| 12:30 p.m. |
Group presents on potential international trip locations for next year. |
| 2:30 p.m. |
Afternoon classes until 6:45 p.m. |
| 7:00 p.m. |
Dinner and then back to the hotel to do last minute studying for tomorrow's exam. |
| 8:30 p.m. |
Call home, and then study until midnight. |
| Saturday |
| 7:00 a.m. |
Wake up, gather books, and head out for breakfast. |
| 8:30 a.m. |
Get to final exam location. |
| 9:00 a.m. |
Exam goes until 11:30 a.m. |
| 12:00 p.m. |
Lunch, another set of presentations by other groups for international seminar. |
| 1:00 p.m. |
Leadership class until 4 p.m. |
| 5:00 p.m. |
Take a nap. |
| 7:00 p.m. |
My wife arrives for a visit, and we have a great dinner. |
| Sunday |
| 11:00 a.m. |
Brunch in town with my wife before going home. At home, watch some football with my father-in-law and chat. |
| 6:00 p.m. |
Dinner with the family. |
| 7:00 p.m. |
Excuse myself to get caught up with work e-mails before Monday morning. |
| 8:00 p.m. |
Read with the kids. |
| 9:00 p.m. |
Read for school until 11:00 p.m. |
| Monday |
| 8:00 a.m. |
Busy day at work… |
| 6:00 p.m. |
Get home, have dinner as a family. |
| 9:00 p.m. |
Study by doing reading and problem sets until midnight. |
| Tuesday |
| 8:00 a.m. |
Series of conference calls today for work in preparation of a project in Taiwan early next year, but I have a chance to review some of the potential electives for next year during lunch. |
| 6:00 p.m. |
Get home, spend time with family. |
| 8:30 p.m. |
Open up materials for new Operations Management class and read. |
| 11:30 p.m. |
Go to bed. |
| Wednesday |
| 8:00 a.m. |
Early morning work conference call to Taiwan wraps up by 7:30 a.m. Take over responsibility for some tasks from a co-worker who recently took a new position to ensure that Taiwan project stays on schedule. |
| 12:00 p.m. |
Review the options for the international seminar trip on Wharton's WebCafé and vote on my preferred region. |
| 5:30 p.m. |
Home. |
| 7:00 p.m. |
Work with kids on story telling. |
| 8:00 p.m. |
Finish reading for Operations Management class and attempt pre-class questions. |
| 11:30 p.m. |
Jump back on work e-mail until midnight as I won't get much school work done tomorrow. |
