Thursday, January 29, 2004

Organize a National Week and you get to know very well

- the student government's strings
- a new campus
- maintenance, multimedia, catering and operations staff
- accounting
- your compatriots' late night habits
- the city you reside in (handy places to get stuff done)
- the embassy
- the faculty and school staff

You have very short nights as you need to
- coordinate everybody's schedule
- invite faculty members to participate in events
- try out loads of restaurants, bars and clubs
- imagine activities, presentations, stories, load up pictures, music
- negotiate deals
- secure funding
- give feedback to lots of people
- handle 220 national week-related e-mails a day
- organize companies' presentation, discuss topics, find ideas about officials' speeches
- be creative about decorations
- select loads of luxury stuff, talk about shows
- do loads of shopping, decorations, meetings
- make tons of phone calls around the world
- learn about timezones
- drink loads of coffee
- think about the opportunity cost of not selling umbrellas down the street as you sadly notice the pouring rain

All this in the vapors of wine, junk food and dim neon lights
All this in addition to your normal INSEAD load

But hey! How much more fun this could get, I wonder...

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