I’m back. I’m alive. The election was won. (Thanks, Avril). Took a bit longer to get back to blogging than expected, due to a bug in the upgrade of WordPress, but all sorted now. A few online things to note from the campaign – Liveblogs and Twitter really came to life during the counts & [...]
June 16th, 2009 at
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As of five minutes ago, I’m officially a student at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. I’ll be doing the MBA course at the Sauder School of Business there starting in late August (with the pre-course stuff starting in early August). It’s a great course, and I’m really looking forward both to it, and to [...]
April 4th, 2009 at
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Well, as discussed before, I’m planning on doing a full time MBA later this year (starting August/September). It’s come down to decision time now, because I’ve received three offers and deadlines approach (thanks to those who helped reviewing my application essays, of course!). The three are UBC Sauder in Vancouver, University of Western Ontario (Ivey), [...]
March 27th, 2009 at
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As mentioned before, I’m hoping to do an MBA in the second half of this year. The first step in that journey is to apply to the MBA programmes I’m interested in (Sauder, Ivey, Nanyang & Smurfit, for the record). The first step in that process is to take the GMAT (Graduate Management Admission Test). [...]
January 22nd, 2009 at
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MBA | tags:
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As many of you will already have heard, I will be starting a new job in January. I’ve been appointed Labour Party campaign manager for the European Elections in Ireland East. Our candidate there is Nessa Childers (and yes, you do recognise the name, she’s the daughter of (Fianna Fáil) President Erskine H Childers [...]
December 29th, 2008 at
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