Economics Ironman

We kicked the day off with Accounting and continued with Operations with Professor Nikos Tsikriktsis. Todays subject was on Process analysis and took us around the concepts of Cycle Times, Throughput times and bottlenecks. 'You are not engineers', Nikos said, 'but you need to know what questions to ask!'

Today was crunch-time for the ICA projects that we have been working on for the past two weeks. The projects were handed in last night, and today some of the groups were picked to present for the class. We got some very interesting presentations on topics ranging from IT and Oil Explorations to manufacturing of helicopters. Another reminder of the enormous collective experience there is in the class.

We all felt relieved that the project was over and we could get back to all the other stuff we need to do. Economics Professor Ralf Boscheck let the air out of that balloon very quickly though with one sentence: 'And tomorrow we start another project.' Well, at least we felt good for about an hour or so.

Class was over at 19.15 and 15 minutes later some twenty of us found ourselves lined up for another round of fitness with Patricia. No time wasted! Neither is there during Patricia's sessions. The program is designed to take us through both cardiovascular and muscular training as well as some stretching in just one hour. There are no breaks, of course!

If last fridays full day of Economics was a marathon, then the coming days are an Ironman. From now and until saturday at lunch time we are basically only doing Economics. Macro-economics that is, starting tomorrow. Ralf Boscheck only gave us one assignment for tomorrows class: 'Get a good nights sleep!'. That's an order I can commit to!

Goodnight,

Thorsten