Sunday, December 03, 2006

We've got the Axe -- Berkeley wins "Big Game"!

I went to my first Cal (Berkeley) Football game yesterday which was nothing less than the 109th installment of the yearly"Big Game" against Stanford. I was a beautiful day at memorial stadium (which happens to be right next to the Haas business school on campus) and most importantly we won! It was a fun day out and a good way to not think about final- tests and -papers for a while... After the game we decided to act like undergrads and storm the field, which resulted in the lovely shot above of my Japanese buddy Jun and I with one of the Cal players - Go Bears!

Title Mania: VP of International

All, it is with great joy that i share with you the fact that I have accomplished one of my goals in life: becoming "VP of International" -- International Student Affairs that is :-)

Over the past week we have had elections for the MBA Student Association and I challenged myself to run, which included writing a formal platform and (gulp!) presenting it infront of 500 people (ok - in reality probably only 200 showed up, but trust me, that was plenty!) -- I can't tell you how much I learned to appreciate the public speaking class we took at the beginning of this semester!

Anyway, I ended up coming out ahead of no less than 6 other candidates and feel quite honored that apparently a majority of the Haas student body trusts me with a decent budget and the welfare of the international student population.