That's a Wrap!

With an unceremonious click of a mouse, our summer term of LGO has come to an end.  That click was the last step in submitting the last of 6 papers that were due this week and it was somewhat anti-climactic considering everything that we have done over the last 11 weeks.  The truth is, we've been celebrating the term for a couple days now, but this paper was the last hurdle before the true break could begin.

The entirety of our LGO learning can be summed up by the 13" tall stack of papers sitting on my coffee table at home.  That is all the readings, case studies, P-sets, and papers that we've reviewed / created over the last 11 weeks that I haven't had any time to sort or make any semblance of order.  It's truly hard to believe that we covered all of that information since the beginning of June, but that's exactly what we did.  Yes, it was  lot of work and yes, there were a few times during the summer where sleep was sacrificed to get assignments done and some of us wondered if we'd make it to the end, but the truth is that it was an incredible experience and I wouldn't trade it for the world.  We now have a week off to reset (we're heading to an as-yet undisclosed mystery trip!), and then it will be time to jump into the Sloan orientation and the Fall courses of MBA core.

Of course, just because we've been working like crazy at school doesn't mean we haven't had a lot of fun times.  Here are some highlights:

Perfect weather to walk along the Charles, on our way to dinner in Back Bay.

Final Statistics project: dropping paper helicopters from the 3rd-floor stairwell.

LGO end-of-summer celebration BBQ

The emptiest that I've ever seen the LGO lounge (5:30pm on the last day of classes)

What do we do after the last day of class?  Mini golf and drinks in the Sloan lobby of course!  Here's the Boeing contingent up to no good.

Like kids in a candy store: LGOs visit the Verizon Wireless Innovation Center in Waltham, where they develop all the latest gadgets utilizing 4G LTE technology. 

After a 3-year hiatus, I finally made it back into the air thanks to my classmate Karl Kulling.  He was getting a check-ride to stay current, so I hopped into the back of this beautiful 2006 Skyhawk (complete with a G1000 flat-panel cockpit!).  More pictures to come soon.