pre-school

First day of pre-MBA classes. I like it! Even if it's accounting!
For someone with NO prior experience in accounting, I didn't think it
was boring at all! Looked at Hershey's annual report. Basic
fundamentals about assets, liability, shareholder equity, and debits
and credits and of course, balance sheets, and income statements and
cash-flow statements et al.

Great way of getting back into "school mode." There were about 100
people taking the class (broken up into two sections.) The instructor
is really great. He had everyone's names memorized, so he just went
around the room casually calling everyone by name and asking them how
they liked Chicago so far etc. That was really phenomenal!

Met a bunch of people during class, the breaks and at lunch. Good
diversity. A whole bunch of people from New York and the East Coast in
general. Another bunch from the bay-area. Not too many people from
the south, I thought. A few from Europe, a few more from Asia, and a
few from latin-America. Lots of diversity of funtions. Trader-types,
engineers, brand-managers, marketing folks etc. Young and old ( = 30+
;)

The socializing is beginning. I'm skipping a $6-steak offer in favor
of an Indians-at-Regents get-together.