the past, present and future

Isn't it incredible that 5 months and 11 days ago we were in our first GCMO and Dr. Roth's speech in Lumpkin auditorium. Here we are now 8 hours before the last final exam, Kettinger's Information systems.

Some interesting facts that speak for our past in the program:
- our class mates total is 95
- unfortunately 4 of them left the class already
- 13 different nationalities: US, India, China, Bosnia, Germany, France, Belgium, Romania, Hungary, Peru, Mexico, Thailand, Barbados
- 9 different tracks that we will all be involved in (calculating Mexican and Spanish as two different ones)
- we took a total of 13 different classes, taught by 16 professors which come from 4+1 distinct countries (Explanation: India, US, Hong Kong, Bulgaria and Boston :)
- 25 credits worth of studies
- 9 physical text books, 1 online text book and millions of cases from our friends from Harvard
- attended 4 CEO speeches (Wachovia lectures)
- eat 2 times per week for free at the International House of Students right across the street
- we spent about $70 worth of parking tickets in 5 months
- estimated 264 bottles/cans of beer consumed by us
- estimated 76(Anand) and 23(Adrian) Starbucks caffeine drinks purchased
- 24,000 actual minutes spend together in class, paying attention

These numbers are only part of our estimates. The actual number are difficult to estimate. It has been a great time, we made a lot of friends and enjoyed a rough sail but it was interesting. Everyone in our program had a great story, everyone added some unique value to our program. Though we had different cultural and ethnic background, different functional experience, varied interests and priorities but we all had the same quest for knowledge, interest in travelling, learning about life of people. Business knowledge is just a bi-product, we gained more than what school can teach us from our fellow cohorts. It is this rich experience will help us sail smooth through our life journey.

Anand & Adrian