Things to do this week

Tue - marketing 10-14, exam preparation for Growth (resit...), reading articles for marketing

Wed - marketing 10-14, exam, reading articles for marketing

Thu - marketing 10-14, exam preparation for marketing, writing a thesis proposal

Fri- research seminar 9-15, marketing exam, FREEEEEEEEDDDDDDDOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMM

I seriously wonder how on earth I can find time for all this. No time for procrastination I guess..

"Refreshing" weekend in Tallinn

We went to Tallinn, Estonia for the weekend with M on Friday evening. The plan was to meet T, N and R in there and that we certainly did. Amazing weekend is now behind us, at least I had a lot of fun. But not that much sleep.... Some pics will soon be in facebook, more details only in person :)


The plan was to stay in Helsinki from Sunday to Monday and conduct an interview for our SMoG course in Helsinki, but the person who we were supposed to interview called on Sunday that he is sick and thus unavailable for the interview. I guess we will conduct that via telephone on a later date.

The last classes of SMOG

Really liked the classes today too. I like the fact that in Finland the professors use a lot of examples from real life to make the subjects easier to understand. For example postbox producer Bobi was a fresh new company and their operating model very different from the obvious and traditional ones.


Now that the classes are over for this course it is time to put effort on the assignment and reading the articles. We scheduled the assignment today and basically according to that it should be ready one month before the deadline :) Not bad.

Some more classes of SMOG

Today we had a long day at school. The only class of the day was Strategic management of growth. I was prepared for a long hard day (from 10 to 18), but in the end it turned out to be quite relaxed. I really like the professor, he seems to be very knowledgeable person who knows what he is talking about but is at the same time relaxed and understands humor. Which is nice.

We also managed to get an interview with E for the assignment of this course. We are supposed to analyze the strategy of a company and also trying to figure out to which direction are the moving or they should move. The deadline is in the beginning of April, but our intention is to finish it way earlier. Because we are that good :)

First class in LUT

For a few days we have been participating in Strategic management of growth classes. Basically this course is about what are the phases of growth a company goes through or where does it fail while trying to grow. We have been examining the subject through variety of models and perspectives. Really interesting I must say! There is something that really appeals to me in these strategy-related subjects. Maybe its the fact that it is somehow mysterious and trying to outwit the other companies in the industry. Or at least make own company work better.

I really like the teacher. I can't put a finger on the things that I like about him, but for whatever reasons I do. I like his style, but I don't know if other students agree with me. At least majority of them are so quiet in the class....

In this class we also have to do a project in a groups of 2 or 3 persons. I've already formed my "team" with lovely E and we have an idea of the case company too. I will contact them later today and hope that they respond positively.