Hi Friends,
this is just a quick note that if anyone is interested in Uruguay check out this blog http://fromuruguay.blogspot.com/ it has great information on my great country
Be Safe
Mateo
Wednesday, November 23, 2005
Saturday, October 01, 2005
Notas y Cumple
Hola a todos,
bueno aprovechando que me levanté temprano hoy y que hace como 3 semanas que no escribo pues aquí estoy escribiendo unas líneas.
Tengo 2 muy buenas noticias que contarles.
Primero relacionado al master, me acaban de dar una nota de un parcial que es bastante importante y me fue bastante bien, me saqué 175/200 y el máximo de la clase fue 190. Acá lo bueno es que la nota se basa en el que saca más o algo así, entonces al final es más fácil tener notas altas jaja. Ah no les comenté pero la nota corresponde a "Managerial Economics" que es una especie de Microeconomía aplicada a los negocios y es creo yo la materia más importante del semestre, al menos la que requiere más trabajo. Esto es muy motivante porque en la misma materia con mi equipo veníamos haciendo unos papers y aunque no nos ha ido mal, venimos por debajo del promedio de la clase y eso no nos gusta. No nos importa ser los nro 1, pero tampoco estar detrás del resto.
La otra noticia que tengo para darles es que hoy es mi cumpleaños nro 27!!
La verdad que ese número ya impone un poco más de respeto jejeje, pero yo soy un tipo que no se preocupa ni se hace drama por esas cosas. Cada vez que me siento viejo lo que hago es pensar en mis hermanos mayores a los cuales yo todavía veo jóvenes y me digo a mi mismo "si yo soy un pibe al lado de éstos" jajajajaja (sin ofender). Por lo pronto el plan del día es jugar al tennis en un rato contra 2 muy amigos uruguayos, hoy lamentablemente no voy a contar con mi pareja habitual (de tennis), pero me conseguí un buen reemplazo. Por la tarde tengo reunión de grupo de estudio porque tenemos que dar una presentación de Marketing el martes y por la noche si, ahí tiro la chancleta. Invité a todo el mundo que conozco por estos lares a ir a un boliche a sacarle lustre al piso y a practicar el codo. Ayer estaba armando la lista de los que posiblemente vayan y eran como unos 130. Es impresionante la de gente que uno se cruza acá. Aunque debo admitir que el master es un proveedor importante de invitados jejeje. Durante toda esta semana me cruzaba con los compañeros y todos me saludaban por el cumple (claro si hasta la directora del programa invité jajaja).
Eso si...mañana va a estar duriiiiiiisimo :-(
Besos y Abrazos pa todos
Mateo
bueno aprovechando que me levanté temprano hoy y que hace como 3 semanas que no escribo pues aquí estoy escribiendo unas líneas.
Tengo 2 muy buenas noticias que contarles.
Primero relacionado al master, me acaban de dar una nota de un parcial que es bastante importante y me fue bastante bien, me saqué 175/200 y el máximo de la clase fue 190. Acá lo bueno es que la nota se basa en el que saca más o algo así, entonces al final es más fácil tener notas altas jaja. Ah no les comenté pero la nota corresponde a "Managerial Economics" que es una especie de Microeconomía aplicada a los negocios y es creo yo la materia más importante del semestre, al menos la que requiere más trabajo. Esto es muy motivante porque en la misma materia con mi equipo veníamos haciendo unos papers y aunque no nos ha ido mal, venimos por debajo del promedio de la clase y eso no nos gusta. No nos importa ser los nro 1, pero tampoco estar detrás del resto.
La otra noticia que tengo para darles es que hoy es mi cumpleaños nro 27!!
La verdad que ese número ya impone un poco más de respeto jejeje, pero yo soy un tipo que no se preocupa ni se hace drama por esas cosas. Cada vez que me siento viejo lo que hago es pensar en mis hermanos mayores a los cuales yo todavía veo jóvenes y me digo a mi mismo "si yo soy un pibe al lado de éstos" jajajajaja (sin ofender). Por lo pronto el plan del día es jugar al tennis en un rato contra 2 muy amigos uruguayos, hoy lamentablemente no voy a contar con mi pareja habitual (de tennis), pero me conseguí un buen reemplazo. Por la tarde tengo reunión de grupo de estudio porque tenemos que dar una presentación de Marketing el martes y por la noche si, ahí tiro la chancleta. Invité a todo el mundo que conozco por estos lares a ir a un boliche a sacarle lustre al piso y a practicar el codo. Ayer estaba armando la lista de los que posiblemente vayan y eran como unos 130. Es impresionante la de gente que uno se cruza acá. Aunque debo admitir que el master es un proveedor importante de invitados jejeje. Durante toda esta semana me cruzaba con los compañeros y todos me saludaban por el cumple (claro si hasta la directora del programa invité jajaja).
Eso si...mañana va a estar duriiiiiiisimo :-(
Besos y Abrazos pa todos
Mateo
Sunday, September 11, 2005
Master Update
Hi Again Fellows,
It's kind of hard to maintain my blog updated, as classes advance more and more work I have to do.
But so far I like going back to school, I know it's going to be challenging but I'm excited about it, and I'm learning a lot.
I don't know if I've mentioned it before, but I'm part of a team of six, my teammembers are: Laura, Gilbert (Gil), Nancy, Sharon and Bindiya. I'll tell you more of these fellows as time goes by. I think we are a great team with a lot of potential. We are finishing our first paper together and even though it took us a lot of time, I'm very happy with the output. I'll post the paper later when we've finished.
The courses I'm taking are Economics, Marketing, Statistics, Human Dynamics and Accounting. They are pretty interesting, specially Economics, even though it's one of the most challenging courses. Because I have no background on it.
I also started to work twice a week and I can tell the difference with the rest of the students that have more time to study, but hey, I never liked easy things and I don't expect this one to be the exception.
If all of this wasn't enough, the social part is not left behind jejeje. Usually on thursdays we go to a happy hour where 2nd year students go so we take the chance to meet them. Also this weekend was pretty busy, I had a farewell, a birthday and a party organized by a 2nd year student.
Here's a picture of some of my classmates, this was last week where some of they guys celebrated their bday. We went to a sushi bar.
It's kind of hard to maintain my blog updated, as classes advance more and more work I have to do.
But so far I like going back to school, I know it's going to be challenging but I'm excited about it, and I'm learning a lot.
I don't know if I've mentioned it before, but I'm part of a team of six, my teammembers are: Laura, Gilbert (Gil), Nancy, Sharon and Bindiya. I'll tell you more of these fellows as time goes by. I think we are a great team with a lot of potential. We are finishing our first paper together and even though it took us a lot of time, I'm very happy with the output. I'll post the paper later when we've finished.
The courses I'm taking are Economics, Marketing, Statistics, Human Dynamics and Accounting. They are pretty interesting, specially Economics, even though it's one of the most challenging courses. Because I have no background on it.
I also started to work twice a week and I can tell the difference with the rest of the students that have more time to study, but hey, I never liked easy things and I don't expect this one to be the exception.
If all of this wasn't enough, the social part is not left behind jejeje. Usually on thursdays we go to a happy hour where 2nd year students go so we take the chance to meet them. Also this weekend was pretty busy, I had a farewell, a birthday and a party organized by a 2nd year student.
Here's a picture of some of my classmates, this was last week where some of they guys celebrated their bday. We went to a sushi bar.
OK everyone, take care and be happy!!
Thursday, August 25, 2005
MBA - A week later
Hello Everybody,
it's been 8 days since I started the MBA. It's the first day I get to post anything because it's been like crazy and sorry but I'll be writing in English only for two reasons, one because I think everybody that reads my blog understands it, and second because I need to practice my english writing.
OK, now to business.
It's been a great and very interesting week. Not so much for the academical side of it but for all the people I've met.
Let me say briefly that we haven't officially started classes yet, so we've been having these workshops, lectures, orientations, etc...mostly introductions to different subjects such as accounting, strategic management, group dynamics, etc and several introductions to services provided by the University and the MBA, last but not least we've spent plenty of "social" hours like meeting our classmates, second year students and staff from GWU which I think it's the most important thing here.
What can I say about my classmates, to start with let me tell you that we are 76 in the generation (MBA Candidates for 2007 that is) split in two Cohorts (one is called G and the other is called W - the one that I belong to) and within those cohorts they've assigned us to a study group of 6 or 7 people (mine is 6).
More than half are from the US, but the rest come from countries such as: Morocco, France, Belgium, Macedonia, Greece, Taiwan, China, Japan, Corea, India, Canada, Brazil, Colombia, Perú, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Pakistan, Turquey and I'm sure I'm forgetting some country, I apologize for that.
Getting to know these people has been one of the most interesting things I've ever done. There's much to learn about their cultures, their countries, their ways, etc. This is why I chose GWU and I'm convinced I made the right choice. I hope that in time I get to tell you about some classmates, but now I can't get into details.
Today I met my mentor, his name is Brandon and he is from Taiwan, he is a great guy and we got along very well. I think we can be of great help to each other. He founded a software company in Taiwan 5 years ago so hopefully he can give me plenty of tips when I embark in such enterprise.
I'm a little worried about the amount of information that we receive each day whether it is on presentations, e-mails or handouts of things to read, it's overwhelming actually. I hope to get along with it and learn how to cope it. Classes haven't even started yet!!!
For now this is it people, I hope you liked what you read and don't get bored by it.
I'll be in touch.
Mateo
it's been 8 days since I started the MBA. It's the first day I get to post anything because it's been like crazy and sorry but I'll be writing in English only for two reasons, one because I think everybody that reads my blog understands it, and second because I need to practice my english writing.
OK, now to business.
It's been a great and very interesting week. Not so much for the academical side of it but for all the people I've met.
Let me say briefly that we haven't officially started classes yet, so we've been having these workshops, lectures, orientations, etc...mostly introductions to different subjects such as accounting, strategic management, group dynamics, etc and several introductions to services provided by the University and the MBA, last but not least we've spent plenty of "social" hours like meeting our classmates, second year students and staff from GWU which I think it's the most important thing here.
What can I say about my classmates, to start with let me tell you that we are 76 in the generation (MBA Candidates for 2007 that is) split in two Cohorts (one is called G and the other is called W - the one that I belong to) and within those cohorts they've assigned us to a study group of 6 or 7 people (mine is 6).
More than half are from the US, but the rest come from countries such as: Morocco, France, Belgium, Macedonia, Greece, Taiwan, China, Japan, Corea, India, Canada, Brazil, Colombia, Perú, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Pakistan, Turquey and I'm sure I'm forgetting some country, I apologize for that.
Getting to know these people has been one of the most interesting things I've ever done. There's much to learn about their cultures, their countries, their ways, etc. This is why I chose GWU and I'm convinced I made the right choice. I hope that in time I get to tell you about some classmates, but now I can't get into details.
Today I met my mentor, his name is Brandon and he is from Taiwan, he is a great guy and we got along very well. I think we can be of great help to each other. He founded a software company in Taiwan 5 years ago so hopefully he can give me plenty of tips when I embark in such enterprise.
I'm a little worried about the amount of information that we receive each day whether it is on presentations, e-mails or handouts of things to read, it's overwhelming actually. I hope to get along with it and learn how to cope it. Classes haven't even started yet!!!
For now this is it people, I hope you liked what you read and don't get bored by it.
I'll be in touch.
Mateo
Sunday, August 14, 2005
Pola Locura
Hola Estimados,
esta vez quería presentarles a quien considero mi nueva hija, se llama Pola Locura y nació el 15 de agosto de 2005. Es hija de Lesapunta (una yegua madre de mi propiedad y cuidada en el Polo Haras La Polaca) y de Lotrenz un padrillo de gran calidad y ganador nato.
Todavía no la conocí pero gracias a la tecnología de hoy día ya tengo fotos de ella del día que nació y de los días siguientes (la foto que ven arriba es de varios días de nacida) que me mandó mi Padre. Más allá de eso, el sentimiento que se genera al saber que un ser como Pola Locura nació es difícil de describir. Seguro que cualquier padre o madre entenderá lo que quiero decir. No quiero ni saber lo que será el tener un hijo de verdad!!!
Por lo que me han contado parece que Pola Locura hace honor al nombre y que tiene un temperamento inquieto, bueno por algo será que a mi se me ocurrió ese nombre. Lo que estoy seguro que va a ser una locura es poder llegar a taquearla o meterla a un partido en 3 años....que impaciencia!!!
Espero les guste la nueva miembro de la familia, les daré actualizaciones en cuanto sepa más
Saludos a todos y todas!! Sean Felices
Mateo
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