It’s official now. My actual last class of the first year in part-time MBA program at George Washingtonn University School of Business was on Wednesday last week. That week we had the final in-class presentation in Entrepreneurship class, and final written exam in Managing Human Capital. But I did not feel like reporting this milestone because I still had a take-home final exam in Data Analysis & Decisions, aka Business Statistics. I spent all last night (literally 
) doing that exam. I submitted it today online and now I can have a deep sigh of relief.
The only thing I have on my mind – the first year of business school is done! I noticed that saying that was redundant. 
But this is my suppressed feelings of joy and somewhat disbelief are taking the best of me. Two years ago about this time it was just a random idea that I got from a casual conversation with my colleague. I just got curious and was entertaining myself with the “what if” scenario of an MBA. Up until that time I never thought the MBA was even in the realm of possibilities for me. That was due in part to my life circumstances, but mostly to the mindset I had. Years before that I had a brief period of “fantacizing” about the MBA, but it was just that – a fantasy, not even a dream that could be turned into something actionable.
Now the first year of my MBA is done. As much as a milestone it is for me personally, I think in more practical down-to-earth terms about what it means for me right now. Not surprisingly, it is the same thought of train I had at the end of the first term of business school last December: I again can watch movies without feeling guilty or pressured by the thoughts of the impending deliverables and routine homework for my classes. I can read a book that is not a textbook. I have time to attend to the tasks of house keeping/maintainance, I can spend more time with family, without school work imposed constraints. I can… Yes, I can. And that feels good!
My summer session, though, starts in just two short weeks from now. I have signed up for two classes for the first summer module: Nature of Markets and Management of Innovation and Technology. I will take a real two month break after that module which will be finished at the end of June.
I have been swamped with all the assignments I had to do during the last module, so I could not update the blog as often as I wished. But in the next couple of weeks I am planning to catch up a bit with some articles I have in the pipeline. Mostly it is going to be a retrospect of the last module, so stay tuned.
Oh, with all these overwhelming feelings I almost forgot to mention one quite important thing: my first year of part-time MBA program at GWSB is done! 
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