Was it only yesterday!

Feels like it!!

The classes started this week and it took off like a jet does from an aircraft carrier.

Weekend is here, where most of saturday is already dedicated to matriculation ceremony (unique about this place are these traditions, we dress up in robes and go in a procession of our respective colleges to get matriculated -- get official membership in the University.)

And then before Sunday need to wrap up a Marketing case study and catch up on a bunch of pre-reading for the coming week. After a macabre Friday, was it advisable to wine and dine with a group of social-anthropologists, development DPhil students? But that is Oxford, bask in those moments, float with the tides, then swim against them, get stronger! At least that's what I feel for now.

Adding to the "floating with the tides", 'attended Oxford university Japan society, played ping pong with some university champs, and attended the A-Z BOP (bop is a party with varying themes, heard it is short for "Big Open Party" -- one of those parties which is open to other college students.)

There is a huge checklist to be covered though! Some pictures from around...

Radcliffe Observatory, Tower of the winds. In Green Templeton College.

Stairs inside of Radcliffe Observatory

chess in the lawn of the college

 All souls college

Saïd Business School

The Bodleian library is one of the only 7 libraries entitled to receive a copy of every book published in UK. 7 million volumes in 110miles of shelving!
They don't lend, even King Charles l was refused permission to borrow a book!

It recently ran out of space!! We definitely are living in fast & changing times :)

Well, more as it happens... few light moments from the classes in first week:

A successful social entrepreneur quoting on humility:

"You can sit in the loftiest throne in the world,

but you are still sitting in your own rump!"

A professor:

"Insider trading like adultry, is a sin, not a crime;

condemned only by people who can't participate"

Fellow student:

"Economics is study of... irrational assumptions by rational people"

Tomorrow we don our dark suits, white bows, the sub-fuscs, the mortar-hats, and walk the 800 year old streets to get matriculated. When the big wooden doors shut, and while the tourists stand outside marveling on the proceedings inside, the cohort take their oaths...