Any Given Saturday

It always feels good to be back in school even just on Saturdays - at least for this semester. The experience of being in a class as a student is a complete turnaround from the daily challenging, stressful and exciting task of managing a school. This time, I am the student and I can do things the way I used to do it back in the undergrad program I took 12 (or so) years ago. For one day, I can let go of the student in me and forget about it again come Monday.

First day in school is one of the most amusing days of a student. The effort of finding your assigned room, "sizing-up" the tolerance level of your professor and getting to know more classmates is really exciting. I didn't know that Ateneo has Center for Local Governance Office where two of my subjects are assigned in that venue right across the university gym. That area used to be a canteen back in my undergrad days.

Graduate school not only offers added learning in a structured way, it provides all the essential intangible collective experiences of our professors and classmates not found in any textbooks published. Learning from those real life experiences and exposures are more than enough reason to keep one in school at any given Saturday for those are something our tuition fee can't buy but given free of charge.

So why did you take up a Masters in Business Administration program? That was the first question asked of us during my first semester at the university. I recalled back then that my answer was for personal and business consumption. We were asked the same question last Saturday on my third semester at the University. This time I had a different answer, I took up the program because it believe I need to learn something more from others (classmates, professors and cases included) and share what I have learned in the process.