The pressure in the cooker just got abnormal

In one of my previous posts I had hoped that the work pressure would subside in coming days,but I got it totally wrong. I did a counting today and figured I have ten subjects to take care at the moment, phew even I am surprised how am I managing this.On top of this, there are umpteen other equally important things such as career services,networking,social life etc etc. I am already sleep deprived and caffeine addict.

I have at least 5 groups to do assignments for various subjects. I have to use 'Congestion Control Algorithms' learned during my engineering days to manage all the group activities ;) I think this term and coming term is going to be heavy on work load... C'est la vie...

Vlerick - 10th on ranking and best on salary gain(Economist)

Got these news few days ago through a tweet of Matt Symonds. Together both the news brought a lot of cheers for the current class. Colleagues were ecstatically tweeting and updating their Facebook status messages with the links to these reports.

The current class would graduate under the fading shadow of 'Financial Crisis', although we all are very optimistic and these rankings definitely give us more confidence in positioning ourselves.

The superb international diversity of class(40 nations in class of 2010), focus on general management and entrepreneurship make Vlerick so attractive,however I feel Vlerick needs a strong brand building in regions outside Western Europe,more international faculty members and a much global outlook in case study formations.

Its party time and we are hoping to have a rocking party from the school management soon !!!

Unending affair with Belgian Foreigners Registration Authorities

I am in love or rather forced by circumstances to have an affair with the Belgian Foreigners Registration Authorities ;)) It has been more than a month and fourth trip to their office, I am still clueless about when would I get my 'Residence Permit'. I have been told it might take 3-6 more weeks and I have met all my appointments as given by them.

My frustration is legally I can't go out of Belgium until I have my RP, although people have gone to Netherlands, Morocco, Spain and where not.I thought bureaucracy is a gift of Britain to its colonies but Belgium proved me wrong. I have started liking the receptionist of Belgian FRA and their building feels like second home in Belgium ;))

I hope I get my RP soon. Be prepared to be patient with your RP when you come to Belgium or better apply for a type 'C&D' visa instead of type 'D',so that you can go out of Belgium even without your RP..

Mentorship Programme - Speed Dating way

Vlerick has a 'Mentorship' programme for the FT MBA students. Until last year every student was assigned a mentor based on her profile.Somehow that idea didn't work very well, with few students complaining about the organization of the programme.This year Vlerick decided to do it in a 'Speed Dating' way. Every student got to choose ten to be mentors from the list of given alumni,then every student got to meet six alumni for 10 minutes each.The idea was to interact with many alums and develop better relationship with more alums than just one.

I would definitely say the experience was good. I could connect to few alumns in the speed dating way. There would be 2-3 more such sessions. InBev always makes Vlerick get-together pretty fun, the beverage & food were rocking as always:))