October 2011
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From Classroom to Consultancy #5
To recap the past week, let’s begin with the Good.
Soon after finishing last week’s blog, I was able to amend my train ticket, ensuring that I won’t miss our group’s upcoming presentation. Understanding the situation. my module leader has graciously agreed to let our team have the last presentation slot of the day! Just as importantly, with merely a week separating us from...
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The Leadership Question
Blog by Oladeinde Adewale, Campus Ambassador (Middle East Technological University)
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
- John Quincy Adams
I believe that the current global trend of student events that is spanning across the world (be it in economic, social, environmental and political dimensions) is calling for more young people...
“One worthwhile task carried to a successful conclusion is worth half-a-hundred...”
– Malcolm S. Forbes
“In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not...”
– Sir John Lubbock
Tips for Students: Time Management
Time management is the act or process of exercising conscious control over the amount of time spent on specific activities, especially to increase efficiency or productivity.
Here are few tips on effective time managements for students.
Goal setting- Setting achievable targets or goals helps you to be able to differentiate achievable aims from mere fantasies. Learning to set this goals and...
“One cannot manage too many affairs: like pumpkins in the water, one pops up...”
– Chinese Proverb
Time management versus the...
We all have been in a situation of a complete spin at some point of our lives. The moment of the non-ending series of tasks can be eternal – especially if we do not tackle them. To be honest, I have been quite inclined to postpone my tasks and leave them for later on. However, this did not work out for me, for example in exam session periods where I had to rush through the material. In other...
thoughts from tumblr: Managing Your Time →
vancerains:
In five hundred twenty-five thousand Six hundred minutes How do you measure A year in the life? (Seasons of Life, RENT)
As a leader, time is a precious commodity. Most leaders would say that they do not have nearly enough time to accomplish all of their many responsibilities,…
“Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want...”
– Thomas Jefferson
“You will never “find” time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.”
– Charles Bruxton
Running ahead of Time
Another academic year has come and many of us who study in the UK have been excitedly (or grudgingly) settling back into student life yet again, or we are just beginning to experience it. Whatever your situation, as we draw closer to the end of October, the grace period is slowly ending and you may find yourself suddenly short on time to party (and nurse the imminent hangover), be part of clubs...
“Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.”
– William Penn
This week's Theme: Time Management
This week’s theme is time management. This week, the Ambassadors have wracked their brains to tell your real-life stories of when they have had to manage their time. Before we get started, though:
What is time management?
According to Wikipedia, time management is “the act or process of exercising conscious control over the amount of time spent on specific activities, especially...
From a Classroom to Consultancy #4
Barbara Oberc, StudentEvents’ Campus Ambassador at the University of Newcastle, is currently doing her final year project as a management consultant at a real firm!
This week, the results are in… did Barbara get her first choice company to work with over the next year? Read on to find out…
I received an e-mail bright and early on Monday morning that told me that I had been...
From a Classroom to Consultancy #3
This week our class of about forty-five met with the seven clients. The meeting very much resembled your average session of speed dating as we sat ourselves (in random groups of five or six) around seven tables while the clients switched from one to another on ten minute intervals.
The amusing situation quickly made for a relaxed atmosphere. We chatted with the clients about their organisations,...
“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become...”
– John Quincy Adams (6th President of the United States)
Hello, world. Meet Marta!
A slightly eccentric Slovenian studying MA Creative and Media Enterprises at the University of Warwick. Avid photographer of all things weird and wonderful. Animal enthusiast. Most of the time can be found packing or on the road to somewhere random. But wherever you might find me, expect to find a good, healthy dose of rock’n’roll.
Read Marta’s first blog as a StudentEvents Campus...
Creativity for the Non-Creative
This post was written by Marta Svetek, Campus Ambassador at the University of Warwick.
Just a few days ago I was sitting here at my desk, contemplating life (read: procrastinating) when I remembered a question that kept popping up at almost every social event I’ve been to since the beginning my course:
“Creative Industries? What the…?”
A simple answer to remedy the confusion is this: all...
“Feel the fear, and do it anyway.”
– Susan Jeffers
They Are Our Leaders!
They say that good leadership is what can transform our societies. I completely concur with this statement. Isn’t it amazing the way young people are fighting to get into leadership positions in our institutions?
Every day since I joined the University of Nairobi last year, I watch as students struggle into leadership and how much they fight to get there. Yes, I agree that most of them have...
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From the Classroom to Consultancy
Like most introductory lectures delivered at the beginning of a semester to a group of students ranging from the naively eager to those blatantly doubting whether they’re in the right place, the introductory session to the module of Management Consultancy this Monday did not fail in serving its main purpose: to scare the living daylights out of us.
Basically, there is going to be a lot of...
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ISFIT 2011: I hope you have the time of your life
I present myself as a proud participant of the International Student Festival in Trondheim, Norway 2011. In the words of Oscar Levant,
“Happiness is not something you remember, but something you experience”
The surreal delight and the exciting experiences this journey brought me, can never be forgotten.
My odyssey began with a simple ISFIT invitation letter on the college notice board and an...
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StudentLife: How to make the most of your 1st year...
What does University mean to you?
Is it freedom because you finally got away from home and can actually decide what to buy from where and even when to go to bed? Or is it scary because of the uncertainty of the new environment?
Regardless of the wide varieties of interpretations, you’re finally here – this long-awaited first year at uni!
Here are 4 “musts” to make the most of your freshman...
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“You can lead a boy to college, but you can’t make him think.”
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4 Reasons to be in a Student Event this year
You’re in college, enjoying the best years of your life - it’s all about hanging out with your friends, doing some studying and mostly having a lot of fun. Find out how participating in a student competition, conference, or seminar NOW will help your essays write themselves!
1. Because it’s fun
Would you enjoy skiing in Austria with McKinsey consultants? Flying to Rome with...
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StudentLife: How to Succeed in Life without...
It has been no surprise that since the beginning of the “noughties,” technology has been integrated into every aspect of life to a level previously only entertained in the wistful looks of science fiction fans. The pace of our lives has sped up.
There is an unprecedented supply of information at our fingertips that we need to absorb to decide what we want to do with our lives. By the time we’re...
5 Networking Tips for non-business majors
I was recently at a career information session held by a top electronics company. As a psychology major, I felt more than a little out of place: the information session was for commerce, engineering, and computer science students only.
Everybody was wearing a suit, had 20 copies of their resume filed neatly in a portfolio, and here I was, wearing my favorite bright blue heels, no makeup, no...
Lessons from Kenya: Work Hard, Play Hard
This blog was written by Vera Oreti, StudentEvents’ Campus Ambassador at University of Nairobi-Kenya.
Kenya is a country that holds onto education as one of the key pillars towards the achievement of Vision 2030 and also the realization of the Millennium Development Goals that go in line with the same. The system of education here is majorly the 8-4-4 although there are several...
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C is for Conferences
The Benefits of Attending International Conference for Students
By Rizalul D. Pasundani, StudentEvents’ Campus Ambassador at the University of Indonesia
Communication is one of the most important things for human beings, no matter how it is conducted. Today’s students are the masters of communication both formally and informally. One of the most important venues for formal communication...
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