Vive le Dash

 Fall break vacation! Ashley had a week off from school so we had our first European frolic. Even better, we met up with friends who were traveling too. Europe is very easy to travel by train or plane, but since we only recently arrived with Koki, we do not really have a lot of options to leave her behind. And while she’s allowed on local/regional trains, she’s not allowed on the Eurostar trains and apparently not on any trains in Spain (WTF, Spain?). So we rented a car. I will probably need to write a whole post on just driving in Europe, but I am actually getting pretty good at it (spoiler: avoid cities). The best part about a car is of course the freedom to go wherever whenever you want.  Barcelona was our first stop to meet up with Michael and Natalie. Spain is only 4 and a half hours from Nice and Barcelona only a couple hours beyond that. Since we had limited time that overlapped with them, we shot straight there and skipped over all those beautiful French cities b...

I think it time for me to write a blog post. Mostly since I’m procrastinating my criminal risk paper. 😇 I feel the need to walk you through a typical week for me since in general my program is so different from an undergraduate program or even a typical master’s program.  And, despite what my Instagram looks like, I am not on vacation.  A little background on my program.  I am in Nice, France in an English-speaking Global MBA at EDHEC that is scheduled for 10 months with potential to be extended IF my final project is an internship and IF that internship is longer than 2 months.  EDHEC’s global MBA really focuses on accepting a diverse student population. My current class has about 85 students from roughly 30 different nationalities. I am also part of the consulting club and the women in leadership club. What a lovely building... that I view from the inside all day My schedule is supposed to be class from 9 am – 4:30 pm with an hour and 15 min lunch break.  In ...