I've been too vague
"So Caitlin, why exactly were you in France?"
7/10/08 0 °F
A friend just e-mailed me and told that I'm being too vague about why I went to France. Here is the answer for everyone.
I'm at the end of MBA program at the University of Connecticut and we are required to take a class called Strategy as one of our final classes.
Also, my program (the working professional/part-time program) has an international requirement. Most of the students go on a trip with faculty for 1 week to Prague, China or Latin America. They go on tours, etc and then write a paper when they return.
By doing an exchange program with EM Lyon, I was able to satisfy both requirements in 2 weeks at one of the top business schools in Europe!! www.em-lyon.com There is no work due afterwards like writing a paper. Then Teresa and I were on vacation in Paris for a week.
The class was taught by a UConn professor (with an international background) and the other 10 Americans were UConn MBA students (8 from the Hartford campus so I didn't know them previously). Class was conducted in English and met every day. The French-speaking students were a mixture of Masters in the Science of Management, 4-9 International MBA and 1 Executive MBA. I think there were 35-40 students total.
No, I don't speak French but my Frenglish is good and my charades (party game for guessing words) are excellent. Luckily, my French-speaking classmates were fluent in English and took care of me/us. One taught me how to order tap water because bottled water was sooooo expensive - 5-10USD for a small bottle.
