2 weeks of unemployment and 1 week of madness

I left my job end of August and spent a couple of weeks in London. As I (re)discovered during that period, I can't sit idle. Throughout the 2 weeks I constantly kept myself busy with something or the other (myriad options included thoroughly cleaning the hobs to running along the Thames to trying to do my financial reporting pre-course work) Soon the Oxford journey was about to begin.
I travelled to Oxford a couple of times to meet friends, watch SBS play in the finals of the Jack Cox tournament against the Medicine guys (and losing a close match) and just check out the place that would be my town for the next year. Unfortunately, I wouldn't as yet see the apartment that I had agreed to rent. Yes, the first time I saw my apartment was when I moved in!
The apartment turned out to be really nice and since it was newly refurbished (we were the first tenants to move in) it felt really clean and nice- just like a hotel suite! As I sit down and write, I've been going to the school its been a week and a day but it feels longer (both good and bad;)). Also, contrary to my initial fear I haven't hated wearing suits. I quite like it. Must add though that I think I have lost some weight and some of the suits don't fit me as well. Aw well, tough life! :p
But yea, back to the school life, I attended the Consulting and Finance bootcamps last week. They were 2 days each and I found them pretty helpful in getting to know about the industry and the kind of roles that exist there. I am still not 100% sure about where I see myself post MBA, but I think I know more than one bucket of roles that I can leverage my experience in. Having alumni and sector panelists talk about their experience was certainly insightful too. But I dont want to think too much about careers on this post :)
On Friday (23rd Sep) evening some of us were able to attend the pre-Induction at Green Templeton College and sat through a presentation that lasted about an hour and a half. Speakers varied from a Doctor who came to speak about NHS, etc to the Senior Tutor's stand-in to the IT Head- bunch of people spoke about what college life in GTC would be like- if ever we there :) We were fortunate to have also taken a tour of GTC earlier in the week and ate the awesome (both on price and taste axes;)) food at GTC. If there is one place I'd like to eat lunch in the coming year, I'd like to frequent GTC. But we'll see how that pans out...
We had Oxford Pursuit, a treasure hunt competition Saturday morning and a family event on Saturday evening. I have signed up for Peer Support - essentially being at hand support for SBS students who need someone to talk to. Had a full day training on Sunday for Peer Support. Back to SBS, today was our Registration where we got SBS bags, our lockers in the school, etc. The new dean Peter Tufano said something that has stuck in my head and I hope that with time I can keep reminding myself of this thought/these questions. Key points: who do I want to be? Why am I here? And an intellectual version of Peter Parker's Uncle Ben's 'With great power comes great responsibility'.
There is lots happening already and a few stats I saw today reinforced my decision to come here: the class is 251 people and 53 nationalities! Should be a fun year ahead and I sincerely hope I can continue to pen (?) down stuff that'd be helpful to people in the future and be milestones in my memory of the time in Oxford!