Day 139: Courses finalised & Bain Party

Can't believe it's already been a week and a half since I started the period. Feels like sooo much has happened in the past few days that could quite easily have taken up twice as much time as it all has. That being said, I'm glad that I've finally got my classes for this period sorted out and it's all systems go now.

I'm signed up for the following classes:

• International Political Analysis (IPA) - Core
• Corporate Entrepreneurship (CE) - Entrepreneurship
• Applied Corporate Finance (ACF) - Finance
• Market Driving Strategies (MDS) - Marketing
• Advertising and Social Media Strategy (ASMS) - Marketing
• Strategies in Product and Service Development (SPSD) - Technology & Ops Mgmt

I feel that they cover a pretty wide range of topics across various department with some really cool projects/discussions and some amazing professors. One thing I'll need to be careful of is to make sure I stay on top of the classes as far as possible as the workload for these courses combined can be quite a handful.

In other more fun news, the Bain party at the end of Welcome Week last night was just as amazing as the one back in September, if not better in my opinion since we (the P3's) know each other a lot better now and therefore are more likely to throw each other in the pool. =P


I think it's pretty cool that Bain sponsor this out of all the other events that companies sponsor at INSEAD. Definitely don't see any other consulting companies doing anything similar for a large-scale social event. My question though is whether the company see this as marketing budget well spent or not? I'm not necessarily convinced that it incrementally helps with their recruitment efforts but it certainly gives people a positive association with the company name. Everyone who's graduated from INSEAD recently always remembers their own Welcome Week Bain party with a smile. That can't be a bad thing.


Don't think there are too many pictures from the event as most people knew better than to bring any electronic items (phones, cameras etc.) to the party as there's often a very high chance they'll get wet... The best memories are all in our heads though, right where they belong.

FBL guys: You really missed out. Just ask anyone who was there. ;)



P.S. Probably the only downside was the fact that the bar staff at Cafe Del Mar were simply downright rude and pissed off a lot of us as some of them clearly had an attitude problem. If I were the management, I would seriously try to address this issue because there's no way we'll want to go back to drop the kind of money that we did there if they are going to spoil the evening with their surliness.