Graduate!

I am sorry for not keeping this blog very active recently but I had so many things in mind and to do, like packing for example! Anyway, I am very pleased to inform you all that I officially graduated from Linköping University!

"Bachelor of Business Administration - International"

The ceremony was very pleasant as well as the lunch we had right after! I am very proud and I'd like to congratulate once again everybody from the Atlantis Program after everything we have "been through" (even if my atlantis experience was as smooth as possible personnally!).

The first phase of the Programme is now definitely over and on overall it is an incredible experience that I don't regret. It helped me become a lot more mature and I think I got a little bit americanized as well as swedishized (copyright to myself)!! Hanging out with the american a lot was very interesting and I know their culture much better now, which explains a lot of stereotypes we see negatively from our european perspective. On the other side, living in sweden helped me getting routines, and organizing my time! I had a budget to track my expenses, I used to go to the gym regularly, was preparing food for the entire week and had strict planning for the thesis work (and we always were on time so I think it worked pretty well).
Nevertheless, the contact with swedes has not been intense so these are just very simple things. I regret not to have talked much swedish even if I had 6 swede in my corridor, but they speak such a good english that you don't feel forced to speak swedish... I will definitely miss Sweden, especially now that the weather is so nice and everybody so excited about it, but I will participate to the traditional midsommer with some of the atlantis students thanks to Johanna!

Final Seminar

The long-awaited day of the final seminar is now behind me! After weeks of intense studying and stress, I feel very relieved now that it is done! First of all, I would like to congratulate all the Atlantis students for passing the thesis, and thank our teachers for the smooth running of the class. I know some students were very worried about the thesis and absolutely not confident in passing, but in the end everybody passed!!

That was a very interesting day, even if the discussion tended to go off track sometimes, but in a whole the discussion was good and pretty much everybody participated! Linnea and Connor were our opponents (or "discussants", teachers say) and they did a good job by questionning us on things we did not think about and that were very relevant. I'd like to adress special congratulations to Mr. Greenberg, whose thesis we had to review, and had an excellent defense despite some unlucky facts that made his work almost impossible to complete. This kid is brilliant.

Finally, I am very happy that Per and I passed the thesis! Per did a great job, almost keeping me on track and motivating me with some swedish organizational skills, that was a real pleasure to carry this work out with such a good student, and a good friend. We did not only passed but also had an A! That was totally unexpected and I am very proud of our work! The thesis remains a very good experience, even if sometimes it felt very very academical (way different from the way business is taught at ECE), there was a real knowledge creation process.