Following Week One of Class

We have just completed our first full week of classes and first homework packed weekend. As Scott and Corey have said—team building in week one was excellent to see where each of us came from and what we were looking for out of this program. The business prep academy in week two further continued with the 12 of us getting to know each other –you can’t really avoid it when you spend the week driving around in a 15 passenger van. That brought us to our first full week of classes.

Now, we knew going in that it was going to be a challenging program. We knew we were going to be spending a lot of time doing homework and not have much of a social life, especially these first few weeks with condensed classes—that’s what we signed up for. But there’s only so many hours in a week—so we’ve spent some time trying to figure out a schedule for this program that is going to allow us to get the most out of it that we can and also meet faculty expectations. Probably the coolest thing about being the “guinea pigs” and trying to set a high standard for the FIMBA program has been working with the faculty and administration to try and get this program to be the best that it can possibly be. It has been cool to see our concerns and offered solutions considered so carefully. Everyone has been so respectful, honest and flexible of everyone else that I have high hopes for the future of both our cohort and future ones.

On another note, I think this first class week has really set the bar on how we are going to interact with each other throughout the next 13.25 months. I feel like I spend all day with my “FIMBA friends” and then I go home and talk to them via phone, texting, Facebook chat, Wimba, or video chat. No one is afraid to ask questions or say that they don’t understand what is going on. We truly do support one another in order to reach our maximum potential.

Also, I was asked to post this: a potential catchphrase, as mentioned today in our morning class—“WE ARE FIMBA”. Kind of like WE ARE SPARTA…. Just throwing it out there J