US University Application Timeline
Now, this is where things get a little tricky. I could not emphasize enough how important it is to keep thing organized. So, what I did in the past was to prepare a spreadsheet (you can do whatever that fits…
US Education–What Makes It Different From Others
The information here are mostly from my personal experience. I had went through the whole process back in those days, and also from other applicants that I helped out with – my friends and aspiring applicants who contacted me. I…
The Fall of MF Global and the Greece Issue
MF Global Holdings is the latest of the high profile bankruptcies that I had been reading on. In many ways, its fall was quite similar to Lehman Brothers. I attributed its collapse to two main cause – overleveraging and weak…
Dell Customer Service
I had been away from the blogging scene for some time. It wasn’t because I was particularly busy, but my laptop was sent to repair at the Dell Depot Center. A little story about this current laptop of mine. I…
Entrepreneurship & Guts
(Shanghai, China) Always have a dream in sight and reach for it. Not sure if I ever mentioned this before but during my last semester in college, I took up a course on Entrepreneurship and its semester long group project…
GIS Taiwan 2011
(Shanghai, China) Ping An Insurance – Wow, it’s headquarter is extremely beautiful. I’d been accepted to the GIS 2011 conference again. I’d attended it during 2009 and meet great friends, and interacted with smarter peers. This year, my entry was…
Young, gifted and blocked
Korea needs fewer wage slaves and more entrepreneurs EARLIER this year Humax, a maker of digital set-top boxes based in Seoul, announced that its annual revenues had exceeded 1 trillion won ($865m) for the first time. For South Korea, this…
Competitive Strategy Game: Week 8, 9 & 10
(Washington DC) Home to American policies’ decision making Almost a month had passed by since this game ended. My memory of the thought process that went into making the decisions is a little hazy by now. After Week 10 results…
Graduation
(Ann Arbor, Michigan) Big Stadium – The Michigan Difference For today, goodbye. For tomorrow, good luck. And forever, Go Blue! I had been slow updating about my life recently. It was not the lack of content, rather the lack of…
BP Trading Simulation Challenge
(Sandusky, Ohio) Crash and burn. I saw the BP’s participation certificate tucked somewhere on my table and decided to recount the event that occurred few weeks ago. BP came to campus and provide a trading simulation exercise on crude oil.…