Jukka, Nick and me started our hiking tour at Hatleberg at 10am today. We climbed up to Kvitebjørnen and walked from their along the plane to Fløyen, ate our sandwhiches and went down to Bergen “sentrum”. After a nice coffee on the greens in front of the opera we walked back to Hatleberg. All in all a 6 hour hike, 5 hours of walking.
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Continue Reading 1 comment September 3rd, 2005
Tor Aase Johannessen presented the outline of the course and the entrepreneurial ventures, on which we will be working. This course is not a lecture in the common sense - we will be divided into groups of 6 students and will work each with a different company. We will then have to write business plans, market studies and other things as group tasks.
I will most probably choose NoWire - a IT research company in Bergen, run by a Professor of the University - and Life Care (I will then get one of these assigned). At the end of the semester we wil have to deliver a 50-70 pages report as a group - so each of us will have to contribute around 10 pages.
Sounds like a lot of work for this semester…
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We had our second debating session with our Kitchen Chamber Debating Society at 6pm in Aud. 12 in NHH. And the motions before the house were: “This house would introduce school uniforms” and “This house would allow same-sex couples to adopt children”. The debates were great fun and everybody had a very good start. I am very much looking forward to the next debates of the semester. Click on “continue reading” to see photos.
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The first Project Management course was really crowded (~100 students) - people were even sitting on the steps. Professor Katarina Østergren explained her eductional concept: a combination of regular lectures and seminars in smaller groups (~30 students). Seminars will be held on even weeks and lectures on the odd ones. She also announced a heavy workload. We will have to write 5 papers compromising ~6 pages - one every two weeks to be handed in before the seminar sessions! In addition to these we will have to prepare a group-presentation of one of the articles and there will be an exam at the end!
Many students said that they will choose another course due to the workload, so the group might shrink to around 70 students. The subject seems very interesting and is presented with many links to real-world projects - I think it is worth the effort.
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Today was the first session of Petroleum Economics. Professor Rögnvaldur Hannesson announced a math-heavy modelbased approach (suits me perfectly) to this field of economics and gave an overview of the oil market, prices and current forecasts. You can download the lecture outline & reading list here.
The course is much bigger than Business Location Decisions with around 80 people - but hopefully some students will drop out.
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We - that’s Nick (New Zealand), Tobias (Austria), Jukka (Finland) and me - started at NHH on Wednesday at 2.30 pm under light rain and arrived at Lysefjord at around 7pm with not so light rain. On the way we took three ferries and drove around 250km. We stayed at a camping near Preikestolen and paid 300 NOK for a car plus tent.
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I couldn’t find any English speaking debating society in Bergen, so I decided to found a society of my own - the Kitchen Chamber Debating Society. Nick and I recruited around ten exchange students to debate with us in British parliamentary style. Today was our first session in our kitchen at Hatleberg. I introduced the concept of debating and the rules to everybody and we had our first debate.
Continue Reading 1 comment August 23rd, 2005
I started courses today. This week will be rather quiet with only one course (one session today and another on Wednesday).
We were only 10 students in the course “Business Location Decision” - amazing! We all introduced ourselves - that never happened in Germany! Professor Eirik Vatne is nice and started the course with a broad approach to the questions, we will be dealing with during the semester.
The literature for the semester can be found online in the it’s learning - a website for NHH-students and a compendium that includes all articles and chapters that are not online. The compendium is sold for 200 NOK at the compendium utsalgt.
Add comment August 22nd, 2005
All exchange students were invited into the represantative room of Norges Handelhøyskole for the matriculation ceremony: the Stupet. The regular norwegian students don’t get to see the Stupet for their matriculation ceremony - it’s a great honour to see this 100 years old room.
Deputy Rector Gunnar E. Christensen held a speech and handed out the matriculation certificates to everybody along with a short hand-shake.
(1) the Stupet
(2) Andre on the balcony of the Stupet
(3) The Deputy Rector during his speech
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We went again to same place swimming, but as you can see: the group is much bigger! Swimming in Bergen is not something for crazy people, but possible for everybody.
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