The Chauw Experience

 “First of all ehmmm”(in Victor’s Voice)  I would like to welcome you all to LBS and promise you it’s going to be a wonderful and exciting experience ... “No Long Thing”
My experience in the First year was really exciting meeting lots of interesting people and facilitators. I remember the brush up period when we were all looking fresh and clean

Me during brush up...

( I used to go to Lekki Phase one to have my hair cut...I never hala yet)...staying up all night reading my brush up binder (J.J.C) and forming fresh kid on the block...LMAO...then could remember everyone was participating in class..Feeling intelligent... The party at Ozioma’s house (oh Lord that Goat meat ehn)... Buchi’s Birthday party... Gidado’s Birthday party me, Sweezy, Jonathan trips at Elegushi... damn we were ruling the world...the MBA program wasn’t as bad as I thought... then October came!!!
ABP... For the first time in my life I felt dumb (instead of reading my case study hand book I was busy finding babe)... Spent a full month without participating in ABP class (Thank God for Ayo Momodu’s Chewing gum... if not ehn)... I remember when my name was mentioned by Yetunde among those that had low class participation in ABP, I felt like my world was crashing... I had to get my priorities right.
 

Me and GE Financial Advisor

Okonjo Iweala and I

Reckitt Benckiser CEO and I

Career fair with Muyiwa

CFA... Dr Owolabi’s cold calls... hmmmmm... just make sure you read your cases.
Management Communication was cool maybe because I loved writing.
Business Ethics was the bomb... Never felt so intelligent like when I participated in that class (give the facilitator what they want)... Thanks to Biggy Chu that gave me the push to talk on a controversial issue during Business Ethics Class (Biggy that doesn’t mean...our war is still on).
Met some interesting guys in my class like Raymond, Jide, Jonathan, kingsley “Fruit Salad”, Gbolahan, Mayowa, Muyiwa, Asonye, Ogunlesi, Ezeh BoBo, Dotun, Morah, Davido, Allen, JMJ, AdeBee, Emmanuel, Othuko, Samuel, Terseel, Seun, Gidado Dusty, Michael and many more interesting girls (Uju I see u)
I enjoyed Networking with the EMBA’s and SMPS (You do not know when you would need such Networks)
By the time the heat was being turned up and cases started getting longer... Everyone forgot their fine boy status (Jungle done Mature)... even those that participated well before stated yarning dust (“Please discontinue” in Owolabi’s Voice)... I remember the night of ABP exam, staying up all night at Abbey's house till 1am trying to solve the case with almost 60% of the class... Drinking coffee to the point coffee made me sleep deeper... Staying up till 3am reading CMA cases (Prestige Telecoms) and EEB (Interest rate aligned after all)... not forgetting career session... which can be annoying especially when you have 4 cases to analyse the next day (Apart from Reckitt’s Career Day and the special gift *winks*winks*)
By the Third Term everyone had blended into the system... No forming... Always merry (Gazebo Things Fridays)... Tunji’s Strategy class were our eyes were open (Golden Handcuff things)... Marketing Research Class (Lounging)... Damn the first year was fun.
Advice for you all... Make friends... Don’t see participation as competition... Strive to add value to yourself... Learn and most of all Network.
 
See you all soon...
Mr Chauw “No long Thing”