First day of classes...

... and again, many impressions, partly impressive but some also a bit disappointing. To start with the rather bad news, classes are a lot bigger than I expected. The counselor and international students girl told us that we should expect class sizes of 20 to 30 students but apparently the courses we chose are followed by 50 or more students. I guess still not a surprisingly high number if you take NYU's sheer size into consideration. I attended a Damodaran class, Corporate Finance, and guess what, 300(!) other students were enjoying his performance! (He is the real star of the university) A day earlier we already saw him but mistankenly thought he was some sort of technical assistant for his really young appearance. Gladly, we didn't tell him that! ;-) However, I will not be taking his class as I heard the topic before and apparently our professor (Chavez) did an excellent job having even a comparable style to Damodaran.

The other classes I had were impressive for both the quality of professors and students. I guess an exciting and also stressful semester lies ahead as the first readings remember me of the second term at IE. Participation is a lot less important :-(. Cold calling is done often (Sorry Karim, for you it would be the land of C's) and grades are curved comparably to IE!

Ah, one thing that really bothers e about NY, you never find a bar when you need one! If you decide to take a drink in Madrid, its 25 meters max to the next bar and here we walk for ages until we find a crappy little place selling a beer at 5$! Not good!