I'm back and I'm sure!

Tuck's ASW was a blast! I met phenomenal people and had a really good time!
The weekend (Thursday evening till Sunday morning) was packed with activities and it is just impossible to mention them all, but I want at least share some of my impressions with you:

Including the partners we were ~250 people who attended ASW and if you take into account the 1st and 2nd year students and their partners we were a big crowd that was running around on the campus - but everything was perfectly organized BY THE STUDENTS!!!

William Achtmeyer (T'81, Chairman + Managing Partner, The Parthenon Group) was the keynote speaker and he did a great job! His speech was very entertaining and showed how much he loves Tuck. LOL... he even brought his Tuck shirt when he climbed Mount Kilimanjaro. So, unlike the Harvard alums who were with him, he was able to take a picture and prooved "Tuck reaches the top of Africa" :)

All alums (there were a lot during ASW!!!) and faculty stuff were very approachable. Want an example? Here it is: On Friday we had dinner at 2nd year houses. I had mine at Sachem Village... nice house, nice people(~15)... and Dean Danos and his wife were there too! How many prospective MBA students of other schools can say they had dinner and a nice chat about all the world and his brother with the Dean of their school during ASW???

I had my mock class with Prof. Kevin L. Keller (marketing) and am already looking forward to having real classes with him!

Section 5, one of the two Tuck bands, played at the party on Friday at the Hopkins Center and I have to say: THESE GUYS ROCK!!!

A 1st year student who was sitting on the panel of Friday's Women in Business Club breakfast had an internship interview the very same day. And although she had to leave at 8:50 am to catch the Dartmouth coach at 9:00 am she didn't wanted to let her classmates down and came to share with us her point of view... what a commitment!

We had snow... LOL... so the weekend was a real Tuck experience, although snowstorms in April seem to be quite unusual...

And one last thing that expresses exactly what I'm thinking: In Chicago, when I was boarding my connection flight back to Tokyo, a woman saw my new school shirt (LOL... of course I was wearing it ;), pointed at it and said to her husband: "That's a very good school!"