1/31 Catching Up

Please forgive me for the following rant... but since this is Super Bowl weekend, I simply cannot pass up the opportunity to rally as many people as I can against these New England (Spygate!) Patriots this Sunday. Everything from their arrogant head coach (Bellicheat!) to their pretty boy quarterback ("Shady" Tom Brady) just rubs me the wrong way. They are fast becoming the Yankees of the NFL, and that's not a good thing!

I suppose there are still going to be the funny beer commercials, but if this game gets out of hand by the first quarter, I am going to turn on my Wii and take out my anger on the digital Patriots in Madden 08 ;)

ROUND 2 ADD/DROP FOR ELECTIVES
By now, everyone should have logged back into OLR to check on your status of their various waitlists you signed up for from last week. Remember that as spaces become available, we will continue to add you from this ranked waitlist on a daily basis.

Remember that if you are no longer interested in course that you are waitlisted for, please log back into OLR to drop yourself out of that waitlist. This will help us clear the waitlists much faster, and add only those who are still truly interested in that particular course.

Lastly, the deadline for Round 2 of Add/Drops will be this coming Monday, 2/4/08 at 11:59 pm. All waitlists will then be processed one final time the following day. This will then conclude all add/drops for the remainder of this semester.

INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGE INFORMATION SESSIONS
If you're interested in participating in the International Exchange Program next Fall, we will be conducting information sessions next week. Here are the dates and times:

Wednesday, Feb 6th, 7:30 - 8:15pm in S489
Thursday, Feb 7th, 7:30 - 8:15pm in S489

There won't be any official sessions for Saturday, but I will be here this Saturday and next, so just stop by the program office on either day if you have any questions about the Exchange Program.

For those of you who want to read up more about the International Exchange Program for the time being, please check out our website:

http://haas.berkeley.edu/EWMBA/EWMBAexchange.html

SATURDAY COHORTS
So, we're here again this Saturday. Parking should be OK, but let's just hope it's not going to be raining too hard!

Also, FYI... lunch will be served at the Bank of America Forum, so go there instead.

BIRTHDAY CELEBRATIONS

Sanjay Krishnan, January 31
Eliane Setton, January 31
Michael McFerran, February 2
Jarlin Sung, February 2
Chandler Kneer, February 3
Benedict Chong, February 4
Laurent Devilbiss, February 4
Jeff Lipton, February 4
Isabel Ge, February 5

DID YOU KNOW?
There are always so many things going on here at Haas that it's hard to keep track of them all. But, did you know, Haas Media Services has a "Video Room" site that currently houses many of our speaker series/guest lectures that recently took place here at Haas? To view the library, go to this website:

http://www.haas.berkeley.edu/haas/video_room/

That's it from me!

Siu Yung Wong
Assistant Director
Haas School of BusinessEvening & Weekend MBA Program
(510) 643-0592