The Border of My World: Cambridge Life

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9 Mar 2015

Duck in the Formal

This is quite Cambridge-like.

Duck in the Formal.

8 Oct 2014

talks.cam is one of the best tools to find peculiar scientific talks in Cambridge

Thanks to talk.cam, I joined a lot of talks on scientific talks. This is highly recommended to those who want to join a lot of talks in different colleges in Cambridge, or even when you are fed up with your course readings. You will get new ideas of the world, or even may encounter an entrepreneurial opportunity.

How easy to register? Very and actually open to everyone, not exclusive to Cambridge studetns. Just make your own list from here and subscribe it via ical/vcal in the list page: http://talks.cam.ac.uk/list/new
and add talks you find interesting through the search engine: http://talks.cam.ac.uk/search
and/or add (Like Follow in Twitter) other's list. For example, I've followed:

Cambridge is definitely a cluster of creativity.

8 Sept 2014

The Oxbridge ways / オックスブリッジの流儀

The Japanese series about 'Oxbridge ways' are now on the Internet here.
I may be able to contribute in the future.

現代ビジネスのオンライン企画として、「オックスブリッジの流儀」という連載が始まりました。Cambridge MBAの同期もさっそく原稿を書いています。「友がみなわれよりえらく見ゆる日」でもありますが、ワタクシも実世界で何かしらの花を咲かしてからしたしもうと思います。
http://gendai.ismedia.jp/articles/-/40295

The Cam River and Silicon Fen.

1 Sept 2014

Done!! and moving to London soon

Today 2pm, the final assignment for Cambridge MBA has been done. In two weeks or so, we will move to London. Nevertheless, it has been absolutely unique and great fun to live in Cambridge.

I won't forget the room and house where I stayed with my partner while Cambridge MBA.

13 Jul 2014

The Centre for Computing History

The voluntarily-run museum is a bit away from the city centre, but really worth visiting if you play with computers such as:

Punch cards for the IBM computers in the 70s

MSX by Toshiba in 1984

The 'Woz Edition' Apple II GS

NES playing the Super Mario Bros!!

Family Computer we played a lot when elementary school.

Yet, do not use a laptop too long in the restroom :-)

1 Jul 2014

Half-year reflection of 2014 Targets and its revision

The first half of 2014 is over; now is the time for self-reflection. Looking back what I've promised as 2014 Targets,

Grow peppermint: tried but unfortunately eaten by snails... (50%)
Practice golfing: went two games, with the best score of 154 (75%)
Complete the Cambridge MBA course: obtained the Lent term average mark of slightly over 70, largely thanks to the efforts made for the Global Consulting Project (80%; yet final marks are to be confirmed within a few months)
Write its final dissertation among economics, corporate governance, and network theory: this should be completed in the coming months [TBD]
Confirm a place on MPhil in behavioural science, social science, or economics: still waiting; this should have been confirmed by the end of June [TBD]
Draft a story of Science Fiction in my native tongue: nothing progressed (0%)

Overall, the Lent term plus GCP (Jan - Apr) was the time of studying hard, and finally the Easter term with many electives gave me room for doing other stuff.

My revised goals for the 2H 2014 are:

Keep exercise every week, possibly golfing and swimming;
Complete the Cambridge MBA with writing up the final dissertation on 'innovation and corporate governance' (with the aim of achieving the Best MBA Dissertation Award);
Confirm a place, likely in London, for researching management in the UK while working on the entrepreneurial project with the guys from the Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge;
Draft a story of Science Fiction.

Magdalene College, Cambridge, UK

30 Jun 2014

Talks/Seminars/Conferences around Cambridge in June 2014

Finally reached hundred!!

Newmarket, UK

The number of participations per month has been fluctuated due to the MBA burdens, and shows obviously negative correlation with the burdens: exams, assignments, and projects (weighted as three assignments).

Full List

#97: Who are the sentiment traders? Evidence from the cross-section of stock returns and demand +++
#98: Investor Composition and Liquidity: An Analysis of Japanese Stocks +++
#99: What is life? ++++
#100: Molecular Genetics of Economic Decision Making. ++++

28 Jun 2014

The end of the Easter term - now it's done except for summer activities which is nevertheless a lot to go.

The Easter term was officially completed yesterday. This term was overall great (with a few exceptional mistakes) in terms of the quality learning I've had with the four electives (Biotech and Pharma, Lean Six Sigma, Behavioural Finance, and New Venture Finance) and two core courses (Microeconomics and Corporate Governance and Ethics), not to mention Leadership in action :-p

The electives are either very practical (Lean Six Sigma / New Venture Finance) or thorough and holistic to the subjects (Biotech and Pharma / Behavioural Finance). The discussions in the Corporate Governance and Ethics were deep enough to stimulate my interest in the field further.

For the MBA programme, my plan for summer is (1) to write up a dissertation of 6,000 words on innovation and corporate governance, and (2) to complete a Lean Six Sigma project with Fitzwilliam Museum Cafe to get the LSS certification of Green Belt for the first week of July.

In addition to these activities, I will continue (3) to work on the entrepreneurial project (H2GO Power) as a member of founders given I will keep staying in the UK for the coming year. Also I've decided (4) to join Summer School programmes at the University of Cambridge on Science Term II (11:00am-12:30pm for 20 July - 2 Aug, and Interdisciplinary Term III (9:00am-3:15pm for 3 Aug - 16 Aug).

In short, what I will do this summer are: