I've had a brutal couple of weeks, with classes six days a week (for which there's plenty of reading to be done), at least one assignment due every week, and many syndicate meetings to plan, prepare for, and attend. Now, fortunately, (to borrow a phrase from the baseball lexicon) we're on the home stretch, with only two more weeks of classes and then one week of exams to go.
I'm also down to two assignments that are still due: a Leadership & Change assignment due this Friday (23rd) and an Implementation of Strategy assignment due next Wednesday (28th). Both are excellent assignments but both require quite a bit of work.
The L&C assignment, for example, is to write an essay about our personal leadership challenge: the one that we all identified in the first week of the course and have since been working on. That may sound simple but, if you've been through the course, you'll know that it isn't. It's also supposed to be 3,000 words long (not including the bibliography and appendices) so it's to a really comprehensive essay as well.
The IoS assignment, meanwhile, is to write a case (complete with teaching note) about a real strategy implementation that, preferably, at least one member of our syndicate is closely connected with (e.g. this happened/is happening in a company that this person worked/is working for). That, as you might imaging, is again quite challenging. It's one thing to read a case and learn from it, it's quite another to write a case and then write what should be learnt from it! It is quite a lot of fun, though.
Still, with only two assignments, three weeks, and four final exams [1] to go before the start of the summer break, I can't help but feel a little exhilarated. The home stretch is, after all, exciting. No less brutal, of course, but still exciting. In the light-at-the-end-of-the-tunnel kind of way.
[1] L&C doesn't have a final exam. The leadership challenge essay is our final exam. And it should be: it's worth 40% of our grade!