I feel sad: I have made my decission about Admits Weekend. The choice is as clear as day, but still I will miss the weekend. Forgive me Oh Lord of the MBAs, but I will not attend the Admits Weekend. I would love to be there, get to know my future classmates, feel the ambiance of the school, enjoy the party,…
But it is too far away! One of the problems with California is the distance to Europe. It is not “just the other coast of the USA”, as some of my less travelled friends put it. Some people even think that “If I need 7 hours to get to NY (from Spain), California is about 8h tops”. No way! The USA is a huge country, the country that invented domestic redeye flights.
The friends at Great Circle Mapper, can help me to illustrate my point:
From San Francisco Airport SFO (37°37′08″N 122°22′30″W) to London Heathrow LHR (51°28′39″N 00°27′41″W) there is a distance of 8638 km. In the map, the clear regions are closer to London than SFO, and the shadowed are more remote.
Guess what? Silicon Valley is the epicenter of the hightech world, but it is very far away from being the center of the World like London (Have I read too many times the “London Advantage” part of the brochure?). More remote than half of South America, India, most of Africa, half of Madagascar and even Kamchatka. I would actually spend more time on the plane alone than in Admits Weekend related activities. That alone makes no sense to me, specially when my decision to attend LBS is as solid as rock.
Sorry my future classmates, but we will catch up in person at the begining of the year! In the meantime, let’s just keep us posted electronically!
April 25th, 2006 at 12:26 pm
Oh no…. so sorry to hear you’re not coming to the Open Weekend, it promises to be a blast!
April 25th, 2006 at 1:37 pm
So sad! We will definitely toast to the adbsent admits and I will post pics and an extensive report on my blog afterwards. When are you planning to move to London? I think of moving there about mid-August to have enough time to party before classes start.
April 25th, 2006 at 4:00 pm
Thanks Patxi.
I will miss all you LBS students.
I made good friends among you and I am sure it is a great community.
Hope everything turns ok and I will see you next year.
Cheers!
Benny
April 25th, 2006 at 8:57 pm
that stinks but I completely understand as CA is far from Europe…luckly, my brother is getting married the weekend after admit weekend in Belfast so my trip kinda works itself out.
When are you planning on moving to London? I am shooting for later July/Early August
April 26th, 2006 at 4:16 pm
Thanks for the comment & email! That will be a ton of help.
Marina
May 2nd, 2006 at 10:41 pm
Hi Patxi!
So nice of you to drop by my blog
Unfortunately, I won’t be able to attend the Admits Weekend too! 
I don’t know how to do that fancy map you have here, but suffice to say that flying 16-hours from Manila, Philippines sure is faaaaaar!! I guess we just have to make do with reading/hearing about it from those who will be there!
I’m soooo glad to know that alot of us are foodies too! I’m sure we’ll have a blast sampling all the great food London has to offer!
I’m looking forward to meeting you!!
May 22nd, 2006 at 12:17 pm
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