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WHAT THE SCHULICH iMBA DOES TO YOU
... AFTER 8 MONTHS
Nina Drakul & Martin Bonert
E-mailed to the iMBA '06 class
Monday, April 18th, 2005 ("INTL 6300 Week")
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Posted with authors' permission

Editor's Note: Exams finished just last week.  Papers have been handed in.  8 months of MBA hell are coming to an end.  We're ready to go abroad to enjoy our exchange programs, or travel a little before the internship starts.  But ... We get an email from the IMBA office - all of a sudden we have an intensive class in IT & Operations Mgmt that we need to start immediately, the week after exams, for 6 hours a day, Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday.  Oh - and a 3 hour 602 workshop.

Our commentators: Nina Drakul is one of the good-natured & cheerful IMBA '06 girls, Martin Bonert, our resident tech expert and 2005 class rep-elect.

Nina:  Is there a hotline you can call when you feel that somebody is raping your brain? Or is there anti-virus when the school attacks your human CPU and memory and racks the system?

Martin:  Hi, Nina.  I'm a little pressed for time, but I can recommend the "software" you need to install to protect your mind from this virus called INTL6300.  Unfortunately the software environment schulichXP is a little buggy, with only beta versions of 602 and other programs.

I would recommend regular updates of the MS Alcohol, followed by a rare program (at least for schulichXP) called Sleep. Unfortunately schulichXP has some problems with the Sleep function.

Another program that runs better and also tends to be incompatible with schulichXP is MS Party, and ocassionally causes abrupt system crashes (ussually in conjuction with MS Alcohol).

Finally you can look forward to the next upgrade release for Internship 2005 and Exchange 2005. These will becoming out next Monday. Unfortunately the installation process is quite involved and requires registering and dealing with INTL6300 and some other INTL varieties.

Both Internship 2005 and Exchange 2005 promise to make schulichXP more stable and help with the sleep function.

Note: This is a trial version of Humour Plus++, and was written by tired overworked programmers. Debugging is limited and you milage may vary. This program comes with no WARRANTY what soever, and definitely no Friday night security breach, patches (which are incompatible with MS Alcohol and MS Party, which will be running at that time). No, I don't have a 6:30 pm Tee off time.

Good night and see you Wednesday... I need to read my 602 case.. (see interference with sleep function above...)

Martin.

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