the calm after the storm

after 10 weeks of B-school, i was able to sleep at 11pm yesterday. the Financial Management exam was finished and we had a day of lecture before another quiz in Quantitative Analysis tomorrow. it was so far one of my best sleep. i woke up around 6 am very fresh but tired of the prospect of the next few days before the weekend. luckily for us in the 16-month MBA, the faculty seems to have seen the burnout from our batch. they kinda loosened a bit of the schedule and postponed some stuff for us. it really was a bit too much... to many numbers flying around, with very little time to research your data. we were missing classes either to catch up on sleep or to study. and if we were in class, we were half-asleep or we haven't read anything. one batchmate told me he hasn't been reading any cases recently, just studying for the exams. although it seems strategic, it undermines the case method which is the same one used in the top B-schools like Stanford U. this makes me question the 16-month program. is AIM really ready for the 16-month program? or are we just labs rats? and so i relax for a few hours, so i may study again for statistics!
BTW, an MBA survey by Beyond the Grey Pinstripes (yeah such a long name), ranked AIM as 42 overall in the world. And guess what? INSEAD and Thunderbird, trail after AIM! Check it out at http://www.beyondgreypinstripes.org.