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La vida es sue\u00f1o<\/strong><\/h3>\n\u00bfQu\u00e9 es la vida? Un frenes\u00ed
\n\u00bfQu\u00e9 es la vida? Una ilusi\u00f3n,
\nUna sombra, una ficci\u00f3n
\nY el mayor bien es peque\u00f1o:
\nQue toda la vida es sue\u00f1o,
\nY los sue\u00f1os, sue\u00f1os son.<\/p>\n
(Calder\u00f3n de la Barca, Pedro. La vida es sue\u00f1o)<\/p>\n
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What is life? A frenzy.
\nWhat is life? A vain hope, a shadow, a fiction.
\nThe greatest good is fleeting,
\nfor all life is a dream
\nand even dreams are but dreams.<\/p>\n
(Calder\u00f3n de la Barca, Pedro. Life\u2019s a dream. Prose translation and critical introduction by Michael Kidd. Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2004)<\/p>\n
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As I started writing my column for the Student’s Journal of BBS, it came to my mind this passage from Pedro Calderon de la Barca\u2019s play. Immediately I thought: \u201cSometimes we are so involved in our daily lives and problems, that we often lose track of our own life and forget its meaning. If we allow ourselves a “pause”, it helps us to regain strength and generate an intrapersonal space that refreshes our senses\u201d. What could be better for us than taking that time<\/p>\n
Having this clear, I decided to apply for the Global Master of BBS in Bologna-Italy. However, it had been a long time since I had left the academic life, and it remembered me the moments when one has to pick a career, a university, and to wait the news of the acceptation. Strikingly, the feelings: the energy, the excitement, and the courage were the same as when I was eighteen years old.<\/p>\n
Why I chose BBS in Bologna, Italy? Because I consider that the \u201cItalian\u201d experience of a master in business will help me to reach the two goals I wanted to fulfill: First, an improvement on a professional level that will allow me to be competitive in my career, develop new skills, learn new professional tools, and improve my future earnings, among other things. Second, to me the master has also to contribute to my personal enrichment.<\/p>\n
I am not wrong in saying that most of my colleagues and myself included, have come to Bologna to live all the experience that means studying a Master in the city with the oldest university in the Western world. Known as the Dotta (by the university), the Grassa (for good food), the Rossa (by the color of their roofs) and Turrita (by the number of towers in the city). BBS has proven to be all what we expected, and more: welcoming, challenging, and enriching.<\/p>\n
I come from a professional management experience in the restaurant sector in Peru, a country that has a vast and diverse gastronomy, and that is creating an important food industry. Performing a Global MBA focused in \u201cFood and Wine\u201d in Italy, allows me not only to get important skills in classrooms, but also a life-experience that is profoundly enrichening my life, my ideas of the world of food and beverages industry, and my \u201cknow-how\u201d. I am certain that when I am back in my country I will be able to apply all this knowledge in my country.<\/p>\n
These first two months in Bologna have flown by. My classmates and colleagues are becoming my friends. It is true that I have many things in common with them, but as we all come from different backgrounds from all over the world (Yemen, Ecuador, Italy, India, Uganda, USA, Colombia, Guatemala, Ethiopia, Ivory Coast, Hong Kong, China, Vietnam, etc.), it is our differences what I value the most. Going every day to Villa Guastavillani is a pleasure both for the location (you have to see the Villa\u2019s photos!), and because our professors have extensive experience in their fields. I’m learning a lot in class!<\/p>\n
I can tell you that every day is hard work (as in the last two weeks preparing the midterms of Corporate Finance and International Finance). Right now I\u2019m just finishing studying at the Central Library \u201cSala Borsa\u201d, and as every day I left this amazing building after listening to a guy playing the piano with covers of Green Day or the Godfather. Walking home I will see the \u201cFontana di Nettuno\u201d on Piazza Maggiore, pass along the Annual Fair of Chocolate, and think that life passes like a dream, and, to me, this is one of its best scene.<\/p>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\nSaida Luz Flores Haboud \u2013 Peru
\nGlobal MBA Food and Wine<\/a> \u2013 class 2015\/2016<\/p>\n
\nDecember 4, 2015<\/p>\n
Why BBS?<\/strong><\/h3>\nWhy did I pick BBS? For some people it can be a tough choice to select a business school. For me, it was a no-brainer! There are only few business schools that offer MBA with tracks like Design, Fashion and Luxury Goods, and Bologna Business School happens to be one of them.<\/p>\n
Located in the 16th century Villa Guastavillani, this business school is not your regular university campus. As part of the oldest university known to the Western world, it combines centuries of academic experience and modern innovation.<\/p>\n
What gives it a competitive edge, however, is the fact that you have a choice of having an internship at one of the leading designer houses; be exposed to a multicultural classroom environment, and get a true \u201ctaste\u201d of Italy, figuratively and literally.<\/p>\n
Due to international nature of this MBA, I got to meet people from 5 different continents. I got an opportunity to work with them, learn from them, and understand cultural differences<\/p>\n
Global companies constantly invest time and money into \u201cmanaging cross border business\u201d studies, and here we are, learning it all firsthand! I look forward to my MBA year ahead and excited about this international experience.<\/p>\n
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\n\u00bfQu\u00e9 es la vida? Una ilusi\u00f3n,
\nUna sombra, una ficci\u00f3n
\nY el mayor bien es peque\u00f1o:
\nQue toda la vida es sue\u00f1o,
\nY los sue\u00f1os, sue\u00f1os son.<\/p>\n
\nWhat is life? A vain hope, a shadow, a fiction.
\nThe greatest good is fleeting,
\nfor all life is a dream
\nand even dreams are but dreams.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/p>\nSaida Luz Flores Haboud \u2013 Peru December 4, 2015<\/p>\n Why did I pick BBS? For some people it can be a tough choice to select a business school. For me, it was a no-brainer! There are only few business schools that offer MBA with tracks like Design, Fashion and Luxury Goods, and Bologna Business School happens to be one of them.<\/p>\n Located in the 16th century Villa Guastavillani, this business school is not your regular university campus. As part of the oldest university known to the Western world, it combines centuries of academic experience and modern innovation.<\/p>\n What gives it a competitive edge, however, is the fact that you have a choice of having an internship at one of the leading designer houses; be exposed to a multicultural classroom environment, and get a true \u201ctaste\u201d of Italy, figuratively and literally.<\/p>\n Due to international nature of this MBA, I got to meet people from 5 different continents. I got an opportunity to work with them, learn from them, and understand cultural differences<\/p>\n Global companies constantly invest time and money into \u201cmanaging cross border business\u201d studies, and here we are, learning it all firsthand! I look forward to my MBA year ahead and excited about this international experience.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
\nGlobal MBA Food and Wine<\/a> \u2013 class 2015\/2016<\/p>\n
\nWhy BBS?<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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