3 months plan, active forums, etc.

• The meeting with my manager last Friday went well. He asked me to put together a schedule for the next 3 months detailing my vacatoin plans, leave of absence, etc. This is done. Emailed him and awaiting his feedback.
  
  
• I joined the B-school intranet student discussion forum. Among the discussion forum participants, there are many international students. Should be lots of fun. Some from India, US, Italy, Germany, Taiwan, and so far a few from Canada. I guess there are only a small number of Canadians because the domestic student app deadline is end of April. And most of them are either waiting for their acceptance offer or still shopping for a better offer. I haven't seen so many enthusiastic students. It looks like most of them either put their career on hold, take out some loans, travel to another country to do the MBA. The motivation is a lot greater if you decide to do it (and when there's a lot on the line).
  
  
• In other news, Second Cup has decided to change its cup sizes. This is interesting, quoting from an article by Misty Harris, CanWest News Service
  
  In the movie You’ve Got Mail, Tom Hanks memorably describes the modern cafe environment as being designed "for people with no decision-making ability whatsoever to make six decisions just to buy one cup of coffee."

  But now, Second Cup has read the writing on the mochaccino-coloured wall and is changing its cup sizes to include just small, medium and large.