Joshua van Aalst’s blog

May 7th, 2008

The best week of my life!

Posted by Joshua van Aalst in MBA, MIT

Ok, I’ve had many wonderful weeks. The week I met Donna. The week I put on A Night Of Trance 1st Birthday. The week I met Mozart. The week I got into IBM e.t.c. e.t.c. but the last 7 days truly have been amazing!

Firstly, I have been officially accepted into the MIT MBA program at MIT’s Sloan school of management. For the Australian readers… American management schools tend to have names that are different to the universities they are apart of Stern is the business school for New York University for instance. Anyway, today i received my offical written offer. It was cutely packaged in a big envelope that on the outside said in big letters: YOUR IN!

Secondly, I received a wonderful bonus from my employer, Macquarie, for the year just gone. Macquarie year end is in April/May. I worked very hard for Macquarie but was concerned that since shifting from a contractor to an employee I would miss out financially. My manager was true to his word and then some. Incredibly generous. What a wonderful place to work. I am truly privileged and I thank him enormously.

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