Sunday, July 25: Registration; Day 1

We checked into our Grad Student Apartments between 2-4 today.  These are apartments not dorm rooms.  A lot more room the the dorm room I had at Cal Poly.  My roommate is Cecile Humphrey who is from the Cabinet in Barbados.  She is very nice and I feel very lucky. 

Roger Porter kicked off our Orientation Session.  He encouraged us to capture 3 ideas from each session.  I will try and share these key ideas in the blog over the 3 week session.  The session is 68 people--45 from the US and 13 outside the US.  My 3 take aways from his session were:

• Just like at work--all of you have a work ethic.  At your time at Harvard, have a learning ethic!
• As we do case studies,  look for what was positive in the experience and what was negative.
• Roger worked in the Reagan White House.  His observation of Reagan.  He was the most comfortable man "in his own skin" of anyone he has every met!

A typical day at "school" will be:

• 7 am Breakfast
• 8 am Study Group
• 9 am Lesson 1
• 11 am Lesson 2
• 12:30 pm Lunch
• 2:00 Lesson 3
• 3:30 Reading Time
• 6:00 Dinner
• 7:30 "Free Time"  -- AKA finish up your reading time!