Everything I Love: MBA Graduation

In a few hours I'll be graduating, suggesting that they probably lost my paper on the North American auto industry. I decided to pursue this MBA during a miserable day at the bargaining table where I was fighting a trade union over the placement of a comma. I became determined to find a job as an accountant. Next month I start such a job with one of the world's great companies.

It has been a wonderful two years and I'll ask your indulgence of a little narcissism while I record a few of my favourite reflections of my time here.

• Early on, billionaire and Hamilton Ticats owner Bob Young shook our confidence when he recalled that he was denied admission to this business school
• I shook hands with Bill Clinton (and found some Purelle)
• I spent a month in China teaching business strategy at Tsinghua University in Beijing
• My friends and I won a case competition in a blizzard
• By January of first year, I figured out cycle time
  
• TD Bank CEO Ed Clark told us that networking is for chumps
• I spent a summer as a consultant with a great firm and mastered PowerPoint
• I was taught by three great professors
• I've made some lifelong friends
• My friends and I helped an international NGO with how not to raise money
• Of all our field trips, the freezer factory visit was the best

Tonight I get to go home for good. Let the fishing begin.