Marylhurst University Registration Day

Now, it’s serious. I’ve registered for my first two classes in the MBA in Sustainable Business and I’ve scheduled an advisory meeting for tomorrow. I don’t really feel like a lemming but I do feel like I’ve taken a leap.  I’m registered for:

• Principles of Sustainability
• Strategic Leadership in Sustainable Management

and I start on September 27th. I feel like I should go out and buy new notebooks and pens and quite possibly a quart of ice cream.

But I also know statistics is out there…at some point…in the future…it’s there. Despite that looming cloud of destruction, I’m getting really excited about the readings, learning from my fellow students and just being included in discussions about ideas and new ways of doing business. I have no idea what to expect and that’s primarily because I know very few people in these types of programs. However, I am really hoping that as I progress through the program, I can begin applying some of these business principles to projects on which I am working. Maybe I am expecting too much, I am just optimistic that the exercise of learning and sharing ideas will energize my way of thinking and working. Or perhaps, I’ll just be exhausted. Hard to say until I get in there.

I just checked out a sample syllabus, which makes my decision feel much more real, immediate and life-changing (if only for the 18 months I’m enrolled) – I mean I’m going to have to do that work in the outline.

In the meantime, I’ve been reading a couple of life-changing books about cycling and cycling culture, which I’ll write about soon.