2011 Full-Time MBA Blog

The list of teams for the Ropes Course day (Tuesday, August 30), has been posted on Vista site: Sauder Masters Workshops – 2011 Full Time MBA

Under: Home Page › Preparation & General Program Information › Structure of the MBA › Orientation & Registration

There are two documents, one with the teams and their member names and another that is alphabetical by last name so you can easily look up which team you are on.

On Tuesday, you will be splitting into your teams and going to two different locations around 10:00 am:
Teams 1-12 will be led to the High Ropes course by a facilitator
Teams 13-24 will be led to the Low Ropes course by a facilitator

We ask that you get into your teams quickly in HA 098 and listen for instructions.

NOTE: these teams are for the Tuesday Ropes Course.  You will be put in different teams on Monday for another activity.

A  detailed orientation schedule has been posted on your Vista site: Sauder Masters Workshops – 2011 Full Time MBA and can be found under: Home Page › Preparation & General Program Information › Structure of the MBA › Orientation & Registration.

Note: every student needs to fill out both a waiver form and a medical form for Tuesday, August 30, 2011 and bring them to orientation that day.  These forms are posted on Vista on the same page as noted above.

For students taking the Economics Pre-Core, please note that this course will be held in the Sauder School of Business, room HA492 (same room that the Quantitative Methods Pre-Core was held).

This message is for incoming MBA & MM-ECM students who previously attended UBC and already have a UBCcard.  The UBC Carding Office & UBC Security have just advised us that you no longer need to e-mail our office to obtain your new i-Class card.  There are two options to getting your updated card:

1.  Students can take their existing, non i-Class card and visit the UBC Parking & Keydesk located at:
   204-2075 Wesbrook Mall in the General Services & Administration Building http://www.maps.ubc.ca/PROD/index_detail.php?show=y,n,n,n,n,y&bldg2Search=n&locat1=018 .  They will then swap them over to the new i-Class card for you.

   OR

2. You can go to the UBC Bookstore carding office http://www.maps.ubc.ca/PROD/index_detail.php?show=y,n,n,n,n,y&bldg2Search=n&locat1=081 with your non i-Class card, but you must remember to identify yourself as a Sauder student. They will only swap to an i-Class card if they know it’s a program where i-Class is required.

Once you have followed one of the two options above and picked up your i-Class card, please take it to HA391 for activation.

NOTE: if you have already e-mailed us, please follow one of the two options above unless otherwise contacted by our office.

 For those students who have not attended UBC before, you simply need to go to the UBC Bookstore http://www.maps.ubc.ca/PROD/index_detail.php?show=y,n,n,n,n,y&bldg2Search=n&locat1=081  to obtain the i-Class card.

All students must know their student number and have at least one picture ID. 

Hopefully this will make things run a bit smoother for the transition to i-Class!

The MBA Society Invites you to a Welcome BBQ and Boat Cruise – September 1st, 2011.  See link below to purchase tickets.

Boat Cruise Invite

UBC students are lifelong members of the University community who maintain ties with UBC in part through access to an email address that identifies them with the University, before and after graduation. As part of leading several initiatives to renew its technology infrastructure, UBC is retiring Netinfo/Interchange, which provides students with a free email account. In undertaking this initiative, UBC recognizes that students remain interested in maintaining a UBC-based email address.

More information about the project is available here.

The start of the MBA program is fast approaching and for those of you taking the Pre-Core classes it’s just around the corner!!  We hope you are all making your way to Vancouver and getting settled in before things get busy.  

 If you have not signed up for Pre-Core classes but would like to, it is still not too late!  Log into Vista and register Home Page › Preparation & General Program Information › Program Preparation (ISP and Pre-Core) › ISP and Pre-Core Registration

 Below please find a reminder about dates, times and locations for all Pre-Core classes.

 NOTE: We would like all Pre-Core students to arrive at least 20 minutes early to check in and pick up their name tent and name tag. 

1. Quantitative Methods
   Dates:              August 10, 11, 12 & 15, 2011
   Start time:        8:30 am sharp (please come 20 min. early to check in)
   Location:         Sauder School of Business (Henry Angus Building), Room 492
   http://www.maps.ubc.ca/PROD/index_detail.php?show=y,n,n,n,n,y&bldg2Search=n&locat1=023
    
2. Financial Accounting
   Dates:              August 16, 17, 18 & 19, 2011
   Start time:        8:30 am sharp (please come 20 min. early to check in)
   Location:         Sauder School of Business (Henry Angus Building), Room 492
   http://www.maps.ubc.ca/PROD/index_detail.php?show=y,n,n,n,n,y&bldg2Search=n&locat1=023
    
3. Economics
   Dates:              August 22, 23 & 24, 2011
   Start time:        8:30 am sharp (please come 20 min. early to check in)
   Location:         Sauder School of Business (Henry Angus Building), Room 492
   http://www.maps.ubc.ca/PROD/index_detail.php?show=y,n,n,n,n,y&bldg2Search=n&locat1=023
    
4. Case Preparation
   Dates:              August 25 & 26, 2011
   Start time:        8:30 am sharp (please come 20 min. early to check in)
   Location:         Sauder School of Business (Henry Angus Building), Room 492
   http://www.maps.ubc.ca/PROD/index_detail.php?show=y,n,n,n,n,y&bldg2Search=n&locat1=023