{"id":50,"date":"2015-12-01T08:01:54","date_gmt":"2015-12-01T08:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs2.abo.fi\/technologytransfer\/?p=50"},"modified":"2016-04-28T10:37:24","modified_gmt":"2016-04-28T10:37:24","slug":"the-bes-course-like-all-good-things-must-come-to-an-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs2.abo.fi\/technologytransfer\/2015\/12\/01\/the-bes-course-like-all-good-things-must-come-to-an-end\/","title":{"rendered":"The BES course, like all good things, must come to an end"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s already been almost two months since we landed in Finland after our time in Chicago. The Kellogg-project is slowly but surely coming to an end for our part \u2013 since the beginning of October, we\u2019ve been working hard at the Technology Transfer Office of \u00c5bo Akademi. Our contract ends on December 31st<\/sup>, so there\u2019s still about\u00a0a month time to get stuff done.<\/p>\n

A big part of our time so far has been committed to the planning and execution of the Business Essentials for Scientists, i.e. the BES-course. I think we have succeeded well in making the course interesting for the students; everyone really seems enthusiastic while taking part in the lectures.<\/p>\n

I have been inspired by the lectures and the course participants as well, and genuinely feel like we\u2019ve managed to create a great atmosphere for experiencing and learning new things. The content of a course is always important, but almost equally important, in my opinion at least, is to get people excited about their future prospects. There\u2019s been a sort of \u201canything is possible\u201d ethos, which has stuck to many of the students. I\u2019ve heard some pretty interesting start-up ideas people have started thinking more seriously about. What the folks in Silicon Valley have realized long ago is that in order to do great things, we must dream big.<\/p>\n

The last course day was a few days ago, on Tuesday 24th<\/sup> of November. I\u2019m sad to see the course come to an end, but really happy I got the opportunity to be a part of organizing it. Mostly though, I\u2019m happy to have met all of the participants and lecturers.<\/p>\n

Now, after the course has ended, it\u2019s time to fully concentrate on other things. And boy, are there things to concentrate on. As stated earlier, there\u2019s still plenty to do at \u00c5A before the end of the year.<\/p>\n

I am afraid I will be swamped with too many things next year, which will result in inefficiencies in all of them. I feel like it\u2019s important to be able to say no to something that might seem really intriguing in order to be able to follow through on the things one has already committed oneself to.<\/p>\n

Whatever happens, it\u2019s going to be one heck of a spring.<\/p>\n

-Lauri<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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