There is this point in time: right before the program commences and just after you have been issued your visa, or made your housing deposit, or whatever the last item on your to-do list of pre-INSEAD preparation may be. It is like the scene at the beginning of Saving Private Ryan – troops lined up on the landing ships, the air tense with anticipation for what will surely be a fierce battle; odds are the man next to you will never make it home. I exaggerate of course, but the point remains that there might be this lull in the frenetic energy that has surrounded you up to that point.