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Friday, September 29, 2006
. Time Management]
I have never been so busy in my life. There are so many club activities, social activities and academic activities going on, I can't keep it all straight. Finding time to update my blog has become difficult. This past week, my section had their first midterm. I had two, as I am in the Finance class. So we studied like crazy all weekend long (after the bus of course), to be ready for our Tuesday Finance Exam ... which I feel really "iffy" about, and then spent the rest of the week studying for our Econ exam that took place this morning. Rather, I blew off studying until last night, then wished I hadn't. I can't say I think I did all that badly, but I am happy it's over. And I'm happy I didn't dedicate more time to it than I did.
On a career outlook front, I'm planning on heading out to the Marketing Club's visit to Minneapolis next week, which should be fun and interesting. I went to the Piper Jaffray Presentation this week, which was great! I wasn't seriously looking at them, but it looks like they are a great middle market firm with major offices in Minneapolis and California. Plus so many of the consumer / retail deals I'm interested in happen in the middle market, so I think this is a good option for me.
We have a stats quiz this weekend, another finance assignment, and some econ and strat assignments to work on next week.
MBA Cutie @ 2:03 PM
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Wednesday, September 20, 2006
. WE'RE # 1!!!!!!!]
That's right! Ross did it! We are rated at the top of the WSJ's list of MBA Programs. Congratulations, Dean Dolan! And of course, congratulations to all the students and staff, and to all the recruiters who helped make this happen.
MBA Cutie @ 5:18 PM
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Tuesday, September 12, 2006
. The Start of Fall A]
A whole week has passed! And I'm still alive and well. Classes have been interesting, here is a quick low down:
Business Statistics (OMS 502) -- I sort of wish I had bitten the bullet and studied for the waiver exam. Not that the class is bad, because our professor is actually very good and has done a good job of explaining stats to people that have never taken stats before. However, I have taken stats before. I've even taken Econometrics before. I really am bored out of my mind. I could have taught myself all this stuff on my own. The only drastic change I'm noticing in Stats is that now we're doing statistical modeling in Excel as opposed to using Stata that we used at UCLA, about 5 or 6 years ago...
Business Economics (BE 502) -- Speaking of classes I wish I passed out of... Well I majored in the stuff at UCLA, but I just never really "got" it, so I thought it would be good to take this class. Our professor is actually very good, but the thing about economics is that it's immensely hard to teach. It's just really one of those things that has to "dawn" on you one day... and when it does, you "get" it.
Finance (FIN 513) -- Our teacher for this class (Kaul) is AMAZING. I dont' know how much finance I'm learning in class, but I'm learning a whole lot of it by doing homework. The class is non-stop laughs. I can't wait for Monday and Wednesday mornings just so that I can go to this class.
Strategy (STRAT 502) -- I've never taken a Strategy course before, so I guess this is my first real exposure to case analysis. We've been working pretty hard already, analyzing cases in our assigned groups, and in heated class discussions. The professor (Kale) is excellent at guiding the class to have the discussions he wants us to have. I'm always surprised when he puts up the notes at the end of class that he had pre-prepared. They are usually pretty close to what the direction of our class discussion was.
We had MBA Games last Friday! The day was extremely tiring... we participated in many different sports, including softball, volleyball, ultimate frisbee, bocce ball, etc... Section 4 ended up placing first in Volleyball and Softball and second in a bunch of others. We came in tied for third place with Section 5. There were tons of sponsors on site at the field, including J&J, Eli Lilly, Target, and Pepsi-Co. The one complaint I have is that there wasn't enough regular water on site. There is only so much Gatorade and Propel that you can drink!
MBA Cutie @ 5:42 AM
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Wednesday, September 06, 2006
. RLP Days 4, 5, and 6]
We got to have a late start on Tuesday (we, meaning section 4)... with two seminars in the afternoon. One on Ethics and then one on Citizenship. The Citizenship one was interesting, the Professor that spoke to us was Jim Walsh. He also showed us a partially finished documentary regarding the outsourcing phenomena we are currently facing in the U.S. I had mixed feelings about that documentary, but, for the sake of time and I guess, because I just didn't care enough to say more, I chose to not comment too much.
The next day we had a presentation on the state of the world in 2020, and then this awesome corporate diversity presentation. The presentation included many short skits and lots of group interaction. The afternoon was our teambuilding exercises. I had a great team, and it was a good time. By the end of the activities, we were ready to go home and relax.
For our last day of RLP, all the sections split up and headed out to various locations across Michigan for community service projects. Section 4 was assigned to Project HOPE, which is the main sponsor for the community service day at Ross. I spent the day cleaning up an old lot, with some section mates, so that the organization can use it productively in the future. It was a great opportunity to take some time out of our busy lives to think about the less fortunate and give back to the community. I definitely hope this is something that our section will continue to do going foreward.
MBA Cutie @ 6:20 PM
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