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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!
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