I have a fixed income midterm coming up. This is the first time since I started graduate school that I feel I could be in trouble for a test. This weekend will be a study-marathon! Tomorrow we’re going to spend all day in Panera, milking the free internet, atmosphere, and free coffee refills!
School has been going well for us both. I am finding the MBA program at Temple informative and valuable, although I am growing weary of group work. I am simply not used to relying on others to complete assignments, but this experience will be valuable in my career as teamwork becomes more prevalent at work. As a manager, I imagine teamwork and coordination are the most important things.
The group work itself is not difficult, it’s just the personalities, ability, and work ethic of my cohorts that sometimes bothers me. Some of my cohorts seem preoccupied with non-school activities, which is understandable, but frustrating in the context that everyone leads a busy life, and everyone has other things to do, including me. I’ve only met a few really competent people, using myself as the rubric, and I don’t want to sound conceited, but I have found the majority of my peers lacking. Whether plodding, uncommitted, distracted, myopic, selfish, average, or technologically out of touch, these students are disappointing.
Next term, Lisa and I are taking two classes together. I am confident that she will be the ideal group member, both intelligent, capable, and responsible–otherwise there will be trouble in paradise.
MBA classes have continued with a steady pace. I have been trying to find time to keep up with the textbook and while I have set a good pace with statistics, I am behind in economics. The teacher is somewhat dry and likes to amuse himself with little stories. I don’t mean to sound critical–I’m not. I appreciate that everyone has a different teaching style.
The extra work has meant that I have not been reading lately. Instead, to unwind, I’ve been playing Double Dragon II. I’m very close to being able to beat it with only three extra lives.
I have been contemplating life and its course recently. I feel like doing something totally new, something totally unexpected. Maybe I’ll whisk Lisa away to some foreign land, and we’ll start our lives all over. Can I fight the future and buck the trend with the recklessness of youth?
It’s back to school time for kids again, back to lectures, books, and teachers dirty looks. I must be a kid again, because I’m going back to school too! This is the second week of the fall term, and two weeks into my graduate degree. I’m taking a Statistics class and an Economics class this term–both required. The great thing about required courses is that both tails of the distribution (ahh I’m using Stat) have to take them. It’s nice to be an outlier.