SMH

Why oh why did my summer financial aid clear within 6 weeks of my FAFSA submission but the fall is still "outstanding" after 2 months? And what's with that word "outstanding" anyway? How can something that should be done yet is still not done be "outstanding". More like "woefullylate" or "notjustyet" or even "wehavenoidea". Yeah, I like that word. More people should use that word "wehavenoidea" rather than sharing information that is so incorrect as to be potentially damaging to the lives and careers of ofthers. Yup, "wehavenoidea" is the word of the day. Time to get to work

Breather

Well I pushed through the Mgr. Economics midterm and Contemporary Business Analysis final. Those were indeed comprehensive but they're behind me now and no one could be any happier.
Econ homeowrk due tonight, maybe I should start reading now.

Le' Crunch

One managerial economics midterm,

One contemporary business analysis final,

One business simulation final assessment.

No sweat.

If you see me looking like this, I don't have a headache. I'm just learning the difference in short run and long run when it comes to changes in the market eqillibrium price. All part of economic analysis and the first thing you learn when you really get into supply and demand. Homework due tonight.

Birthday!

My baby Nina turned 1 and had her first Chuck E experience. Went fairly well considering she was half asleep
the whole time. Party's over, back to studying.

Here we go

OK and now we have gotten really seious really fast. First lecture in managerial economics and my prof. has whipped out some elementary calculus on me. DO YOU KNOW HOW LONG IT'S BEEN SINCE I'VE HAD CALCULUS?! AAAhhh!!! Sure, conceptually it's a simple maximization problem looking at the rate of change in total costs and total revenue but wow what a way to start you know. For those just joining me, I'm a non-traditional student going back to school to get my MBA at my local State U via a distance learning format. So far doing well but I'm REALLY having to earn it at this point. This blog is just tracking the ups and downs along the way.

Summer 09 Blog 1

OK, so I'm a 36 y.o. guy, wife and 3 kids, mortgage, 2 cars, and a DEMANDING job. So what in the world would possess me to pursue an MBA? Strange as it may sound, all the stats I just mentioned are the very reasons I'm going for this. Turns out Ole Miss (University of Mississippi) has a pretty decent MBA program that's well-respected in the Southeast and has a distance learning component that works out well for me. So fast forward to now. I started this summer after taking 2 prerequisites I needed during the Spring. First class was PMBA 601 Organizational Communication and that let me know just how intense this was going to be. First class - 3 textbooks, 20+ academic articles, 2 major papers, powerpoint presentation w/audio all in about 7 weeks. That's intense. I'm midway through 623 - Contemporary Business Analysis and this week just started 614 - Environment of Business. (Managerial Economics) I'll talk more about 614 tomorrow - it's a cool class.