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.