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01/11/2008
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This week was the beginning of the spring semester. After enjoying the soundless Bloomington for more than 2 weeks (waking up late, watching TV and more TV, walking around campus, doing nothing, sitting in Starbucks watching people passing by) I guessed I couldn’t ask for more breaks. A loud voice stung inside my ears “Get back to work, fella !!!”. When the last semester ended, most of Chicago celebration was with serious hope that that was the end of all the horribles. It was. Now, I have other “interesting” things to think about and of course to work on. I take only 4 courses for…each half semester. Intro to Financial Statement Analysis, Cost Analysis & Strategy, Asset Valuation, and the Fed System & Practices. Intro to Fin. Statement Analysis will busy me with Pepsi Co., Starbucks & Google cases for deliverables. The 60% points in final exam will also be case analysis. Well, I probably have a premature hypothesis that I will somehow start to like accounting. Accounting is interesting; at least up until now. All I know that accounting is the first thing I need anywhere in my workplace. No accounting then you’ll die just like I did. Like it or not, the courses are important. The compulsory course: Cost Analysis & Strategy appears to be the advanced part of my previous Cost Accounting course during college time 11 years ago. Oooops…. (I’m an old guy; I know that…). The cases we’ll have are short but none of trivia problems. I’m afraid it’ll end up like my Operation class last fall. I should open my eyes and ears wide enough to make sure I wouldn’t miss anything…. Asset Valuation will be a “fun” course. Cynically, I want to consider it as a blessing since it will force me to put extra effort in every step. My positive thought was: if I succeed to pass this alive then it will be possible for me to live with other F-xxx courses. The drawback : I still figure out how I can survive without damaging my brain J. Well, I guess the old quote “be prepared to class” is the most possible solution to me. Another is studying with the group ( I got Bryce, David, Phil and Ben with me; they’re brilliant…). The last but certainly far from being the least is the Fed System and Practices. It’s a very fun class, actually. We’ll have “In the News” (5-10 minutes presentation of recent news about the newest Fed’s policy) every session by each student, group presentation on certain topics (I got Aashim, Ed, and Henry as my teammates), and executive summary.
They’ll be all done in 7 weeks. As patented in my character to always weight the good and down sides, 7 weeks is maybe the best. Before 7 weeks, I'll get too overwhelmed. After 7 weeks, I'll get bored. In 7 weeks, I'll be perfectly ready to ..... say goodbye.
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