OwenBloggers: Isaac - MBA '08

Finally! A peaceful weekend.

 Finally got some quiet time this weekend.  First week of MOD II was last week, and although we had 2 projects due today, I still managed to stay ahead and get some free time this weekend.  It's amazing how much your perspective changes when you enter B-school.  My last job was high stress and high workload, but I still had some free time at night and on the weekends.  B-school takes all that away--- you're left with maybe one day of the weekend that you can have to yourself.  Many times, you're working 7 days a week.

I got lucky this week and didn't have any work Saturday.  It was homecoming weekend, but I really don't care about that kind of stuff, so Kim and I got to spend all day together. We went to see The Departed, good flick, but really violent towards the end.  Kinda ruined it for me.  Not to mention movie prices are up to $9.50 per person; when did that happen?

This week is not too bad, the finance knurds are off to Wall Street Week, some conferences are coming up this weekend, so it's really nice and quiet around here.  I hope to get caught up in Operations and Accounting II.  A friend just reminded me the midterm in Accounting II is in 2 weeks; yeah, we've had class 3 times and we're already getting ready for the midterm.  There's a special place in hell for the person that came up with the MOD system. 

Taking a day off this weekend, going to the movies, or just spending time with your friends are so vital in B-school it's not even funny.  You could burn out quickly if you don't take some time to recharge and de-stress.  Go to a concert, go camping, get out of the library (which, coincidentally, is where I'm writing this...). 

Ferris Bueller said it best: "Life moves pretty fast.  If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it...". 

 

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Back to school...

Business school is a lot like the plot of the movie Billy Madison.  You're in a set of classes for what seems like 2 weeks, covering all the material you thought you would learn in about a year, you take a round of tests, and you move to new, more challenging classes.  Billy moves through his classes so quickly, he covers grade school to high school in like 6 months. 

It was humorous in the film to watch Billy go from eating glue in kindergarten to learning 11th grade algebra in such a short amount of time, but to be honest, B-school moves a whole lot faster.  The only difference is Adam Sandler's character had a heck of a lot more fun than I'm having. 

Just last week I finished classes for Accounting I, Stats, and Econ.  I had from Thursday to Sunday off (although I had to work on a mock business plan...), and now I'm sitting in a whole new round of courses that build on what I learned in the first MOD.

Now I'm in Accounting II, Finance, Operations, and Marketing.  It's scary to think that in 3 weeks I've got midterms in some of these courses.  Really scary.

But you know what, you cant be scared... you gotta get out there, learn what you can, work hard, and find that ****-ing dog!

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