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Finals

Reading days are here. Last night at 1:00 AM I turned my tax final. I am not quite sure if the answer that put is completely correct. I spent way too much time on it, though. Last night when I thought I was done, I stumbled across a situation that completely changed my conclusion. So, instead of just going to bed, I spent the time filling in holes.

I am glad that I went back to fill in the holes, but today I can certainly feel the effects of staying up too late. 1:00 AM is not that late, but the doctor on Wednesday told me to get extra sleep to knock out this cold/sinus infection. I don't think that I was listening too carefully or maybe I was completely enveloped in the IRC last night. Being wrapped up in the IRC makes me sound more of tax nerd...such is life.

At any rate, I only have four more finals to tackle. I spend some time today studying for Finance. I actually care about that class, but now I should study for my least favorite class. You guessed it, its my Organizational Behavior class. Pretty worthless class, but I do have fun playing chess or Chinese checkers instead of paying attention to Petey. I am getting better at Chinese checkers, but I still get killed by Andrew every time. Too bad OB classes are all over; with more classes, I am sure that I could have taken Andrew down. Chess, on the other hand, is a completely different topic. I think I need a strategy--there are not enough useless OB classes to make me proficient in chess.

On to studying...

Last Week of School

This is finally the last week of this semester! It seems like this semester has flown by, but some days it feels like the complete opposite; like during some of my boring business classes. Don't get me wrong, business classes are extremely important, but sometimes I wonder how the professor could about to talk about a subject for 80 minutes.

So, I am taking four MBA classes and one Accounting class this semester and I am still alive. I think that it mainly has to do with my MBA group. They are a stellar group: three professional stem (ahem...I mean two professional and one Ph.D. prep'er) guys, one information system guru, and me. We had a lot of group projects in all of our various classes that required a lot of chatting on Skype and G-chat late into the evenings, on any day of the week.

Luckily, all of those projects are coming to a close tomorrow with our final project in Organizational Behavior. That paper/presentation has been a daunting task that we have had to work on for the entire semester. Needless to say, I only really knew about the project about one month ago. Whoops! Actually, the whole class was surprised when Dr. Madsen (Petey) announced to the class that our projects were going to be due on the last day of class. No one really knew exactly what he was talking about, but like good business school students, we pulled the project together within the past two weeks. Hooray for efficiency!

Now, just to set the record straight--I am in MBA classes but I am NOT a MBA student. MBA students are a very different breed. Although both programs share the love of extreme (and often useless competition), the MBA kids (as we so affectionately call them) are old and snobby. Our MBA classes use the same rooms that the MBA kids have their classes in, but they wait until five minutes before our class begins to pack up their bags. I have probably spent a day's worth of time waiting for the MBA kids to leave the class room. They love to chat (well, actually they love to network).

I'd better get back to my homework...