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worldserpent - it's not that you were distracting me, it's that I can't hold up my end of the conversation. ^^; I suspect I've spent far more time and brain cycles on this assignment than it was intended to take up.
Three costume parties over the weekend. Was put in charge of iTunes or equivalent for 2/3 and sort of merrily trainwrecked my way through crossfades, people danced, whatevs. XD; At one point I realized I had The Knife's live DVD in my bag so hooked that up to the TV as what better time than Halloween frankly. So there were half a dozen drunken strangers in a living room, none of whom had heard of the band, boogieing down with ferocious concentration to "Silent Shout".
OTOH now I have so much work to do, it is insanity. :(
(Though, I don't want to give the impression I have unmitigated hatred for Accounting - it's the most interesting out of the three "regular" classes I'm taking. I just wish the course were given over a longer period and involved more sample drills etc and were tested less punishingly in order to compensate for my TOTAL LACK OF COMPETENCE AND KNOWLEDGE IN THIS FIELD. It's not just me, like... half the people in my class have no idea what they're doing? And I have the feeling you could actually graduate with an MBA without ever being more than beginner-competent at it, which, I dunno. It seems like it ought to be a problem. XD;;)
EDIT -- done. My answers make sense to me! It is 7 in the morning and I haven't been to bed yet. orz|||
worldserpent - it's not that you were distracting me, it's that I can't hold up my end of the conversation. ^^; I suspect I've spent far more time and brain cycles on this assignment than it was intended to take up.Three costume parties over the weekend. Was put in charge of iTunes or equivalent for 2/3 and sort of merrily trainwrecked my way through crossfades, people danced, whatevs. XD; At one point I realized I had The Knife's live DVD in my bag so hooked that up to the TV as what better time than Halloween frankly. So there were half a dozen drunken strangers in a living room, none of whom had heard of the band, boogieing down with ferocious concentration to "Silent Shout".
OTOH now I have so much work to do, it is insanity. :(
(Though, I don't want to give the impression I have unmitigated hatred for Accounting - it's the most interesting out of the three "regular" classes I'm taking. I just wish the course were given over a longer period and involved more sample drills etc and were tested less punishingly in order to compensate for my TOTAL LACK OF COMPETENCE AND KNOWLEDGE IN THIS FIELD. It's not just me, like... half the people in my class have no idea what they're doing? And I have the feeling you could actually graduate with an MBA without ever being more than beginner-competent at it, which, I dunno. It seems like it ought to be a problem. XD;;)
EDIT -- done. My answers make sense to me! It is 7 in the morning and I haven't been to bed yet. orz|||
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Date: 2007-10-29 05:44 am (UTC)I'd venture to say this applies to EVERY sort of MBA or PhD out there. XD
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Date: 2007-10-30 01:48 am (UTC)"impostor syndrome"
Date: 2007-10-30 03:20 am (UTC)Unless you're a prick. XDXD
See the axiom about how there are only two types of authors: those who (secretly) hate everything they've ever written, and Tom Wolfe. XDXD
vis: MBAs only required to have basic accounting
Date: 2007-10-29 05:47 am (UTC)(Which reminds me of the rumor that keeps going around--true or not true, I have no way of knowing at the moment, so I'll leave it at "rumor" descriptor--that Jonathan Spence is pants at Chinese. To which, yeah, I dunno... but being as rudimentary stats counts as a foreign language for us history folks.... XD)
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Date: 2007-10-30 01:04 am (UTC)For Spence, I don't know for sure (and I want to!). I wish I remember if the person I first heard it from didn't like the man, because that'd be a clue of sorts....
For stats being a foreign language for history, well. XD Most everyone in the class was taking it for that reason--I was the only one who'd finished their foreign language requirement before enrolling. XDXD (To say: at least two languages.)
Re: vis: MBAs only required to have basic accounting
Date: 2007-10-30 01:57 am (UTC)I will add 'CMA' right under 'JLPT level 1' on my list of "qualifications I will attain asap when they institute the 36-hour day".
If stats is to count as a foreign language it will singlehandedly destroy my illusion that I have any talent for language acquisition. XD;
Re: vis: MBAs only required to have basic accounting
Date: 2007-10-30 03:17 am (UTC)I think stats/math isn't much at all like most foreign languages. Structurally, at least, in the learning of it. (For example, are numbers nouns? Oh, now I'm going to give myself a headache actually making it into a metaphor that works.) It just amuses me that it's considered a foreign language. Which is really to say: Of course you Americans are bad at it! XD
(Incidentally, with a recent test on the application of math and language skills of elementary school students, I'm learning the local variety of "Why Kant Tarou Figure the Area of a Funny Shaped Public Park?" Or what have you, from the news commentary.)
And also, man. The stats we learned was very very watered down--I ended up hunting up the proofs because I needed them to accept the premises of the methods. (And I hated proofs in pre-calc, or I thought I did anyway.) Most of the class was not so hot at it, same as how most of the class, although having passed the language test in Spanish, weren't so good at it. (They really only got to 日本語はお上手ですね〜 level, which as you know, often translates to sarcasm. Only none of the native Spanish-speakers around college apparently had a custom of flattering the attempts of people from Kansas, etc. XD)
Re: vis: MBAs only required to have basic accounting
Date: 2007-10-30 03:21 am (UTC)So as to rule the company from the shadows, of course XDno subject
Date: 2007-10-29 01:14 pm (UTC)b-school is just crazy like that
Date: 2007-10-29 04:32 pm (UTC)well, at least the parties (all in the name of networking) are pretty fun.
Re: b-school is just crazy like that
Date: 2007-10-30 01:46 am (UTC)Hey, you do HBS cases, right? Do you have any... I don't know if "recs" is the right word. XD;; But the ones in my course pack are tremendously interesting reads (in large part because they're really well-written), but I don't know if my profs cherry-picked them, or if I could just go download a bunch randomly and treat them as non-fiction reading.
HBS cases
Date: 2007-10-30 03:24 am (UTC)(I like reading the decisions that my brother sometimes brings home from law school. But then, I think I'm probably a freak.)
Re: b-school is just crazy like that
Date: 2007-10-30 12:44 pm (UTC)I found it weird that you asked me for cases right after affirming the stressfulness of b-school. :D Then I googled, and at least the Wikipedia one is interesting!