Hell Week Cometh

You're probably wondering why there haven't been any posts. I'll tell you why, because we just had the most poorly scheduled week in the history of poorly scheduled weeks (*NB sack of rome by Vandals not included on this list) as we had so many deliverables due my head spun around like the Exorcist. Here's the schedule we just dealt with:

Monday: 2 quizzes during the day on two marketing cases
Monday: Finance Strategy project due Monday at 11:59pm
Monday: Take-home quiz due next morning at 9am
Tuesday: Study for Marketing final
Wednesday: Marketing final, 1PM
Thursday: Finance midterm due 11:59pm.

I have basically been living in the Bridge Cafe, such that the waitresses all know us and like us and give us special treatment. They ought to, as we've spent enough money in there to keep them living fat and happy for about a month.

The Finance project was a bit of a disaster because I was in a group with three other people. Jessica and I took the first two questions and the other two guys took the last two questions. We laid the groundwork on Sunday, had it sent off to Jessica's boyfriend to read up on (he's an investment banker, so he knows more about options than we do) and then finalized our strategy and were done by 8pm for a final edit with Matt (boyfriend). Our two partners futzed around, didn't understand the material, and took their sweet time getting it to us. They sent it to us around 11:30pm, which gave us only 1/2 an hour to edit and compile. We made them write another analysis paragraph, because their question 4 was shoddily done and we sent it in 2 minutes late at 12:01am because my computer hit a lag because it had been running all day and my virtual machine is very slow when accessing outside its hardware partition (I included that explanation with our submission; hopefully the professor is similarly befuzzled). One group member actually spent a lot of time working on it, just didn't get the material, the other definitely dropped the ball and has gotten the riot act read to his face by Jessica and I.

The Marketing final went well; I expect to do well in the class. We did have a math problem where we had to calculate a break even and I'm 99.99 sure I did it right since everyone checked answers when the test was done and the one I got came up the most.

Marketing quizzes were handed back and I have an A- average, which was impressive considering the aggregate average across the class was a B.

Finance has not posted any grades yet, so we'll see. The next round of classes starts this morning, and it's a different professor from last time. Luckily, this prof taught Fin II last module and he really likes me, so I'm looking forward to more time kissing butt.