School and such
I started school just about two weeks ago and it seems to be going fine so far. Here’s what my classes look like this semester:
International Finance
MWF, 9:10-10:10
My prof looks like Will Ferrel. I swear. He has the hair and the facial features. This seems like a very interesting class, but is supposed to get more challenging. That means I should be ordering the textbook soon.
Social and Legal Environment of Business
MWF, 10:20-11:20
A core business course dealing with learning about law, business cases and such. The new book at the bookstore cost a whopping $215, but I managed to get it online for all of $86 after shipping and it came in a few days. How’s that for savings?
Investments
MWF, 11:30-12:30
Thought this class was going to be really interesting. It turned out to be a little less than what I was hoping, but not as bad as others have suggested… so far.
Stat II
MW, 1:10-2:40
In reality, he has been letting us out around 2:00 each day, so it’s more like a half hour class than an hour and a half class… and with luck because he is a nice man, but his accent is very thick and hard to understand.
Latin American Film and Fiction
MW, 2:40
Even though I wanted to improve my Spanish reading abilities, I’m seriously less than thrilled and hating this class right now. We’ve progressed on to full-sized novels in this class and she picked some hefty ones: Cien anos de soledad, Como agua para chocolate, and La casa de los espiritus. The first and the last novels I mentioned are about 400+ pages, all in Spanish, and the second one I mentioned is shorter. The paragraphs are often long and continue for pages and pages, though, so needless to say it is hard to get through. I wish I was back in the class I had last semester with the same teacher when we were only reading short stories!
J&J Case Competition
I am adding this on, even though it is technically an extracurricular thing that I am doing and not a class. The team from our school that placed 3rd in the grand competition last year suggested that it would take a considerable amount of time per week to work on and develop our case. Personally, I don’t get my classwork and other work done during the week (especially considering the amount of Spanish homework I have for this weekend… don’t get me started on that!! *rage*) so I doubt I’m going to have a million hours to devote to this. I am still going to give it a try and meet with my team when possible, though, and our case has to be ready to present on March 1st. Unfortunately, this is falling right after a big weekend (the Greek fraternity/sorority rush weekend), on a day that I have five classes, and the day before the Flogging Molly show in NYC that I might be going to, so there are some very busy days coming up for me.
Tomorrow I am going to dinner at Emeril’s Chop House in the Sands Casino with Steve and a few other people. It’s restaurant week in the nearby town of Bethlehem and Emeril’s restaurant is participating by offering a 3 course dinner menu for $30. There are other restaurants offering similar menus, but I thought it would be cool to go to Emeril’s. When I was a kid, I was a big fan of his. A friend of my dad’s brought me be back a menu and a toque hat from the Emeril’s New Orleans restaurant, and I still have them on my bookshelf along with cookbooks and such.
Saturday there is something fun planned, too, but I am not able to say what because it is a secret for someone- lol.
