It occurred to me the other day that I have not done a detailed description of a day for you guys, so here we go. This is the story of a relatively average Tuesday, yesterday...
0720 Alarm, snooze
0724 Alarm, snooze
0728 Alarm, up, start coffee, check email with one eye open
0738 Shower, Shave, Dress
0755 Coffee, Cereal
0805 Finish checking email, review day schedule, pack bag
0815 Out the door
0820 Pickup Wall Street Journal, walk to bus stop
0825 Hop on 21 Bus
0835 Arrive Hunstman Hall
0840 Buy more coffee
0845 Read paper, chat with early risers outside class, drink coffee
0900-1030 Competitive Strategy Class
1030 Check email
1030-1150 Decision Models and Uncertainty Class
1150-1205 Run to food truck and grab lunch
1205-1250 Learning Team Meeting, assignment for project portion due at midnight
1250-1320 Check email, work on homework
1330-1450 Finance Class with Professor Allen
1500-1630 Negotiations Class, I am part of management team for 3rd stage of multi-round labor/management negotiation, 90 minutes of negotiation with classmates
1630-1650 Stand in line at Reprographics, buy bulkpacks, check email
1650-1730 Work on Accounting HW, get help from Finance buddy, look at Halloween pictures on Facebook
1730-1820 Dinner at Saladworks, while reading Strategy case for team assignment due at midnight
1830-2100 Whartones Acapella singing rehearsal
2100-2120 Walk to bar, couple of beers with guys in singing group
2145 Get home, unpack bag, sort paperwork from day
2200 Check email
2210-2300 Finish Accounting HW
2300-0030 Write portion of case analysis for Learning Team Project, email to project leader
0030-0045 Check and process email, update schedule for next day
0050 Lights out
Just a normal weekday here in business school...
Hope all is well in your life.
Cheers
Alex
October 31, 2007
October 15, 2007
All along the watchtower...
Hey all,
I am getting out of my slump of late by throwing myself into school work :)
I continue to love Finance, and today I finally understood the greatest concept ever invented: arbitrage
It is amazing and whoever invented arbitrage should get a Nobel Prize. It is like you start with nothing, you make money, and by trying to make money you are actually working as a force to correct the market and price everything at the right level. No wonder investment bankers are rich: if you have the skill and instinct to be good at arbitrage in the real world - you deserve every penny you get.
This week also begins Q1 exams, with Marketing first, on Friday. People are already getting overwrought about that one. Go figure.
Something that you may not know about me, I define the periods of my life with music. Each major step or phase has a song that is the 'theme' or reminds me of the things I did or the people I met.
This summer in Russia, the theme song was 'Teenagers' by My Chemical Romance.
I have found the song for Wharton First Year Q1. 'All Along the Watchtower' was originally written by Bob Dylan, but definitively covered by Jimi Hendrix on 'The Jimi Hendrix Experience'. The the more you think about the lyrics, the more deep layers of meaning you reveal, but I urge you all to listen to the song and find out for yourself:
I am getting out of my slump of late by throwing myself into school work :)
I continue to love Finance, and today I finally understood the greatest concept ever invented: arbitrage
It is amazing and whoever invented arbitrage should get a Nobel Prize. It is like you start with nothing, you make money, and by trying to make money you are actually working as a force to correct the market and price everything at the right level. No wonder investment bankers are rich: if you have the skill and instinct to be good at arbitrage in the real world - you deserve every penny you get.
This week also begins Q1 exams, with Marketing first, on Friday. People are already getting overwrought about that one. Go figure.
Something that you may not know about me, I define the periods of my life with music. Each major step or phase has a song that is the 'theme' or reminds me of the things I did or the people I met.
This summer in Russia, the theme song was 'Teenagers' by My Chemical Romance.
I have found the song for Wharton First Year Q1. 'All Along the Watchtower' was originally written by Bob Dylan, but definitively covered by Jimi Hendrix on 'The Jimi Hendrix Experience'. The the more you think about the lyrics, the more deep layers of meaning you reveal, but I urge you all to listen to the song and find out for yourself:
"There must be some kind of way out of here," said the joker to the thief,
"There's too much confusion, I can't get no relief.
Businessmen, they drink my wine, plowmen dig my earth,
None of them along the line know what any of it is worth."
"No reason to get excited," the thief, he kindly spoke,
"There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke.
But you and I, we've been through that, and this is not our fate,
So let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late."
All along the watchtower, princes kept the view
While all the women came and went, barefoot servants, too.
Outside in the distance a wildcat did growl,
Two riders were approaching, the wind began to howl.
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