| Picking classes at the GSB. And other griping. |
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| Sunday, 17 August 2008 04:05 | |
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So my big frustration with the GSB is the difficulty in crafting a meaningful course load, especially as someone who skipped the basic accounting, finance and econ courses. We have switched to a new bidding system which is largely an improvement but prohibits full-time students from bidding on classes at Gleacher for the first two bidding rounds which is very frustrating if a class you want/need is only being offered at Gleacher that quarter. Frankly, I think the school just needs to offer more classes. I try to avoid taking classes at Gleacher anyway. This is the fourth quarter that I have been bid out of Operations. Operations for god"s sake. I"m not about to pay 5,000 points for this class. But I need it to graduate (as I am not going to take macro) and am interested in the course. But when I have to pay 5,000-8,000 points for classes key to my concentration, I can"t afford to spend that much on Operations. Why don"t they just offer more slots? Sheesh. And Financial Instruments, which is a strict prereq for Veronesi"s Risk Management course in the winter (and he refuses to waive for me) is only being offered at Gleacher this quarter. Grrr. And Managing Decision Making (which I really want, and fulfills a graduation requirement) has only two campus slots. One of which conflicts with the uber popular Financial Statement Analysis with Abbie Smith (which I did get). So since I didn"t bid enough for the other section, I"m out of luck there. In sum, after two rounds of bidding, all I have to show for myself is two accounting classes. Two Accounting Classes. I hate accounting. Bah. In other news, it was a strange, hard week on the internship front which led to two things: 1) made me seriously question my choice of career. The boring, meaningless of the job was impossible to ignore and the feeling persisted all week. 2) made me realize how much I want to go home (Pacific Northwest). I am tired of the Midwest. Y and I wish we were moving back home this fall. Trouble is there is virtually no good money management opportunities out there. Which brings me back to point #1. Apparently, I still don"t know what I want to do when I grow up. Each time I come to this point (which is quite frequently, actually) I just re-convince myself that I"ve invested too much into my current path and should just keep going. So it is. |