Ugh. I've been reading for the majority of the last 8 hours. Well. Okay, figure the time I took to take a bike ride, make and eat dinner, watch an episode of Burn Notice and some intermittent web-surfing, more like 6 of the last 8 hours. Still, that's a lot.
We have 3 classes this session, over 8 classes per week: 2 meet 3 times, 1 meets twice, 3 credit & 2 credit, respectively. Of course it's the 2 credit class that has all the reading. The other two are math (accounting for managers and statistics). Okay, technically the accounting class is how to interpret the statements, not how to generate them, but still it's mainly reminders at this point, not new info. Reminders of 3-years-old info. Which is definitely needed.
But here's the thing: I'm prepping for tomorrow, which will consist of 2 90 minute classes. At this point, I'm spending more time than I did for any of my Saturday 3-hour marathon classes. Which is crazy? Or grad school? I'd say the latter except I also used to prepare this way for the Valencia classes. Well. Some of them. The ones I cared about (aka Economics).
Regardless, my goal is to start with good habits and try to carry them through. It'll be a struggle, but I sortof feel like having classes more often may be helpful, for me, in that I can't leave it all till Friday night to try to push through. You know, just until Sunday ...
Anyway. It feels good to finally be starting. Even more than starting orientation. This is the real deal!
A couple of the guys stopped by earlier, wanting to know what they need to prepare for tomorrow. It's all online in the Syllabus, but apparently they were ... I don't know, actually. Going to do it after? At any rate, they seemed a little surprised all this has to be done in advance, and more than a little freaked they haven't started yet.
For my part, I'm almost done with Accounting, for the moment. So the question is: go ahead and start on Stats? ... I like stats, but I think that may be a good idea.
One thing that amuses me? I kept wondering whether my book would be the one co-authored by my Stetson stats professor. Nope. No Thorne on there. I'm actually a little sad. She was enthusiastic, knowledgeable and clear. On the other hand, the two professors who spoke on Friday also seemed good, and it's the philosophy of GISMA to schedule classes around when the best professors will be available. So ... this should be fun, for certain specific values of fun.
Break over!
We have 3 classes this session, over 8 classes per week: 2 meet 3 times, 1 meets twice, 3 credit & 2 credit, respectively. Of course it's the 2 credit class that has all the reading. The other two are math (accounting for managers and statistics). Okay, technically the accounting class is how to interpret the statements, not how to generate them, but still it's mainly reminders at this point, not new info. Reminders of 3-years-old info. Which is definitely needed.
But here's the thing: I'm prepping for tomorrow, which will consist of 2 90 minute classes. At this point, I'm spending more time than I did for any of my Saturday 3-hour marathon classes. Which is crazy? Or grad school? I'd say the latter except I also used to prepare this way for the Valencia classes. Well. Some of them. The ones I cared about (aka Economics).
Regardless, my goal is to start with good habits and try to carry them through. It'll be a struggle, but I sortof feel like having classes more often may be helpful, for me, in that I can't leave it all till Friday night to try to push through. You know, just until Sunday ...
Anyway. It feels good to finally be starting. Even more than starting orientation. This is the real deal!
A couple of the guys stopped by earlier, wanting to know what they need to prepare for tomorrow. It's all online in the Syllabus, but apparently they were ... I don't know, actually. Going to do it after? At any rate, they seemed a little surprised all this has to be done in advance, and more than a little freaked they haven't started yet.
For my part, I'm almost done with Accounting, for the moment. So the question is: go ahead and start on Stats? ... I like stats, but I think that may be a good idea.
One thing that amuses me? I kept wondering whether my book would be the one co-authored by my Stetson stats professor. Nope. No Thorne on there. I'm actually a little sad. She was enthusiastic, knowledgeable and clear. On the other hand, the two professors who spoke on Friday also seemed good, and it's the philosophy of GISMA to schedule classes around when the best professors will be available. So ... this should be fun, for certain specific values of fun.
Break over!
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