Tuesday, September 3, 2013

Weekend Schoolwork Blitz Report

I finished working on school yesterday at 11:00 p.m. I wrapped things up by producing the lamest powerpoint I think I've ever made. It won't matter--it has all the elements required to make the evaluators happy. I just don't put any effort into explaining my slides since I do extensive presenter notes on the side. It's also very plain. My sister would be very disappointed with me.

But I did it. Twelve hours on Saturday, a break for the Holy Sabbath, and fifteen more hours on Monday. Poor Josh had baby duty almost exclusively on both of those days and he was in charge of meals (fast food hamburgers and pizza, respectively), but we both made it through. I seriously could not have gotten through so much work without his help. I think he was surprised by how much statistics that class had. We both agree it was significantly more difficult than Financial Analysis, which is supposedly the math-crazed demon class of the whole program. I didn't think Financial Analysis was very hard and it didn't take me very long to complete it, but Decision Analysis really took me down. One highlight of the course was my text to Josh after he had gone to work this morning: "Oy. You're going to have to help with the least squares method. I found the information in the textbook but somehow I projected next quarter's sales to be over 2 million dollars when the last nine quarters were around $100,000. Cannot for the life of me figure out how I screwed up." That happened. I still don't know what I did wrong.

 But I'm pleased to announce that with the addition of a couple of hours this morning, I have completed my entire Decision Analysis class. In two and a half days. It was hard to miss out on my family, but I am so so glad I chose to stay in and work this weekend. It truly was "labor" day weekend for me (har), but now I can sit back and enjoy my birthday knowing I accomplished something worth doing.


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