Back to School!

I was going to continue with what happened in Cabo, but we got back to L.A. in the meantime, life got in the way, and here we are: it's Sunday night and tomorrow is "back to school" day. I am excited to go back, but I'm definitely not looking forward to the workload. I used to get very frustrated and didn't get why graduate school is so much work if you cannot possibly get everything done. Then I realized - or at least that's what I've been telling myself to feel better - that one of the things business school teaches is to prioritize.

This session I manage to have only 8 a.m. classes. It sounds brutal, but I feel that I'm going to be so much more productive if I'm forced to wake up early and then I'm done with class at noon. If I have an afternoon class, then I tend to sleep in - that is if waking up at 7 a.m. qualifies as that - then I can't do too much because at 10 a.m. I start getting ready for class and by the time I get back home around 6-7p.m., I don't feel like doing anything productive. Finishing class at noon is going to give me the rest of the day to get my work done. Hopefully this little ploy of mine is going to work and watch out, Pepperdine, I'm going to become the definition of the word productive.

My first class tomorrow is Finance. I've never taken a finance class, so when I was deciding on classes, I asked some second-year students for advice. I told them I needed a "Finance for Dummies" class and a professor with a lot of patience. I realize this is graduate school and my request is ridiculous, but I'm spoiled by nature, so you can't really blame me for asking. Luckily, they had a recommendation for me. So, I signed up for Prof. Harjoto's and I guess I'll find out tomorrow how that's going to work out. Just reading the class assignments for tomorrow got me sort of nervous as I felt that part of it was going over my head. Luckily, I understood most of it and got excited that now I get how the stock market works - something I was never really interested in - and realized that so much of Financial Accounting goes hand-in-hand with Finance. I quietly thanked my accounting professor for making us analyze financial statements as part of our individual project, because now I understood what chapter 3 was all about. Although I thought I would never say this, I'm pretty excited about Finance class. I do predict a love-hate relationship at times because of the math involved and all the formulas. But the concepts and the strategy behind financial decisions, that's exactly what I came to learn in business school!

Wish me luck though, I'm still not ready to go back.