So… where have I been?

Things have gotten a bit hectic around here to say the least. The lack of updates prior to reading was almost purely due to laziness, but since then, it’s been quite the first year experience here. Midterms galore. It’s bad enough that I have to take 6 courses, but two of them have 2 midterms. One of them just happens to be economics, the course I absolutely loathe. It’s junk, all junk. The entire course is theory based, which at first doesn’t seem all too bad, but then they have to make up some huge number that somehow all relate to each other in the stupidest ways. I seriously don’t understand how anyone could do that for a living. It’s all ass.

But then there’s business. Ah yes, the course that takes up 75% of my time. We had this collective bargaining simulation in a couple of our labs these past weeks. It was supposed to be not too difficult, but it ended up taking up so much time in preparations, actual negotiations, not throttling the management (we repped the union), then readjusting the stupid FREAKING agreement ‘cause the idiots on the other team made some huge mistakes in calculations that cost them way more than what would’ve been acceptable for them. Then we have to write a paper on the whole process and what we apparently learned from it. And the latter bit of this was happening while trying to study for midterms, especially the actual business midterm. I tell you, my prof has got some issues. First of all, she’s rather mannish (I swear, she must be somewhere in the neighbourhood of 6’3”), but besides that, she is THE most anal person I’ve ever met. She required almost EXACTY wording on most of the questions in order for you to get the marks. I sure hope the rest of my profs in the next few years aren’t like this. How did I do? Let’s just say… not too well. It’s “only” worth 27% out of the semester, so it’s not too bad.

But this is the real hell week. In the first semester, our group’s major project for business was to come up with a unique business proposal, and pitch it to the class. That part was pretty easy, mainly because there wasn’t much need for any number crunching or technical mumbo-jumbo. Then second semester rolls around and NOW we have to do all that. Projected earnings, growth rates, marketing, you name it, we gotta do it. It’s due on Friday, and it’s easily going to be more than 50 pages. Our idea is a campus car rental place, targeted mainly to students at an affordable rate. The idea is to give students a mode of transportation that is convenient and cheap. We’re basing it mostly for the Waterloo area since the public transit usually takes too long, and taxis are too expensive. I’m not even sure if the business idea is feasible or not, but I guess that’s the whole point of coming up with an idea, just to see if it’d be profitable or not. If you’re interested in more details… maybe I’ll post the final report up here sometime. It’s all I’ve been hearing for the past while, so I’d rather not go that much more into it. Oh, and I have two more midterms, a lab and a test on Thursday and Friday too. Yippee.

On the brighter side of life though, as you all have probably heard anyway, congrats to Jensen and Vivian on their engagement. My goodness, old. I knew it was going to happen, but caught me by surprise anyway. Hey… does this mean I’m going to be on the receiving end of more lucky money?

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