Marketing Final
On Friday morning, my classmates and I took the final for our core marketing class. It lasted four hours. Some described it as anti-climactic. Others found it challenging. I thought it was fair.
I think I did well enough, but I no longer attempt to guess how I perform relative to my classmates. I'm always wrong. My new approach is to aim for a perfect grade, thus ensuring that I get a decent one. My old strategy - trying to do better than just 10% of classmates - backfired a bit in the second half of my first semester.
Operations starts on Monday. I'm kind of bummed, as I really enjoyed my marketing class; and I doubt that Operations is going to excite me. But maybe it will. Who knows?
I think I did well enough, but I no longer attempt to guess how I perform relative to my classmates. I'm always wrong. My new approach is to aim for a perfect grade, thus ensuring that I get a decent one. My old strategy - trying to do better than just 10% of classmates - backfired a bit in the second half of my first semester.
Operations starts on Monday. I'm kind of bummed, as I really enjoyed my marketing class; and I doubt that Operations is going to excite me. But maybe it will. Who knows?
posted by Jerry Blank at 9:12 PM
5 Comments:
"Excitement" is not an emotion I would equate with Ops. "Occasionaly interesting", and "midly engaging" would probably land on the optimistic side of the scale. You may be one of those who is obsessed with the simulation game we play if you're feeling particularly nerdy. I'd try to hide that though, to avoid the wrath of classmates who might tell you to stick your lamba on the wrong side of the upper tolerance...
congrats on finishing marketing though, the noblest of all the disciplines...
So far this semester Operations has been really cool for us. It might be our professor James Rappold though. Thursday night and Friday we spent doing a computer simulation exercise that involves participants taking control of either distribution centers or factories in a global company. Apparently the rest of the course (11 weeks) will be primarily based around our performance and analysis of this simulation.
Good to see u movin on....marketing = Gone, ops will be gone soon :-) Cheers
Awesome your marketing final is overwith. Good luck with Ops! Who knows? May end up being a really interesting class. :-)
Cheers!
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