Quarter 2 - Week 1

We had a one week vacation. That's it. We dont get any time off for another three months! Our schedules have been made available to us. We have Macro economics, Managing Organizations, and Business Statistics - 1 this quarter.

Our MacroEconomics prof has been really kind to us by giving us 2 phat books, and a bunch of binders to read from. Here I was, struggling to read half the book in a subject in our last quarter, she's handed us two! The binders will be given to us periodically. It's been made abundantly clear to us that if we dont put our backs into reading these books and coming prepared for class, we'd be lost in our later sessions. She's quick to tell us that no dumb/deviating questions will be entertained, I'm really suspecting she's spoken with our previous profs about our mentality. We sure are interactive, but we tend to go insane with our questions!

Our ManOrg prof is the cool calm types... he's mixing theory with case studies. We started off with studying the structure of organizations, the apex, the operating core and the middle levels. The additional sections that support this structure were also mentioned, I dont remember the names now. He's given us a book, and a binder. Sure is a lot to read this term, methinks!

Our BizStats prof means business. He's extremely fun and energetic in class. He makes up for it by being a total terror in terms of expectations. A no-nonsense guy, he's told us in politically correct terms that he wont listen to our bullshit. Deadline means deadline. Practice means practice. He is not going to hold our hands and lead us along the beaten path. He's clearly told us to read the book, and that in his class we get to see how it gets applied. He also seems to be a fan of open source software, he's getting us to install and experience some cool apps. Let's see how that goes. He is really well read, and makes a lot of references in his jokes to things I fail to catch half the time. Sure keeps us awake, I'll give him that! Who else could probably makes statistics seem like an interesting subject?!