CMU
Things are going well at college for me – things are getting routine. Instead of bringing my GPS with me to Mt Pleasant, I’ve started leaving it at home. I figure the iPhone can handle anything I need to find anyway.
Supply Chain Management: I can now say that I don’t think this is something I’d like to do for a career in the future. It’s gone past the first chapter introduction information and has moved on to ratios and the like. Nothing mindblowing, but the way it’s presented is not the way I would think if I were in the situation in the business world.
Python Programming: I’m 40% complete with the classwork, and have been doing it from home mostly. I plan on hopping in for some assistance on the next chapter though, some of the syntax in this language is a little off. This is somewhat challenging since I’m basically teaching myself.
Financial Analysis: Easy so far – still doing annuities and perpetuities and the like. So far it’s mostly been review. I had to buy a calculator since my graphing one isn’t what the book is based on. I’m not really that pleased with the BA-II calculator as it’s kinda janky in the way that it requires input. Then again, I didn’t want to use the graphing one because it too has a bad input method for uneven cash flows and other finance items. Stuff like this, but longer since this is a small example: NPV(12,0,{100,200,300,400,500})*1.12^5. Yeah, I don’t want to do that on a test.
Marketing Management: I’m enjoying this class more than I thought I would. I don’t know if that’s a good or a bad thing. I recently received the outline of the final project and started compiling data for my company, Urban Outfitters. Everything is group-work based in this class so far, it seems. As a veritable hermit, that’s challenging.
Integrated Business Experience: SAP. So we’ve started to use the industry leading Enterprise Services product. I’m actually very excited about this class. Good experience with this product is very marketable.
Week 30-31
She now weighs about 3 pounds, and is starting to become quite the boxer. I can now sit back and watch Jolene’s stomach’ jump’ at me. She’s regularly kicking, both her brother in the head as well as my hand. The baby is gaining weight still, and this is making Jolene more uncomfortable. She’s dealing with it well, however. We also got a new Pack n’ Play (thanks mom and dad!). It’s got some rather unique features. Putting it all together felt like I was a soldier putting together an M-16 for the first time – it was harder than some of the content of the classes listed above. It comes with a vibrating device and a light as well, plus changing table, plus a napping pad. This is really what we need, given our little area we have.
Beasties 1st Week at School
The other two beasties had a successful first week at school.
“Yeah, yeah, whatever David, I’m off to school…”
I didn’t get to hear much from the kids since I’ve been going to school during the times that they’ve been getting out. All of the exciting news gets simmered down by the time I hit the house. I missed both of the orientations because of school too. Things seem to have gone well though, and adjustments have been successful: Ben for not having his sister at school with him for the very first time, and Maddie for going to a new, more grown up school.
Overall, everything is going exceedingly good, but also exceedingly busy.
