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This has been a loooooong weekend for me so far. A bunch of my classmates went on a trip to somewhere called Lake Shasta and are enjoying the time off swimming, boating, and generally hanging out. I, on the other hand, have been stuck here on campus behind my laptop plugging away at papers all weekend long. I had four of them to work on and I knocked out the third of those four last night. I planned to get the fourth one done today but I just needed a break to get my mind right. Hopefully, I’ll be able… Read the rest

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You’re probably wondering what Super Round is, so I’ll give a short description. There are several classes and professors at the GSB that are extremely popular and get oversubscribed each year. Because our registration order is determined by a lottery process, there is a chance that people could leave here without getting one of these popular courses/professors unless the Academic operations office intervenes. So, they run a process called the Super Round, in which we are given access to a list of popular courses for the three quarters of our second year and get to rank the 10 class sections… Read the rest

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Whew! It’s been a long week already, but I am steadily seeing the light at the end of the tunnel for this school year getting bigger and bigger…I can’t wait until the summer break starts in a few weeks.

Since yesterday at around noon, I am officially finished with my second class of the quarter, our 3-unit Non-Markets strategy. We had a take home exam due at 5pm and, because I was so anxious to be finished with that joint, I stayed up late on Tuesday and then got up early yesterday to get it knocked out as early as… Read the rest

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On Friday afternoon, I hit the friendly skies to go on a career trek to Las Vegas with the GSB Travel and Hospitality Club..and secretly wondered whether I would be able to behave myself down there. Just to provide a little background, Vegas is a place where I tend to act a fool because of the prevalence of two of my vices: liquor and gambling. Although some of the other GSBers on the trip were planning careers in the gaming industry, i went along because I have had an interest in how things work behind the scenes ever since my… Read the rest

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Whew, we just had a final exam for our Human Resources class this morning and I’m surprisingly refreshed as I look back on it. I found myself taking a different approach to this exam than I did for my other ones. For all of my other midterm/final exams, I would be all stressed out and would stay up until the early hours of the morning cramming the night before. This time around, i wasn’t stressed at all and only studied my notes for about an hour and a half. I don’t know if I thought the exam would be easy… Read the rest

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Dang, it’s getting harder and harder to find time to write entries in the past couple of weeks. The group meetings and assignments are taking up a bunch of time and I’ve also been having meetings with some of the GSB clubs and committees to go over their proposed budgets for next year. Being a Senator in our Student Association is cool and I’m glad that my classmates believed in me enough to elect me, but it takes up a ton of time. I guess this comes along with the territory of trying to be in a position where I… Read the rest

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