The Final is Finally Fini
About an hour ago I finished my final for Operational Management. Finally it is done! Brutal!
This entire class has been brutal. I was hoping for a nice change of pace after statistics finished last semester. The first week into the class, I was feeling ok. But as we dove into week 2 I realized…hey this is statistics light! WTF??? I started having significantly less fun. Not because of the realization, but because of the topic. Lets just say that statistics and I aren’t really friends.
So I trudged through the material. Of course the most frustrating part of this class was that I got it! I understood it. I understood the formulas and the graphs and the theories. I got it….but you would not know that from my grades. All my quiz scores made it look like I was a remedial student. Which, if you have read this blog you will know about my Adventures in Hypnotherapy to help deal with my little testing problem. I would say that the hypnotherapy was successful. I did not get hypnotized and start getting straight A’s, but I did start doing better. Ok, I only had one more quiz after my hypno session, but I did much better on that!
As for my final, it was satisfactory. But I was jubilant because not only am I done with the horrid class but I believe I have secured myself a B in the class! Yay me!!!!
I now move on to Managerial Economics. I hope this is a little better than statistics. I have a week off and then back to the books. The one good thing about having 1 class every 6 weeks, is that the bad ones don’t last too long and you really get to feel like you are flying through the program! I am now 33% done with the program! WOOO!!!!
A phrase that was prevalent at Smith, when I was an undergrad, has been on a loop inside my head:
“Done is better than good.”
For most people, they don’t understand that. Basically what it means, is sometimes no matter what you do, it will never be perfect. Sometimes, with the time you have, the tools available to you, and the obstacles that you have had to overcome, you have to accept that there is a point when you just have to say, this is as good as it gets. But not only do you have to say this, you have to accept it and be satisfied with that. Sometimes we just have to push through and let go.
You know, getting an MBA as a full time student and working full time is not as easy as it looks! Though, maybe I am not making it look very easy. Hmm, a quandry.
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First off, getting your MBA full time and working full time was NEVER going to be easy. I know. I did it in the 80’s.
Second, congratulations on finishing the horrid stats class. I agree, sometimes done is better than good. I am currently back in grad school, and this semester I am taking a really difficult (for me) web design course. As I’m not computer literate I have to learn a ton of basic stuff before I get to the stuff in the class. I am always behind. At this point I just want to pass so that I can graduate this April. Wish me well. I wish you well in managerial econ. I hate to say it, but it’s about as boring as stats…sorry!
I am sure your class is extremely difficult, I imagine lots of details and technical material. yikes. It is a lot harder when you are having to make up for a lack of knowledge just to keep up with what you are learning. You graduate in april? You are almost there! Great job!