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Name: neener
School: USC Marshall School of Business
Status: Employed...finally
E-mail: Click here!
Reason for blogging: I'm incredibly self-absorbed. |
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I'm listening to...
::"Stay Beautiful," The Last Goodnight
::"Spaceman," The Killers
::"Green Light," John Legend
::"Superstar," Lupe Fiasco
I'm watching...
::24
::The Office
I'm reading...
::Taiwan, A Political History, by Denny Roy
::The Devil and Miss Prym, by Paulo Coehlo
I've just seen...
::Slumdog Millionaire
::I Love You, Man
::The Reader
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Taking Procrastination to a Whole New Level I don't know how I do it...but I do. I told myself that I would get my individual strategy assignment done on time, but knowing me, that just was not going to happen. The strategy project was due today in class, and I actually read the case on Sunday night (pretty good, huh?). However, I just could not get started on it. I managed to scrawl notes all over the case and amass a rather bedraggled pile of notebook paper with more notes written on it, but I could not organize my thoughts in a coherent manner, let alone provide them in the format asked for by the prof. I started typing and making diagrams in the wee hours of the morning. I worked on it, went to Starbucks for some chai latte where I worked on it some more, went to school and headed to the library where I worked on it some more, and then worked on it during a Career Resource Center (CRC) workshop I stupidly signed up for. Then I worked on it some more and printed it out at 3:50 PM, just in time for class at 4:10. What can I say? I'm good. I'm the Queen of Procrastination. Respect it.
All the case readings in Strategy are slowly changing my life. I can't look at a computer ad ("Intel Inside..dum-dum-dum-dum!"), drive by a Wal-Mart, or play Nintendo without thinking about "competitive advantage" and "sustainability." What is happening to me?
Now it's time to study for my accounting midterm tomorrow. Debits. Credits. T-accounts. Accounts receivable. Inventory. LIFO and FIFO. Accounting is hard. It's not so much that the math is difficult; it's just dealing with all these "what happens if someone recorded this transaction incorrectly?" problems. Correcting accounting errors is just tedious and tricky. Since b-school just seems to love "take-home" messages, here's my take-home message from accounting: When I run my own business, I'm hiring an accountant.
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When I learn a new word, I'll put it here so you can learn too!
EBITAS (noun):
Abbreviation for "Earnings Before Income Tax, Amortization, and SGARA." Next week, find out what SGARA is.
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