I'm Like Kyle

So I quit the band.

Sort of.

There were a lot of factors that went into this decision, those being:

1. I’m taking 19 freaking hours. But I took this last spring, so this data alone is not sufficient enough to support this idea. (OMG- GMAT DATA SUFFICIENCY!!!)
2. Just kind of disregard the crazy end to that bullet point. But actually, taking the GMAT this upcoming summer and having to study for it could potentially be another reason…
3. I’m working- which wasn’t so terrible last semester when I was only taking 15 hours and had my mornings to do homework. But now I have class instead of those beautiful quiet mornings (well, I could still have the mornings, but it’d be like 6 AM as opposed to 8), so my homework time is nights and weekends.
4. I am an officer in the Accounting Association. Last semester I was like “Let’s have meetings on Tuesdays so it doesn’t conflict with Beta Alpha Psi meetings on Wednesdays!” And so we did. But now everyone wants to switch it back because our president has a class on Tuesday during our meeting time. So that means that in order to do AA (yes, I’m admitting I have a problem), I’d wake up Wednesday for my 8:00 class, go to school 8-12, work 12:30-5, meet with AA 5-6:30, cook something??, and have RUF 7:30-9:45. Tres impossible.
5. And that’s not just Wednesdays. There’s RUF practice, Officer’s meetings, extra other nightly doodoo that might come up like eating dinner with the Georgia Society of CPAs, which has happened before, or group projects (BIG RAWR), which cuts out a lot of my nights, and I simply refuse to do a 19 credit hour week’s worth of homework on the weekends. Especially if I go home.

So I quit the band.

Sort of.

I agreed to play next week and maybe later on in the semester when everyone else is freaking out about finals.

But enough about me- let’s talk about ME!

MWF are my FAVORITE classes- even though they start at 8. I have Management, which is sort of like Business Kindergarten (“Let’s learn what an organization is! Look how important teamwork is!” I seriously don’t know why this is a 3000 level course). But then I have Applied Stats, which is awesome---

“WAIT, WHAT!?!?!?! Have you lost your MIND, ALLIE J?!?!?! You HATED Statistics with the burning passion of a thousand burning suns!”

Aye. But my teacher is SO GOOD and even reminds me a little of Gentry. It’s actually a MATH class and not an evil seminar in Korean quantum mechanics.

I’m not even sure what quantum mechanics is, but it sounds as hard as statistics was.

And then I have Managerial Accounting (which is actually less fun than financial because it’s internal to the organization and not external, but it’s still love love love).

And then I have my ERP with SAP class which is just fun, even though it may not sound that way to you. Basically, we get to play around on this database and run business processes. Also- awesome teacher.

And then TR I have Marketing, ERP Configuration, and IDS which is the last of my core. Nothing special there.

But with all these business classes, I actually feel like I’m going to learn something relevant to either my next job or even my own business. And this is EXCITING! Today in App Stats we did profit maximization of a Native American bowl/mug business- like what combination of bowls and mugs, given a limited number of clay and hours, would maximize the profit.

Not that Native Americans would earn a living this way. In reality, they would just open a casino out west, but that’s neither here or there.

But while we were doing this, I was thinking how many labor hours involved in making dresses and skirts, how much material, and then I was like- HOLY CRAP! This is RELEVANT!

It was an amazing revolution. Who knew that going to college might actually teach you something?

I offered to play Halo with Cleve if he'd paint my toenails.
Apparently, this isn't a fair trade.

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T.T.