I tell you something....it's a night like tonight that just makes me want to throw up my hands and say I give up. I had this final in this Managerial Economics class tonight, and I felt pretty good about it. Granted, I didn't study as much as I probably should, but I felt that I had a good handle on it. Well, the final wasn't even comprehensive & was just over 2 chapters! Well, like the big dumbass that I am, I had this false feeling of security about the test as well. Well, all I can say now is DAMN!! I just totally got my ass kicked on that thing. However, the teacher is pretty cool and unless he has changed his grading style, I think he will give me half the points for each problem I worked just because I tried them. All I had to make to get a B was like a 36 (assuming that I made a 90 on this group paper). But it really sucks so bad to have an A to the point that you can smell it & then f*cking bomb the final and lose it and see it turn into a B. It is especially bad when you realize later that B being an A would help you out after you get a f*cking C! I just sometimes question so much why I'm doing this in going back to school.....*sigh*....at least I get 3 months off before I go through this hell again.
lol...I already know. I'm taking 2 classes at night and working 40 hours a week. I'm trying to get my MBA (I got my B.S. in 1995).
Manny, you have to stop these "school sucks" posts. I've been toying with the idea of going back, but every time I read about your miserable experiences I seriously question my plans.
There are compensations, Mrs. JB. Be a TA and enjoy great opening sentences like this one: 'F*ck Jim Crow. Separate but equal my ass!' *That's* worth grading 125 finals for.
Ah, Mrs. JB, you should know me by now that I'm embittered about having to work and going to school by now. You know that all I want to do is listen to CDs all day and be a music critic writer! Actually, it is not all that bad. It is that I just have high standards for myself, and I feel that I don't have the motivation that I could have had if I went straight through school instead of taking an extended break.
Well, why don't you? You obviously have the passion for it as well as the musical knowledge. You could start writing for your school paper, then work your way up from there. Hell, start your own website devoted to great music. You're lucky Manny, at least you know what you love -- some of us haven't even figured that out yet.
sleep is so good... i love sleeping so much... i wish my school would burn down so i could sleep even more. please god make my school burn down.
Manny, When you got your B.Sc back in '95, what did you transcript look like? Would you classify your grades/GPA as very good (almost all A's, a few B's, no C's or D's), decent (mostly B's, a few A's, a couple of C's) or poor (mostly C's with a few B's & D's)? Bearing this in mind, how difficult was it to get into your current MBA program? Is the program highly competitive or relatively easy to get into? Did they heavily scrutinize your B.Sc transcript before letting you in? Since you finished you degree so long ago, how hard was it to get letters of reference from former professors? Or, were they not required at all? What do you hope to accomplish by getting this MBA? Where do you see yourself career wise in 2-5 years? I ask all this because a MBA program is something I am considering myself. I got my BA last fall.
Fade: I graduated high school in 1991 and got my Bachelor's of Science from MTSU in mathematics in 1995. My undergrad GPA was like 3.65 and the only C's I ever made as an undergrad were in FORTRAN programming (had a terrible teacher) and the first semester of calculus-based physics (my teacher for that class had as much personality as the wall next to me) & they both happened in the same semester! That was that ill-fated 18 hours in the fall of my sophomore year & was also with Calc III, Linear Algebra, and Macroeconomics....I learned a good lesson there (don't load up so heavy on courses in a semester). When I graduated in '95, I didn't really know what to do. I went straight onto graduate school in Alabama thinking that I wanted a Master's and teach junior college math like calculus. Well, 2 years went by and I wound up with below a 3.0 GPA. My assistantship had expired, I was burned out, and yada-yada-yada, I'm back living at home with my parents. After taking a dead-end job at a bank and doing that for a little over 2 years, I finally got lucky and got my present job. Two of the guys I worked with both had undergrad degrees in engineering but had MBAs. One of them, especially, pushed me to go back. MTSU, being my alma mater, was an easy choice for several reasons: 1) It wasn't that expensive 2) It was the closest 3) It would be the most convenient for someone who works 40 hours a week I wouldn't say that the program is highly competitive. All you have to do is take the GMAT. They then take your score off that test and add it to your undergrad GPA which had been multiplied by 200. You, then, had to have at least 950 to get in. Example - with a 3.65 undergrad GPA, you multiply that by 200, and you get 730. Therefore, all I had to do was make a 220 on the GMAT & you get a 200 just for putting your name on the test. I didn't do that hot, but I'm not good at standardized tests like that & I wasn't sweating it. I didn't have to have any letters of reference, but of course every school is different. If you are going to the same place where you got your undergrad, it may not be required. It would probably be required if you went somewhere else. However, because I had a technical degree, I had to take all these freaking prereqs like Business Law, Intro to Finance (took the final for it last Friday), Intro to Accounting, etc. There are 6 of these classes in all & I take my final prereq (a Mgmt class) in the fall. What do I hope to accomplish by getting a MBA? Well, I'm doing it for 3 things: 1) In case I get laid off, I can still find, hopefully close, a decent job 2) Increase in my salary 3) Considering that I was close to a M.S. in math, it would be great to get a MBA, then I would finally feel some closure on that failed part of my academic career. I still got a long way to go as it will be another 3 years of classes. However, when I'm almost 32, I should have it. I will have logged 5 years at my job & hopefully I will be looked upon as a key player for the compnay that I work for. Good luck if you decide to pursue an MBA. Mrs. JB: I can dream, can't I??!! I'll have to address your post in this thread off-line and sometime later.
Amen, Manny. I'm on the 6 year undergraduate program. by the way, nice new sig. That there That's not me I go Where I please I walk through walls I float down the Liffey I'm not here This isn't happening I'm not here I'm not here
