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Test Anxiety

Accounting Stuff, Geek Wannabe, General Comments Off

Apr 152008

Friday was the 2008 Phi Beta Lambda State Leadership Conference. Wake Tech had 38 students competing.

I was taking the test for Accounting Analysis and Decision Making. Two of my classmates, Super Smart Guy and Former Navy Guy, took the Accounting Principles test. That would have been my choice as well, but each school can only have two people in a particular test.

Out of the 38 who competed, 36 of us placed in our respective events. I placed sixth (my first question was “Out of how many?” but I’m told there were at least ten). Former Navy Guy placed fifth, and Super Smart Guy placed first. He’ll go on to compete in the national competition.

Naturally the instructors at Wake Tech are tickled pink, as this reflects quite well on them. The accounting department head was practically skipping to class today.

I’m Doing It Wrong

Geek Wannabe, General 1 Response »

Apr 102008

Angry Profressor related an e-mail she got yesterday—seems the young man missed a class, and wants to schedule a meeting so she can go over everything he missed with him. He’s free evenings and weekends.

I missed a class last Friday because I had some kind of stomach bug. I e-mailed another student to get the assignments, worked them over the weekend, and went to see the instructor yesterday during his office hours to go over the problems I’d had trouble with.

Clearly I need a much larger sense of entitlement.

On My Own

Breeder's Corner, Geek Wannabe, General Comments Off

Apr 042008

The spousal unit took the boys up to Canada this week. They’re out of school, and they wanted to see some historical family property that’s going to be sold out of the family within the year.

I am not out of school this week, so I stayed here.

The place has been freakishly quiet. Even more eerie is the way things stay where I put them. I clean up the kitchen, I go to bed, I wake up and the kitchen is still clean. It’s totally weirding me out.

I haven’t done much besides go to school and do homework this week. However, that’s not to say I haven’t been productive:

Practices project, due April 21: done.
Ethics paper, due at the end of the semester: done.
Software project 2, due April 4: done.
Software project 3, due April 18: done.
Software project 4, due May 2: done.

That Practices thing was assigned the second week of the semester. The professor cautioned us, “Make sure you work on this, I won’t be reminding you,” and I have been. I know at least three of my classmates have already turned theirs in—most of us are overachievers. I’m sure there will be at least a few who wait until the week before it’s due to start, and will then be panicking. I plan to laugh and mock them openly.

And the Software projects are all we’ll be doing for the rest of the semester. As in, I’m now finished with my Accounting Software class.

So I can now breathe a little easier, because all these big projects that were piling up as the end of the semester approaches are out of the way. Next week I can just concentrate on studying for the State Leadership Conference test.

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