Accounting Stuff – Page 13

One More Week!

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Apr 252008

We’ve got one more week of classes—two days of actual class, and three days of exams.

Two of my classes aren’t actually having exams. One is having a guest speaker come talk to us about her real-life work experience with fraud and internal controls; in the other one we’re just supposed to stand in front of the class and give a brief presentation on the final paper we wrote. Normally I loathe presentations, but this is a very laid-back class and all the students are very supportive of each other. I don’t anticipate it being a problem. (I finished the paper itself several weeks ago.)

This morning out of curiosity I calculated what I need on my Intermediate final if I want to make an A in the class. Turns out I’ll need at least a 32. I’m not too worried about that final.

Yesterday the three of us who competed in the PBL State Leadership Conference went to a little award ceremony in the student lounge to get our certificates. During the ceremony I learned that the tests we took were 400-level tests. As in, some of the people we were competing against were fourth-year university students. Maybe sixth place wasn’t that bad.

I think I embarrassed Super Smart Guy a bit when I cheered as he went to accept his first-place plaque. You really just can’t take me anywhere.

Deadline!

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Apr 212008

Our big huge semester-long project was due today.

The cafeteria was strangely empty at lunch. I was looking around wondering where all my accounting buddies were. Where’s the Sweet, Studious Boy? Where’s Energetic Outgoing Guy, or Sociable Senior Student, or Tall Brainy Dude?*

Just before class started, Tall Brainy Dude strolled in looking amused. “There were, like, eighteen people in the ILC**, finishing this project,” he informed us. Part of his amusement was that he was one of those people. “I had a choice over the weekend to work on this, or play video games with my friends,” he added later. “I made a bad choice.”

Schadenfreude isn’t nearly as much fun as I thought it would be. I figured I’d get to sit around feeling all smug and superior because I turned mine in weeks ago, but instead I just felt bad for all the people scrambling to make the deadline. Been there too many times myself, I guess.

Still, the instructor is a lot nicer than I would be about it—if they’re turned in late, he’s just going to mark off 10% of the grade for each day overdue. If it were me, I wouldn’t accept them late, period. So I haven’t completely forsaken bitchiness.

Oh yeah, the test I was fretting about because I’d finished it so quickly? I got a 100. But I still maintain that I could misunderstand the material without realizing it. Just wait, one of these days I’ll bomb spectacularly on a test. That’ll show him.

*Obviously a brief label can’t sum up the entirety of a person, but I don’t like to use real names on the blog so they’ll have to do.

**Our campus Individualized Learning Center

Test Anxiety

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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.

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