Monday, 25 February 2008
2 weeks to exams
Today in tow weeks the first exam is behind me and I start preparing for the second one ... the pressure and stress level is rising and I try to get the loose stuff in my head in the right way to create the big picture... Today we had the first of the two days of accounting revision, it was quiet good, even when I made again many mistakes, but this shows, that accounting can be done with practice practice practice ... Marketing will be even more difficult, there we have revision classes on Thursday and Friday... I still didn't manage it to finish my notes for Marketing, but I think I won't have time for this now... I'll try to go through different past papers now to learn how they expect us to answer the questions and get in the process of connecting the different topics like industrial analysis with market research and product development and so on...
Wednesday, 20 February 2008
Fire alarms juhuuuuuuuuuu
I didn't think that this university here has such a bad reputation, but a guy sent me this today:
http://news.scotsman.com/latestnews/400-false-alarms-in-3.3696556.jp
That's really a serious problem... I thought, that students are not that stupid, but I know even 2 guys of my MBA-class which set off the fire alarm! So it's not just "undergrads" like I thought...
Studying is going on, but much too slow... there are so many example cases to do for Accounting and the time is so short ... I don't know how to cover them all :( ... Tomorrow I'll go back to EBS to study... it was good to change the environment for a few times, but there it's a bit more quiet ... or at least at night :)
http://news.scotsman.com/latestnews/400-false-alarms-in-3.3696556.jp
That's really a serious problem... I thought, that students are not that stupid, but I know even 2 guys of my MBA-class which set off the fire alarm! So it's not just "undergrads" like I thought...
Studying is going on, but much too slow... there are so many example cases to do for Accounting and the time is so short ... I don't know how to cover them all :( ... Tomorrow I'll go back to EBS to study... it was good to change the environment for a few times, but there it's a bit more quiet ... or at least at night :)
Tuesday, 19 February 2008
Studying at the main library
Today I was studying again at the main library on campus like the last days. It's nice there, because you see other people around and not just always the same students and staff of EBS, but it's a lot more noisy and disruption and so I think I just go there tomorrow morning to see two other guys of my group to study and in the afternoon I go back to EBS and have a look if my room is still there :)
I switched to Accounting now, which is more a subject where it is important to practice all the stuff, but I'm still much too slow ... I tried hard today, but I don't know, it's not working at the moment ... I have the feeling that I studied much more last term ...
Oh and we had fire alarm number 18 for this term in our hall tonight ... looks like some guys will never learn it ...
I switched to Accounting now, which is more a subject where it is important to practice all the stuff, but I'm still much too slow ... I tried hard today, but I don't know, it's not working at the moment ... I have the feeling that I studied much more last term ...
Oh and we had fire alarm number 18 for this term in our hall tonight ... looks like some guys will never learn it ...
Sunday, 17 February 2008
Sunny Sunday
The last couple of days where surprisingly very nice, the sun was shining every day. It's still cold, but I don't care as long as I have a bit of sunlight during the day ... :)
The last three days I was sitting in the main library on campus to study there, on the 4th floor are tables for studying on the windows and from there you have a few over the park behind the building and so I was enjoying to study and see what's going on outside ... the view out of my window at EBS is getting a bit monotone ... so I feel a bit better now, I was out on Friday at a Jazz bar, was quiet good and on Saturday I went with a few People from Greece, China and Spain to a Spanish bar and was fun, too :)
I made it to reach Module 10 in Marketing for Revision (taking my notes), tomorrow I'll switch to Accounting, but still try to continue doing my Marketing notes in the evening ... lets see how it goes... :)
The last three days I was sitting in the main library on campus to study there, on the 4th floor are tables for studying on the windows and from there you have a few over the park behind the building and so I was enjoying to study and see what's going on outside ... the view out of my window at EBS is getting a bit monotone ... so I feel a bit better now, I was out on Friday at a Jazz bar, was quiet good and on Saturday I went with a few People from Greece, China and Spain to a Spanish bar and was fun, too :)
I made it to reach Module 10 in Marketing for Revision (taking my notes), tomorrow I'll switch to Accounting, but still try to continue doing my Marketing notes in the evening ... lets see how it goes... :)
Thursday, 14 February 2008
Motivation where are u?
Today I was a bit down, it started already yesterday evening. Don't know why, but I don't feel very well. Nevertheless I tried to study and get at least one Module a day done except of the planned tow ...
Tomorrow we have a new student rep meeting with EBS to give feedback about the second term. Like always the feedback is mixed, but a bit more positive ... at least after many discussions and experiences I think that there are two factors which makes this year not to the experience I was looking for. a) the group itself and their behavior makes it difficult to have something like study groups and social events and b) the full-time program at EBS has without functioning groups to study no incentive compared to the distance learners...
But the grass on the other side is always greener, I know ... :)
Tomorrow we have a new student rep meeting with EBS to give feedback about the second term. Like always the feedback is mixed, but a bit more positive ... at least after many discussions and experiences I think that there are two factors which makes this year not to the experience I was looking for. a) the group itself and their behavior makes it difficult to have something like study groups and social events and b) the full-time program at EBS has without functioning groups to study no incentive compared to the distance learners...
But the grass on the other side is always greener, I know ... :)
Tuesday, 12 February 2008
Marketing revision
I just realized, that I forgot to inform you guys about the weekend...
Friday we went by bus to a career fair in Glasgow, organized by the Business School there... it was kind of wasting time, because there haven't been any recruiter of the company's, there was just marketing staff and so noting serious happened except that they told everybody to apply online...
We stayed a night in Glasgow which was really cool, the people there are much more friendly and they have a great street for shopping with trees and no cars allowed :) Unfortunatelly I didn't bring my camera with me, but there are trains every 15min between Edinburgh and Glasgow and the return ticket costs round 10£ so it's affordable to be there soon again ...
Monday I started revision of Marketing, it's going a bit forward, but really slow... I don't know why, but I can't concentrate properly at the moment on my studies... so I started jogging again to have something for my balance and now it's a bit better ...
I made a picture to show where I'm usually go jogging... (red line ...)
Friday we went by bus to a career fair in Glasgow, organized by the Business School there... it was kind of wasting time, because there haven't been any recruiter of the company's, there was just marketing staff and so noting serious happened except that they told everybody to apply online...
We stayed a night in Glasgow which was really cool, the people there are much more friendly and they have a great street for shopping with trees and no cars allowed :) Unfortunatelly I didn't bring my camera with me, but there are trains every 15min between Edinburgh and Glasgow and the return ticket costs round 10£ so it's affordable to be there soon again ...
Monday I started revision of Marketing, it's going a bit forward, but really slow... I don't know why, but I can't concentrate properly at the moment on my studies... so I started jogging again to have something for my balance and now it's a bit better ...
I made a picture to show where I'm usually go jogging... (red line ...)
Wednesday, 6 February 2008
Pictures of your Term-Start-Party in Jan!
It's a long time ago, but finally I got some of the pictures :)
Accounting Day 3
The light on the end of the tunnel is coming closer and closer :)
It's really good to have this seminar, the guy is telling us a lot about Accounting in practice and has an example for every theory he can tell us of his own experience as an accountant. And we are doing lots of examples where we have to do the calculation e.g today for costs by ourselves and then he is explaining the solutions ... I'm happy that I make a few mistakes, because so I learn more :) ... on Sunday I have to teach a few guys in my group the stuff again, this should help to learn, too... when you explain some stuff to somebody you remember it better :)
We went out tonight to have dinner with tow guys of the distance program, this was quite good. Just as we almost finished our meal, the fire alarm in this complex went off and so we had to leave the restaurant and wait a while outside till we could go back... but the food was fine :)
It's really good to have this seminar, the guy is telling us a lot about Accounting in practice and has an example for every theory he can tell us of his own experience as an accountant. And we are doing lots of examples where we have to do the calculation e.g today for costs by ourselves and then he is explaining the solutions ... I'm happy that I make a few mistakes, because so I learn more :) ... on Sunday I have to teach a few guys in my group the stuff again, this should help to learn, too... when you explain some stuff to somebody you remember it better :)
We went out tonight to have dinner with tow guys of the distance program, this was quite good. Just as we almost finished our meal, the fire alarm in this complex went off and so we had to leave the restaurant and wait a while outside till we could go back... but the food was fine :)
Monday, 4 February 2008
Accounting Seminar Day 1
Today we started our Accounting seminar, it's really good. Now a lot more things I hardly understood at my self study make sense and we got many examples to practice. A friend who already did the Exam told me, that accounting is just practice practice and more practice and I think he is right! :)
The teacher is great, for every thing he explains to us he can give us a few examples of his own work as accountant and so it is better to understand the concepts behind...
Unfortunatelly the mix of the class is the worst I ever had till now!! At 9am when the seminar started there have been 13 guys, which was about 50% who should have been there and so in the first hour there have been interruptions of guys coming in late ... and after everybody finally had their seats the chatting started in the last rows and so everybody in the rows on the front got pissed of, because the acoustic design of this room is so great that you can hear everybody speaking at each part of the room... many guys complained to me after classes and so as the student rep I have to talk to the group tomorrow morning about their behavior ... I feel like going to a class of plumbers instead of a class of future managers!!
The teacher is great, for every thing he explains to us he can give us a few examples of his own work as accountant and so it is better to understand the concepts behind...
Unfortunatelly the mix of the class is the worst I ever had till now!! At 9am when the seminar started there have been 13 guys, which was about 50% who should have been there and so in the first hour there have been interruptions of guys coming in late ... and after everybody finally had their seats the chatting started in the last rows and so everybody in the rows on the front got pissed of, because the acoustic design of this room is so great that you can hear everybody speaking at each part of the room... many guys complained to me after classes and so as the student rep I have to talk to the group tomorrow morning about their behavior ... I feel like going to a class of plumbers instead of a class of future managers!!
Friday, 1 February 2008
Snow again!
At the moment the weather changes every few minutes... we have a mix between snow, wind and sun, sometimes rain ... oh and by the way, I'm not to lazy to run in wind ... but this wind here is a bit strong, sometimes it's impossible to stand still on a place because it blows so strong... even trucks on the road have been lifted up and fallen to the side...
Here is a picture of the Firth of Forth Bridge next to Edinburgh.
Studying goes on very well, I try to finish the Accounting book on time to the seminar starting on Monday, probably I have to read in the evenings of the seminar, too, but should work :)
Friday is a career fare for MBA students in Glasgow where our class is going to. Lets see, if my value increased through my new level of education...
Here is a picture of the Firth of Forth Bridge next to Edinburgh.
Studying goes on very well, I try to finish the Accounting book on time to the seminar starting on Monday, probably I have to read in the evenings of the seminar, too, but should work :)
Friday is a career fare for MBA students in Glasgow where our class is going to. Lets see, if my value increased through my new level of education...
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