Winter quarter exams have started…

Today was the start of winter quarter exams and, if today’s test was any indication of what I’ve got ahead of me, I’m in for a doozey of a week.

It all started with the final for my Strategy class this morning from 9am to noon. We’d been given access to last year’s exam as a study tool and, although my prof told us that the test would be more difficult than last year’s, I wasn’t even close to ready for this one. Last year’s exam had a total of 10 questions and was worth a total of 38 points…this year’s was a MONSTER with at least 25 questions that were worth a total of 100 points. I’d reviewed our strategy book and writeups of each case over the weekend, but there wasn’t much that I could do to spin myself up for this one. The hardest part of the test was the second half of it, which involved the analysis of a case that the professors made up. If we’d had an additional hour, I would have been fine (this one was 3 hrs vs. the 4 hrs that we were given for our Fall quarter finals), but I just ran out of time at the end. I’m afraid to think of how I did, but I’m cross my fingers for at least a passing grade…THANK GOODNESS FOR OUR NON GRADE DISCLOSURE POLICY!!! 🙂

We’ve got Marketing tomorrow morning, so I’m about to jump into that studying now. I wish I’d made better use of my time in studying over the weekend, but I was so burnt out from the classes and internship search that I couldn’t get myself to start grinding bigtime on it until yesterday afternoon. I’ve got a long three days ahead of me.

One last thing…I received word last night from the School of Education that I’d officialy been accepted into the MBA/MA in Education joint degree program, so I am feeling really good despite getting run over by the truck that was my Strategy exam. I signed the acceptance paperwork this afternoon and I’ll officially be enrolled starting next quarter. It’s going to be tough to get both degrees done in two years, but I’m focused and am ready to take on the extra courseload over the next four quarters to make it happen. Hopefully, I’ll be able to apply the lessons I get from the Ed. school classes later on in the non-profit activities that I have in mind.