I am loving every minute of the MBA, including the academic part. Right now, I am studying for Managerial Economics. Karlitos has more experience with this concepts, but I am catching up!
Seriously, I am enjoying myself like a kid with a new ball (or so we say in Spanish), learning at classes. The highlights:
- Finance and Financial Accounting: I had zero education in these areas. And I am learning a lot and very effectively. Good teachers who know their stuff. For these classes, having an engineering background helps, because the concepts are simple, mathematical and straightforward
- Managerial Economics: Ten years ago, I did Economics 101. Now I am relearning the basics. Great fun. Exam in two days. Let’s see how it goes.
- Strategy: I am learning a lot. Amazing classes, giving excellent frameworks, good discussions, better cases, top teacher. The class I am enjoying the most. Every lesson provides new insights on how to set up succesful businesses and how to develop a good strategy.
- Information Systems Fundamentals: I got the results of the test yesterday. Very good news, I waived it, to have more free time with other stuff.
Part of the classes succes is attention to feedback, as Manish reported. Professors are responsive, and that is much appreciated. I would prefer some courses to go a little bit faster, but polls suggest that overall people are ok with the pace. Myself, I take advantage of the slower pace in some classes to review the concepts while on class.
To finalize, and I know you know, but wikipedia is the best source of information ever!
Ceteris paribus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ceteris paribus is a Latin phrase, literally translated as “with other things [being] the same,” and usually rendered in English as “all other things being equal.” A prediction, or a statement about causal or logical connections between two states of affairs, is qualified by ceteris paribus in order to acknowledge, and to rule out, the possibility of other factors which could override the relationship between the antecedent and the consequent.
October 31st, 2006 at 8:26 pm
manegerial econ is so not fun..im talking the turbo course and it is killing me!
-ash
November 3rd, 2006 at 2:14 pm
[…] Naturally, academics have been another popular topic - of a number of positive comments, no less. Given the Parker Center’s resources, Aregon23 is finding Cornell to be the perfect place to indulge his interests in stocks and investing, while Paxti is deriving tremendous pleasure from Econ class in London. Also happy with their school selection and the opportunities it affords them, Sean is impressed with caliber of the LBS-sponsored speaker series and Ash comments on some prominent visitors to Stanford. Also on the topic of business leaders, it sounds as though James is taking a lot away from a course taught by Jack Welsh at Sloan. Of course, there are - or are about to be - some trials as well. Back from break, DomoDomo offers a rundown of his current INSEAD courseload and From Cali feels the pressure of academics, recruiting and activities, and reflects on the importance of pushing herself to get the most out of her time at Michigan. Meanwhile, Tim (formerly Kilgore Trout) has been keeping very busy with classes and activities at McCombs and is starting to feel worse for the wear, and LL is bracing herself for what Wharton Q2 has in store. […]