the finish line and the vacation
More than four months after being admitted to school, I have FINALLY completed all of my prematriculation requirements. I will be happy if I never have to write the word “prematriculation” again. Today I learned about heteroskedasticity. It’s a much more enjoyable word to write.
To recap, this marks the end of two full courses in Finance and Accounting, and three online modules in Finance, Accounting, and Quantitative Analysis.
Next week, I’ll be driving out of IL, bound for Cambridge for good. As one other prematric requirement, I have to attend “analytics” (read: math camp) for two weeks before classes start. Everyone who I’ve talked to says that it’s actually a really great experience, and that a lot of interesting people go to it, so I’m looking forward to it, but it’s hard to believe I’ll be in classes in 2 weeks.
Right now I’m just looking forward to vegetating for the next few days. And ticking off the list of miscellaneous to-do’s.
taking a break
Yesterday I completed the HBS finance tutorial. And I passed. Glad to have that out of the way. There were a few concepts on it, like levered and unlevered betas, which I found complicated. I thought maybe I was not made for finance, and then my friend from New York arrived last night and told me he had to do levered and unlevered betas on the CFA level 3 in June. I thought my module was supposed to be introductory. The CFA3 is pretty complicated. Oh well.
I’m spending the next two nights in downtown Chicago with the buddy from NYC. Looking forward to a break from suburbanity. Next week a friend from DC visits on Monday, and then I head out of town on Tuesday. Will be racing the clock to finish the QA tutorial for school, but I’m less worried about that than the finance one.
Summer vacation is great.
Sidebar – why is it that people always “can’t wait til summer,” “can’t believe summer’s halfway over,” “can’t believe summer’s going so fast,” etc.? I guess it’s the weather, but I know a lot of people who love cold/winter, and I never hear them say these things about winter. Just a thought.
coursework complete.
I have officially finished the prematriculation coursework requirements as of this morning. My finance final exam was fine. Glad that it’s over. The remaining big tasks are: Finance Tutorial and Quantitative Analysis Tutorial, both are online modules offered by HBS. I will likely finish those over the next few weeks, but for now I’d like to focus on the remaining time I have left with my friends in New York City.
I also have to begin to get my head around packing/moving. My boxes of supplies, including these rolls of tape, which are awesome, arrived this week. Sadly u-haul left a few things out of the shipment, so I’ve begun the customer service process, hoping to have the rest of my goods by week’s end. I don’t plan to officially pack until after I quit my job and go away for the 4th, but having the supplies here makes me think about it…
