Ding! Round 1.

Well round one of tests has started for this fall.

I finished my management test in about twenty minutes and ended up with a 94% thanks to listing "first line" instead of "line". A solid start to the semester's testing.

My second exam was Quantative Methods. After looking at th study guide and working with the material for about 20 minutes I honestly felt I knew the material solid. There were two definitions that gave me a hard time, but I ended up with a 100% on the in class portion. I am waiting on the take home part before I know my final grade, but I was stoked with the start to my semester.

If it sounds like I'm braggin it is only becuae I am trying to convince myself I am ok. I have my two hardest tests in 11 an 13 hours respectively and I don't believe I have an excellent grasp of the material in either class. Wish me luck, I'm definately going to need it.

I'll update you on how things are going as they progress.

Classes

Yesterday was the second half of my days from hell. Thank god its thursday and the rest of my week doesn't suck.

In Business Law we are each supposed to teach a concept (together with a small group) and we were assignment the Commerce Clause. I was excited because it is at least something interesting. I was also annoyed because the kid in my group 1. couldn't get what it said and 2. keep asking questions and slowing us down. So ten minutes after everybody else was done we finished. NOT FUN.

QM wasn't bad, I still cant follow upper level economic theory... hopefully that will come eventually.

So the house has kept me very busy lately. First I had an IFC trial, then rush (we got some awsome guys, if we get three more I will be falling over happy), and now I'm back to treasurer stuff. I think I have some budgets together.... Nothing will be finalized till November of course.

Here's the other thing. I'm running out of things to do. I have accomplished everything I wanted to get done. I did that a while ago. I have started taking on other projects to keep busy and keep from feeling worthless. Its like, all my job is now is to not get impeached. I don't mind doing it, I'm just ready to move on to something new. I like the small things I have picked up on the side (formal and parents committee members), but those are the sort of things that drive you nuts. You work on them lots and nobody really notices. Oh well, it will turn out, the house is on the way up at the moment and I'm pround to have a roll in that.

So on a law school note, I am going to see Iowa in October. Saw Southern. It is by far the worst law school I have visited so far. It doesn't even feel like a law school. I know lots of good attourneys from there (several in my firm, including the new associate and the top partner), but it just isn't for me. Sorta like NIU, only without the Public Administration policy that seems really interesting.

QM, Econ, and Junk

Well heres a brilliant thought from economics today:

The demand curve can slope up. Thats right readers, today we spent 75 minutes talking about something that has (maybe) happened once in human existance. We do not even know if it happened then. Now I'm all for theory and full understanding, but at some point it becomes more usefull for us to just talk to the prof about his research doesn't it? Heres my thought on the subject. We are good at making things. We get better at making things every year. The only extent to which inferior goods are consumed more is when a better good makes a previously normal good inferior (think Play Station 1).

On to QM. All I'm going to say is that if you really cannot understand what a standard distribution is, you have no chance at ever grasping a null hypothesis and thats about it for you and statistics. I HATE this class. I have never once learned anything about statistics (though I did learn some freak things DMB is the messiah).

Oh a positive note, today I have a Greek Week meeting where we will decide which things that people have asked us to make mandatory (in order to get attendence they wouldn't otherwise have) are important enough to force students to go to.

I'll let you know how it goes.

Research and Rumors

Well the last few days have been interesting to say the least. I have a partner to help me plan Greek Week again (so that is solid), and classes are in full force. For the frat guy part of this entry I'm just going to say that I have mixed feelings about rush thus far. On the plus side, I am excited that all of the guys we were really interested in came back. On the flip side, not many of the guys we were just sort of hoping to "pick up" along the way came back. In other words we still have all the guys we want comming back, but there aren't a lot of "others" in our rush class.

On another, mixed note, at IFC today somebody stood up and said: "All the rumors you have been hearing, at least the ons I have been hearing are false," then sat down. Let me make a suggestion to people that may be in this position in the future: If you are going to say a claim is false and lots of people have heard the rumors, then offer up the true explination. After this was said and the house president sat down there was one thing going through my, and every person I talkd to about the comments head: So the police reports and newspaper article are false...... what is the truth? Without an alternative explination its human nature to revert back to the claim that has been supported by two reliable sources.

As for the "research" part of this entry, today we talked more about Social Science research in PLS 209. The discussion was certainly interesting, especialy the talk about literature review. I wish I would have gone through this discussion a semester earlier because it would make the research for the paper I wrote much easier. MAJOR PLUS: Bradley have free access to LexisNexus for students. Awsome.