If you have been folllowing my Instagram, you will note that lately I have been posting pictures (aside from selfies joke!) about my adventures in Graduate school.. I have been occupied with my Financial Management subject ever since the start of the year (well, sadly it's the reason why I haven't posted a year-ender blog). They say, FINMAN is hardest subject before STRAMA (Strategic Management) and I couldn't agree more. I've been contemplating for the longest time if my decision to take MBA is worth it. But oh well, I believe in delayed gratification. I know someday, this will pay off. Well...in fact I'm starting to reap some of the benefits (though the cons still outweigh the pros) Hahahaha! I really can't wait to finish my MBA! Four more terms (supposedly three but I have decided to major in Marketing so I need to take additional electives) and I'm done!!!!
We always chant these in our Finman class:
"No pain... No gain"
"No risk... No return"
Hahaha! I'm just so happy that our Midterm exam in FinMan is over. But then the worse is yet to come. I can do this (repeat to self a million times)
Let me share something that I witnessed weeks ago. For the past four Saturdays, I have been studying Finman at Starbucks RCBC while waiting for my boyfriend (who always do Overtime work on Saturdays gah haha). So, I will be at Starbucks from 8:30am up to sawa (yeah 'sawa' talaga because as much as I try to study for more than 8 hours straight, napapagod din naman brain ko but then I would still have to wait for 3 more hours because apparently, di napapagod mag-OT si boyfie). Haha, and so I was there really really early in the morning and most of the time, I'm the only customer (which favors me because I really don't like distractions -- Fiman inaaral ko men! kung ibang subject, I can welcome distractions hehe).
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| alone...I always got by on my own..hahaha |
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| readings..readings..Finman..Finman.. |
6 hours later, I was interrupted by a whole class of La Salle students (which I presume were all taking StraMa). I watched them panic and go crazy while an old man (I later found out he's the professor) sits comfortably and questions the students one by one about their thesis. I also later found out that he is the best prof in Strama so I hope I will be able to enroll in his class before he retires (Some of my classmates said he's about to retire in 2015). Some of the conversations I heard (haha chismosa ang peg):
Prof: My question is "Will you be able to defend this in your oral compre?" If not, I won't accept your proposal.
Student: Yes sir.
Prof: Is this a new a new strategy? I don't believe it's a new strategy. Try coming up with a new one. You are only targeting a new market segment.
Student: But sir this is a new strategy because currently we don't have this blah blah in our company
Prof: Are you sure it's a strategy? What are the dimensions of a strategy? Kasi if you do this, it's part of marketing. Go to your checkers, show them your strategy and defend to them first before you present it to me. If you were able to convince them that this is a new strategy, I will sign your proposal.
And I overhead a lot of similar conversations between the students and the prof. My goodness! I can see the pressure and the stress in their faces. Imagine, a student holding his thesis proposal (already ring-binded) as thick as the book I'm reading and his proposal is being rejected by the prof. Tsk tsk tsk. At the end of the day, only one thesis proposal was approved.. Lucky student! She literally cried buckets while the prof is signing her paper while her classmates cheered and took pictures of her and her "signed" thesis proposal. I decided not to complain about my FinMan. FinMan is not so bad after all...
I even saw students bringing their own printers and printing inside Starbucks. Pffft and all of them are holding their laptops, discussing among each other and... panicking! Is this a premonition of the things to come? Hay. If this will be the case four terms from now, good luck to me! For now, let me handle FinMan first. Haha! I CAN DO THIS! AJA!
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| students freaking out |
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| busy with their laptops |
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| students printing |
Addendum:
One lesson I learned from our dear professor in FinMan -- "Finance is always moving forward". If you've been in a relationship or whatever you call it for the longest time and suddenly, your special someone decided to call it quits, don't fret. Just consider it as a SUNK COST. Move forward. Wahahaha!
Note to self:
Just because you’re struggling doesn’t mean you’re failing. Every great success requires some type of worthy struggle to get there. :)
