It's been a 'last few days of the semester' to remember. Since deplaning on Wednesday, a whirlwind for sure. I studied hard for Valuation and I think that paid off Thursday morning. Immediately following Valuation I went to a team meeting to try to wrap a strategy term paper, then to Kresge 4 for a throw down at the ACC corral. I think I must have hit the wall because after the first mini-case was complete I went into total brain lock. The second case might as well have been in Russian, so I stopped, went home, had dinner, worked on papers, and didn't think about accounting. When I returned to Kresge 4 this morning... BLAM. Knocked it right out. Then, because it's habit forming, I went back to work on papers. The big one was done around 2:30, leaving time for laundry and a preliminary round of packing. The second paper is still flying around the virtual world collecting edits ahead of its midnight submittal.
Oh yeah, career news too, confirming what I had suspected: Tuesday went well. I feel like I've paid the piper and then some for missing two days this week, but a mid afternoon phone call made it all OK. I've been thinking today about the efficiency of the job market for MBAs. Efficient market theory says that if everyone has symmetric information they'll value things the same. Lots of MBAs think this is not the case, but I have three letters from three very different consumers which indicate that symmetric information is available and the markets are efficient.
Friday, February 23, 2007