Finals

The stress of finals are finally bearing down on me and I feel it.. Three exams tomorrow from 10:45-6:45pm.. It will be a long day tomorrow. I am going to have a mad power session tonight.. I know it. Luckily, I got a little bit of a break just now to do some more studying and was reminded, "Life is short, don't kill yourself." I needed that. Just like I needed a "you can do it" and received it last night from a friend. These are all true. I can do it, and I know that I will succeed, but at the same time I shouldn't kill myself studying either. Life is short. There is an equilibrium to everything, it's just a matter of finding it..

Last Thursday of the Semester

Yup. This is it and I finally made it... Well at least almost. Many days of late nights preparing for exams or wrapping up hw due the next day followed by exhaustion and a failing immune system due to the lack of sleep will be over next week. I know that I feel like this at the moment because thatis exactly what I did last night. It's funny how at the beginning of the semester one says that this might be a long one and at the end of the semester one talks about how fast it went by. Did it really go by quick? Or was it long? Everyone has a different opinion. It could be that time really is going by faster than we want it to or it's going the same pace it always has. Maybe we are just looking at it from the wrong perspective just trying to rush through it. This is my third year at Chapman and it feels as if it went by quick. Sometimes we just have to take a second to sit down and smell the roses. Education is a college students life but there are still other values that need appreciation. Life goes by quick. Enjoy the moment.

IS Career?

Does being good at something or having the ability to do something well necessarily mean that you should pursue that as a career? Even though you might not like it with a passion! I feel like that is what makes me wishy/washy when it comes to finalizing my major and its exact focus. I've had the opportunity to try different types of courses and the outcome has always been: I like it, but don't receive an awesome grade or I'm not fascinated with the criteria but I do tend to perform fairly well in the course. In other words, what is stopping me from following a IS career or an accounting career? And why am I pursuing a career in economics? Oh buddy.. Decisions, decisions..

InfoSystems Midterm#4

WOOP-D-WOOP! So I didn't end up doing all too bad on the last midterm. I got a 94 on that exam and a 100 on the first excel assignment. This is great. The excel assignment caught me by surprise because I struggled so much figuring everything out at first Thursday night. I'm a bit of a procrastinator. Can you tell?? But now I just have to focus on the next excel sheet which I'm going to try to finish by Wednesday night, which is probable but unlikely. The reason being might be due to the Real Estate Midterm I have Thursday. I think my bad habit of procrastination comes from my concept of prioritizing. I tend to put much more attention on what is due first and set the rest aside. The problem with that is that the next item on my list of priorities happens to be due either the next day or with a short time frame between the previous prioritized item and the next. Not enough time! I think it's time to change my tactic. We shall see for finals!

Another Week Gone By

Well, the week is over. Mondays through Wednesdays are always power sessions for me. Not until Thursday afternoons is it over for me. I had a midterm which I believed was fair in difficulty level and a macroeconomics exam the same day which I thought was brutal. I am enjoying a sense of relief at the moment and I felt it even more after I submitted my excel hw before I went to work yesterday morning. One more week of the usual routine and then finals. I will take this weekend to vent and relax for a bit because I know that starting next week, it wont be over until I submit my last final exam.

Break and Yesterday's Sobering "Back To School"

It's been a while since the last time I blogged on here. I've gotten lazy and it was because of the Thanksgiving break. That break can be deadly for some, just because it is right before finals and it's an opportunity for anyone to "check out" for the semester. Even though it really is only about half a week long. I enjoyed my Thanksgiving. I didn't go anywhere in particular, but why would you if you are already home. I practically did nothing but enjoyed my time off with my family. Was it worth it? YES! I havnt been that relaxed in a looong time. Now that I came back to school this week, I am trying to play catch up. But it's ok because it forces me to get back in to rythm for finals in about a week and a half.

Yesterday's class session covered Excel Demo #2 and I must say that I didn't know so much was possible with excel. I've taken my accounting classes already and I struggled to even do the most basic assignment on excel. I was doing everything the long way and I must say, I learned many shortcuts that would've been useful for that class. Now it's just a matter of remembering it all. Midterm#4 this Thursday, or tomorrow actually, yikes. But I am glad I've actually made some effort to do some studying ahead of time. Tonight's studying shouldnt be too heavy of a load.. Actually, I just might be up really late due to the fact that today is my younger brothers birthday so that depends on when the family leaves my house tonight. O'well.. I will make that sacrifice for him. Happy Birthday Julian!! I love that kid.

Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence. It reminds me of two of my all-time favorite movies: A.I. by Steven Spielberg and Terminator featuring Arnold Schwarzenegger. It really makes me wonder how soon, and if we are already there, will all the fields of sciences combine to create this one identical human-like robot that will pass as one of us. Artificial intelligence that will be able to walk, talk, think, and feel just like any one of us. Another curiosity of mine is whether the results of creating these products be the same as either one of the movies I mentioned. This topic is always a question of morality..