Matrices and Apartments

This has been an interesting week, even though it's on Tuesday. I submitted the applications for an apartment complex next semester. One of my biggest requirements for the apartments was that it needed to be AT LEAST two bedrooms because I wanted to have an office/guest room for visitors. My whole life, I've had my bedroom as my bedroom-office-living room-(Somestimes)dining room. I'm tired of that and ready to be an "adult."

As far as my math progression, it's slowed up just a little bit, bu that's because I'm on Chapter 4: Matrices. It's been a while since I've really worked with matrices, so I'm trying to shake off some of the rust. I haven't watched any updates on my MIT Calculus, but that's becasue work has been a little busier than usual.

For my Stategic Management class, I've decided to do a strategic audit over Barnes & Noble. I originally started off with Subway, but they aren't publicly traded, so that makes it a little more difficult. So far, the company seems pretty interesting. I never realized the size of the store and all their business sectors. Should be fun!

Day 1 with Alpha Chiang

Yesterday I received 3 packages in the mail. Two of them I was very happy to see, but 1 of them was not too high on my excitement list. I received the second controller and TV adapter cord for my "new" super nintendo. The third package was Fundamental Methods of Mathematical Economics by Alpha C. Chiang. This book is so highly regarded in the PhD world of economics, that is simply referred to as "The Chiang Book." It's crazy how many times I've been asked if I've started working out of the Chiange book. So Chapters 1 & 2 weren't bad, especially since Chapter 1 was just 4 pages long! The only downside is that the text only gives selected answers to the problems, so now I'm on the hunt for a solutions manual.

I've also completed Lesson 18 today for MIT OpenCourseWare Single Variable Calculus. We talked about Definite Integrals today, nothing too fancy, yet. I'm crusing through this, and looking forward to moving onto Multi-variate calculs, followed by Linear Algebra. Why am I doing this to myself again? Oh yea, I want to teach.

I also got a letter today about orientation, and it's a week long event. I think that's one of the few things I'm looking forward to this summer. It also mentioned two other textbooks I should start reviewing. Oh, did I mentioned I still have a class left in my MBA program. Fun stuff.

Calculus and more Calculus

So it's been a while (4 months or so), but I finished my last full semester of the MBA program, and I'm one 10-week summer course away from having a 4.0 for the grad program. Prrrrrety exciting. I'm watching a calculus video on Differentials and antiderivatives, fun right? I'm spending this summer getting better at calculus so that when the fall starts, I won't be the worst student in my cohort. That would be bad.

In a few weeks, I'm going to order my graduation stuff so that I can start working on sending out graduation announcements before I leave. I'm trying to decide if I want to make my return address in Washington, just in case some people sent me money. I'm not sure yet. We'll see.

Checking in on 2009-2010 Goals

So from the last post, these are my goals

Score a 1400 on the GRE
Be accepted into 5 MS Econ Programs
Restart the MBA Association at SHSU
Graduate with a 4.0
Finish the SHSU MBA Program within 1 calendar year
Have Golden Key win the Sammy for Outstanding Academic Organization
Win another Individual Sammy award
Finish personal research

I'm not going to lie, I set a REALLY high bar for myself, and looking back on it, I feel kinda like I may have been entering senility early.

To start, I only scored a 1290 on the GRE, which is low, but pretty close to my goal. I busted my butt on the math, and sort of left the verbal behind.

I have been accepted into 1 PhD program so far, but I won't know about any of the rest until next month. I would say 1 PhD program is worth about 3 MS programs, so I'm half way there.

I have not been able to restart the MBA Association at Sam, but I have been named to another committee on campus, and that one requires A LOT of time!

The rest are all on track. So we'll see how the year ends.

More importantly though, I got engaged over the break, and that was a great accomplish that I hadn't planned on in the beginning of this year. So kudos to me!



And you can watch the video here:

My Proposal on YouTube

Goals for 2009-2010

So, I actually achieved all the goals I could have imagined last year. I didn't really have a firm set, but I knew part of the way through the year what I wanted to achieve. I achieved all of the following:

✔Graduate Summa Cum Laude
✔Have over a 3.90 GPA
✔Outstanding Senior Award in Management
✔Outstanding Senior Award in Economics
✔Excellence in Service Award for COBA
✔Sammy Award for Outstanding overall student

For the upcoming year, it will be hard to top those. This past year was perfect.

• Score a 1400 on the GRE
  
• Be accepted into 5 MS Econ Programs
  
• Restart the MBA Association at SHSU
  
• Graduate with a 4.0
  
• Finish the SHSU MBA Program within 1 calendar year
  
• Have Golden Key win the Sammy for Outstanding Academic Organization
  
• Win another Individual Sammy award
  
• Finish personal research
  

I think those are achievable. We'll see how it turns out.