OMG

Just when I thought the month of April could not possibly get any worse, they posted the assignment due dates for Financial Management.  We have a mini case due on April 21 and another on May 5 (and there are others in May and June).

Now it is time to reflect on what I have done and need to get done.

First, I could send in my two-page proposal for my Individual Paper.  It is written.  I could maybe word smith it a bit more.  But if I really needed to get something off my plate, it could be the first thing gone.  It is due April 6th.  It's OK to hand it in early.

Next, I need to get a handle on Optimization (part of the stats course).  I forgot my folder at home so I was kind of working on it blindly and the Solver function kept saying something like "cell set values do not converge".  That is not a good sign.  And the fact that it wouldn't let me select the reports that come out of the Solver function kind of sealed it for me.  That will be the focus of my work tonight, when I am at home with my notes.  I am the second on the assignment, so I better know what I am doing.  I sure hope my notes were good.  My draft is due March 31st; the assignment is due April 8th.

My negotiations paper is chugging along.  I am working through the various templates in the text book (from Essentials of Negotiation).  Some of the work is drawing out repetitive answers.  I am finding it a bit challenging because the templates are forward thinking, not retrospective.  I am thrilled that I found someone to edit my assignment, though.  I think it will be the best $10/page I have ever spent.  Due date:  to the editor: March 31st; to school: April 5th.

I am on my way to becoming an expert on Strategy Maps and Scorecarding.  My sub-team member and I are meeting at school tomorrow at 1pm to work on it.  I was grateful to be on this sub-team because I wanted to learn more about it - outside of the HR perspective that I originally used for scorecard.  It is a lot of work, though.  I will work on that this afternoon.  The assignment is only due on April 22nd, but the lead on it wants it done by March 31st.  (I guess he thought April looked rather ominous, too.)

Then I have my individual assignment for Managerial Accounting.  It is due April 29th.  Part of my work tomorrow night is to read the relevant information on revenue forecasting in the text book and formulate questions for the guy at work that I'll be meeting with next week.  I will be happy if I have 5 questions for him.  Hopefully I can come up with a couple more.

Lastly, there is this little Stats exam coming up on April 17th.  It's worth 40% of my mark and passing the exam is a requirement for passing the course.  I will be spending most of my evenings this coming week preparing questions for the tutorial which is taking place on Thursday.  I think the reason many people are disappointed with the tutorials is that they haven't shown up with comprehensive questions for Jeff to answer.  I am just as guilty.  On the other hand, Jeff didn't have anything planned, either.  It isn't like when we would go to our 810 or 811 tutorials and John would essentially coach us on how to approach studying for the exam.

Well, it is nearly 1pm and I am hungry.  Off to get some lunch!