Come on Friday..

or I'll even take Thursday at 4:30!

That means freedom :)

ON A BOAT!

so all I have left is this lovely midterm. Being as though its the class that I least relate with, it's not going to be easy. I thought finance would be a rough one, but after studying for 4.5 days I knew and understood the material forwards and backwards and did extremely well. However-that's all numbers with a clear cut right and wrong. Supply Chain/Ops is a lot of numbers and analytical work, but there are also a lot of concepts to apply and more importantly knowing how explain the answers. I'm pretty worried for what he is going to throw at us at this point.

Pandora is set on Beethoven, so all I can do is buckle down and study and try to know the slides and homework/cases that we've done...

key word being try.

With the exception of class, and a couple workouts...my life is dedicated to Supply Chain until Thursday at 4:30..and then its

FREEEEEDOM on the OPEN OCEAN!

The Race to Spring Break..

Spring Break.

Only 11 days away!

Doesn’t seem like that far, right?!

Well with the amount of work we have due in 11 days, it’s feels nowhere close!

The biggest thing we have is a Supply Chain Test. In 10 days at 3:00 pm.

So while I’d normally be excited about packing and organizing all my outfits for the cruise, I will be focused on Supply Chain.

Also in the next 10 days, we have a Supply Chain Case Study, Brand Management Case Study, Supply Chain Homework, a couple Finance Connect assignments, Brand Management Project Proposal, 2 MarStrat decisions, and for our Technology class project a few worksheets-Porter’s 5 Forces, Value Chain and Industry Map.

Piece of cake right?!

HAHAHA...well all I can say is I can’t wait until March 2! We are leaving at 6am for Charleston to board our ship by noon!

Hoops for Hope

This past Sunday, about 12 MBA students volunteered at the Women’s Basketball game Hoops for Hope event. NCSU took on Wake Forest at 5pm in Reynolds Coliseum with a sold out audience. All proceeds from raffles, apparel and ticket sales went to the Kay Yow Foundation for fighting Breast Cancer.

Our job was to split up into 4 groups at each corner of the floor. Breast cancer survivors lined up in each corner based on the number of years they’ve been in remission, and we organized the group and passed out pink scarves and feather boas to each person. We helped make sure they were able to get on and off the floor safely and quickly. Half time entertainment also included a special performance by NC’s celebrity, Scotty McCreery!

We all wore matching t-shirts that the Dean graciously provided for MBA students. We will be able to wear these t-shirts, designed by our classmate Caroline Chamblee Lewis, to other service/volunteer events we do throughout the year! We were all excited to be able to help out at this amazing event!

The group!

All of the survivors!

This was about as close to Scotty as I could get! TV Cameras blocked my good views!

First Test of 2nd semester!

Well it's that time again.

TEST TIME.

FINANCE to be exact.

We've heard from the 2nd years that Finance tests are VERY long, very detailed and you'll be in your seat working until the last minute of class. Needless to say, I'm a little bit nervous. I typically take longer to test anyways because I second guess myself, but there is no room for that on Wednesday!

We've all learned from our "mistakes" of last semester, and decided it would be a great idea to start studying last week. The first couple days, I was pretty stressed out because finance isn't really my thing. But after studying for a few days, and letting a lot of the information sink in I feel slightly somewhat better. Not confident by all means yet, but we still have 2 full days and that's typically when I do my best studying.

So bring it on Cash Flows, Time Value of Money, NPV, IRR, Payback periods and Capital Budgeting...maybe just not too strong!