What Greg Learned #10

Historic snowfall? Boring professors? It must be time again for What Greg Learned. This one’s relatively short, because the more I think about classes, the more I get stressed with the sheer amount of stuff due in two weeks. The whole thing’s after the break.

What Greg Learned #9

Greetings, listeners, and hop onto the Greg Train for another What Greg Learned. Make sure you have your ticket ready to show for the conductor, and remember that the first car of this train is the quiet car. Loud conversations, electronic devices, and noisy breathing are prohibited. Our station stops for this trip include a rant about grading, a movie review, and a hypothetical scenario where Brewster’s Millions only involves a hundred dollars and takes place entirely in a Starbucks. All this and more after the break!

What Greg Learned #8 – SUPER BONUS size

Yes, in a special premium-sized edition of What Greg Learned we visit another time zone, get made fun of by an accounting professor, have a hell of a good stew, and even do a bit of singing. It’s crazy! Transcript after the break.

A lot left to record

Thanks to events that will be recounted in the next, super-epic What Greg Learned #7, I’m still on the extremely-sleepy side, and spent a lot of yesterday in a semi-vegetative state. Which sucks, since there’s a ton to write and a good story that’s probably fading fast in memory.

Short summary: my “class week” last week was a full 6 days long, not the normal two. In the middle of it, there was a point where I figured I had gotten about 6 hours of sleep total over the course of about two and a half days, and even my accounting professor was cracking jokes at my expense.

When an accountant makes a joke, you wake up. It worked.

Anyway, I don’t know if it’ll happen before this weekend, but stay tuned for the grand tale of my entrepreneurial dream, crushing defeat, my brushoff at the hands of Kayak’s Vice President of Technology, my struggle with Gollum over the fiery pits of Mt. Doom, and a long weird denouement that may have been Aragorn’s wedding but also may have been a discussion on the merits of including options analysis in opportunity valuation of high-risk ventures.

It’s been that kind of week.

What Greg Learned #8: SNOW DAY

With an expected 12-20 inches of snow, the program office decided it would be a good idea to let folks get the heck outta Dodge, except we’re not in Dodge. So I had my Accounting and Organizational Behavior classes yesterday, but today’s classes in Operations and (though not called it explicitly) Entrepreneurship are gone. The plan sounds like it will be to make up the time via syllabus adjustments, not extra class sessions… at least for the ops class.

Lots of spare time today then!

What Greg Learned #7 – 12/5

Aaaaand… we’re back! I review last term and preview this term. I even throw in an accountant joke that’s not in the script. It’s chaos! Full transcript after the break.

WGL term 2 starts soon!

It’s been quiet here lately, because I had my finals for term 1 a few weeks ago. Term 2 starts today; I’ll try to figure out some way to do a retrospective wrap-up of my term 1 classes (I’d like to do so knowing my grades for them, so it may be a bit). This term: Accounting, Organizational Behavior and Design, Operations Management, and Management of Technology.

Oddly, that’s four core business classes; we spend all of both days in the business school, which is also where I -work- all the rest of the time. Which on one hand is kind of a bummer, but on the other hand the chairs in the Engineering school are kinda shoddy. Also weird is I’ve previously met three of my four professors.

Anyway, better finish getting ready to head in.

What Greg Learned #6

This is a bit of a weird one… for one, I’m having some technical problems uploading sound, but didn’t really record anything of much interest anyway, so this is a text-only post. It’s also fairly long because it’s actually my final paper from Leadership class – a statement of how I got to be who I am, who my influences are, what my strengths and weaknesses are, and where I could see myself going… including my own creative take on communicating one vision for my life, say, 15 years from now. Next week come finals for the first term, and a few weeks later, after Thanksgiving, I’m into term two.

Anyway, the full giant text is after the break.

What Greg Learned #5

Hey, it’s a week after class #5. I blame daylight savings time, though really video games may be more to blame. Either way, prepare for a scary journey down the brainstem of Greg as I examine my own strengths and weaknesses for leadership class. Transcript’s after the jump.

Not really a direct school thing.

Yes, WGL #5 is, uh, on the to-do list. I was rescued from Marketing class (sorry, pulled out of Marketing Class) by some frenzied emails/texts regarding the status of a video that I produced for an event in Abu Dhabi.

And I only mention that in order to establish a connection that gives me an excuse to link to my promotional video for the Wharton Business Plan Competition. I think it came out pretty slick.