WGL #31 – Not the best of weekends

Well, the truth is there’s not much to say this weekend that isn’t kinda cynical, grumpy, whiny, whatever, so I’m not gonna bother recording anything. If I had to give percentage estimations for whether the full term’s worth of classes would be a “very good” or better experience, right now I’d give numbers like: Strategic Management 70%, Computational Finance 70%, Enterprise Software 45%, R&D Management 5%. Yeah, that’s not a typo. I think most other terms I’d be hovering around the 70% line for most classes because I’m pretty cautious about my optimism at this point in the term.

But not cautious about pessimism. Last class of R&D was that bad. After five terms of being a student in this program, I know what’s going to work and what’s not. And whereas the rational thing to do would have been dropping and fleeing to Data Mining (you may recall that I originally was split on which of the two I should take), I’m not going anywhere. Flag is planted and I’m going to, if anything, be way too good a student for this class. One way to think of it is I refuse to let some confused old hack deprive me of the chance to learn.

Yeah, that’s a bit of manic in my grumpy mix. We’ll see if it lasts. But hopefully next week’s more worth talking about.