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UC Berkeley
Wait, was that four or five beats?
It’s still lots of work.
Well, I’ve just finished up my first week of class at BASE. For those who are unaware, it’s a six week program held by the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley. It’s a pretty intense program where I take three classes and also have some other seminars and similar things.
One of the class I’m taking is in Accounting. The professor is a nice guy that often cracks terrible jokes (as in they are not funny, and therefore are funny because of how unfunny they are). The accounting class itself is pretty difficult. We’re rocketing along at a pretty rapid pace (yay for assets=liabilities+owners equity). Done some stuff with simple spreadsheets (on paper), T-Accounts, Trial Balances, Journal Entries, and other stuff that people who don’t know/don’t care about accounting would probably not be interested in reading.
My second class is Marketing. So far we’ve just been doing a lot of discussion and reading. We’ve done a case study on Euro Disney, and how Disney’s eagerness to have a really successful product probably led to the downfall of the project. Apparently, it’s doing better (but it did change its name to Disneyland Paris in order to try and repair the image). We’ve got a marketing project also, where we need to pick some product and then throughout the course, work on a presentation to market the product. Should be interesting (and a lot of work)
Finally I’ve got my Organizational Behavior class. Now this is probably the most intriguing class of them all. My professor is a Kellogg Alum (or something related to the school) and she’s apparently one of the best lecturers on negotiators. So since OB is a lot of psychology and figuring out people’s mentality, she always brings up a lot of interesting points about how to get people to do what you want. It’s a little creepy. This weeks seminar was about negotiations, and so she was lecturing about it. We learned about good ways to negotiate contracts (it’s not a win lose situation, you want the best for both parties so they will be willing to work together again) and also salary negotiations (know what you’re worth do some research in advance). Again, boring stuff if you don’t have any interest in it, but i figure it will be useful in the future.
(Aside: I’ve developed an addiction to Freecell. It is too much fun! And its not as boring as regular solitaire is. It is also frustrating because you can actually lose.)
Berkeley is a very different place from Northwestern. For one thing, it feels way bigger. I walked from my apartment (Channing, North end of campus) to downtown (Shattuck, South of campus) and it took me about 20 mins. I think it takes either same or a bit more to get to downtown Evanston. So it might be possible that my estimate is wrong. However, one thing I can say with certainty is that Berkeley buildings are much more dense than buildings are at Northwestern
(Aside: Did you know? During the course of writing this entry I watched an episode of How I Met Your Mother, played 2 games of Freecell, and made/ate dinner? Yeah, this writing is taking place over a long period of time.)
I’ll make this into a 2 part entry, since it’s rather long. Look forward to a Part 2!
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