Example of why I suck at school

This is one (of several) reasons why I am currently NOT doing so well in grad school:

"Barnes & Noble purchases CDs from record companies and they can't be returned. They purchased 18,000 copies of K-Fed's album 'Playing With Fire' for $11. The retail price was $16. Almost 13,000 CDs did not sell. Barnes & Noble would need to sell the remaining CDs for about $9 to break even overall. True or false?"

Now, ignoring the fact that this is actually probably the easiest problem I've encountered in grad school thus far... SERIOUSLY? You expect me to FOCUS when I'm given problems about K-Fed not selling albums?!?! Omg. Ridiculous.

Another example:
"On 4/10/09 my son was home from school and cleaned out his room for once. He found a $25 gift certificate I had purchased forh im as a birthday gift on 6/13/07 from AMC Theaters. The gift certificate expired 12 months from the day of purchase. What is the accounting treatment on 6/13/07, FYE 12/31/07, and 6/13/08?"

Okay. All I'm thinking is, "omg, what an ungrateful child. He just made you waste $25. It's not like he DIDNT go to the movies during that year... he clearly just forgot you bought it for him. That's so sad." Like... am I thinking, "hmm, this is probably unearned revenue for the first 12 months..."? No. No I am not. I am thinking about Dave Williams' ungrateful son.

In other news, in a completely unrelated class (tax) I got my first ever zero. On a quiz I legitimately studied for. And it's worth 5% of my grade.

Ohhhh grad school.

aw.

Today I got a completely random but really nice compliment. I was at work, helping another ambassador with a visit. Two students and two professors from a small school in Iowa came to find out more about our program. I was part of a student panel, and then I went to lunch with them. After lunch, we all went back to our building and the other ambassador took the two students on a tour of the building. Meanwhile, I was chatting with one of the professors. During the panel, I had mentioned that I was going into auditing. While we were talking, the professor just goes (out of nowhere) "You are going to make a really great auditor; I can just tell." And I was so taken aback. I literally said, "Um... what?! Why!?" Haha great, how professional. And he said, so sincerely, "I was an auditor for 15 years before becoming a professor. So much of that job is personality. You have the personality for it. Your communication skills are great, and you just seem really personable." I was like, so blown away. I don't even KNOW this guy. I had literally only spoken to him directly during the panel... we were at opposite ends of the table during lunch. I just that was so, so incredibly nice. Hooray for random acts of kindness :)

All Natural Cheetos

I just got back from the grocery store where I purchased All Natural White Cheddar Cheetos.



They are delicious. Of course, the fact that they're all natural means I can eat like, the whole bag at once and still be okay, right?

Oh, sex boy.

I finally spoke to sex boy in person today. This was the first time that's happened. I've knocked on his door a few times, and no one's answered... although the last time I knocked, his FRIEND answered and was super nice about the loud music emitting from my floor/his ceiling. I've even written a note. Today, however, when I went to knock... he answered! He didn't even say a single word. It went like this:

[i knock on door]
[he opens it]
me: HI! could you please turn down the bass a little bit?
him: [grunt]
me: THANKS!
[i run away]

So... I mean, he turned it down, but my floor is still vibrating a bit. I really just think we have a horribly thin shared wall. It's not really fair to either of us. I should be allowed to sit in my couch without it vibrating, and he should be able to turn up his music. Vom.

Cat lady that lived across from me moved out today. It made me slightly sad. She was SO QUIET. I NEVER heard her, even though we share one huge wall. It also just makes me nervous because what if another sex boy moves in? Fingers crossed it is an old lady or something. Or, better yet... someone my age exactly like me. HOORAY!

I have done NOTHING with my life in the past 2 days. After I got home last night from the gym (around 7), I did NOTHING. I didn't have any homework! AMAZING. Then today my tax class was canceled, which meant I didn't have to be on campus until 1:30 for my other class (as opposed to 10:30 for tax). So I drive to campus... get there around 1:05... and I wait until 1:24 for a bus that supposedly comes every 7 minutes. And of course at this point I was going to be AT LEAST 15 minutes late for class. And of COURSE this is the professor that said on the first day of class not to even bother coming to class if you're going to be late. Great. Great.

So I texted a girl in the class, and she, too, thought it best that I not show up 15 minutes late. She promised to give me her notes, so I guess that's good. I HATE missing class. This is my first time missing a MAcc class, too... sad day.

Yeah, so I literally haven't done a THING all day. Unless you count hanging up pictures and watching hours of Roseanne and Say Yes to the Dress "doing something." And like... I don't have any homework for tomorrow, either. This is a fluke week or something, I don't know. Like, I KNOW of stuff coming up, but my professors haven't discussed the assignments yet, so I can't start them. Oh, crazy grad school.

I hate being a waste of space. I don't know what to dooooo. I cleaned a little bit... stretched some... I don't know. There's not much to do alone haha.

I'm 90% sure the bass just got louder again. Ohhh how I am going to call the office tomorrow.

Life lately.

I have been really bad about updating this. It might have something to do with the ridiculous amount of work I've had to do lately.

School has been really hard, and a lot of work. I wish it were one or the other... either really hard, but not a ton of work... or a TON of work, but all busy work. But it turns out I signed up for GRAD school, which does not entail anything being easy.

Um, let's see. Short summary: my classes are super hard, I don't like any of my classes really although I love the professors, making friends has not gotten any easier and I am close to giving up, Donny came to visit and it was SUPERB and I miss him a ton already, I went to UNC to visit Kiley last weekend and it was AMAZING and made me realize how I definitely DONT have friends at school because none of them even begin to compare to my frooms, I haven't cleaned up my apartment in over a week, I have a B- average in school right now (I have to have a B average to 1) maintain my GA award and 2) stay in the program), aaaand thats about it.

Phew. So anyway, what's new? Um... well, we had a meeting at lunch today about what electives we can take in the upcoming quarter. What I LOOOOVE about my program is that I only have one required class per quarter, and I can fill the rest of my time with electives. So some professors gave brief descriptions of their classes today. There are like, infinity tax classes offered. I'm in one now (corporate tax), and it's the worst class in the world. We don't have ANY outside work, but it's still ridiculously hard. I would rather eat strawberries and bananas TOGETHER than take another tax class. Sorry, MAcc program. But I think I'm going to (TRY TO) take audit (yaaaaay), fraud examination, the required class which is basically talking about why accounting exists (except 10 times harder than it sounds), and maybe a class on leadership or something. Too many accounting classes will make my life suck so I need at least one non-accounting class.

Anyway. Um... yeah, pretty much school has taken over my life so I don't have anything else to talk about haha.

PS Who wants to hang out this weekend??