Year end wrap up

I'm officially (well... kind of) finished with my MASTER'S program. It just seems too crazy to even type.

I say 'kind of' because I'm really not even finished with my finals yet. I'm just close enough to make this blog post haha. I just turned in my final paper for one class this afternoon. I have a final on Monday morning at 7:30 AM (seriously?) and a take-home final due Monday at 9:30 AM. Siiiick. I've been working on the take-home final on and off since Wednesday... probably about SEVEN HOURS combined so far, and I'm not at all near finished. Like... honestly, is that necessary to make an exam that difficult? I can't even google the answers. Anyway, so Monday at 9:30 AM I'll be finished with all of my work. Then I get to do NOTHING all week (!!!) until Friday which is our MAcc pre-commencement ceremony. I'm not going to the REAL commencement, so I'm considering this my real graduation And it's only going to be like an hour long, HOORAY! They've requested that we wear business formal... I'm not really sure what that is. If they mean business professional, that means wearing a suit... and HELL NO am I wearing a suit at 4:30 PM in the middle of June. No no no. So I bought a cute sleeveless professional-ish dress. Meh.

I'm also excited for the bar crawl on Thursday! Goal = not to still be hungover at 4:30 PM the next day haha. My favorite part about this upcoming bar crawl is that since we're doing it as a group (ALL Fisher grad students), we are having a twitter feed for where we are hahahhaa. Like, omg. Business students WOULD use twitter to update everyone about where we are. Love iiiiitttt.

Anyway, I've been wanting to do this since Jake started doing them ages ago... so yes, I'm completely copying off you, Jake...

here it is, my year in the MAcc program:

Classes taken: 11
Amount I will have paid after interest on my student loans for ONE YEAR of school: $32,000
Times I have cried after taking a test: 3
Times I have cried WHILE taking a test: 3 (2 of which are during my take-home final for the class I mentioned above... sad face. And yes, this means 1 was during an actual exam in a classroom. Embarrassing.)
High school GPA: 4.22
College GPA: 3.72
Grad school GPA: 3.4 (notice a trend?)
MAcc phone numbers in my phone: 21
People I will probably talk to after a year or so: 3
People I will be working with at E&Y: 1
Hours I worked as an ambassador: 300
International interviews performed: 29
Students I took on visits: 15
Amount by which my starting salary for E&Y was decreased: $2,500
Additional amount I was supposed to earn at E&Y for having my Master's: $2,500
Hours spent studying for the CPA exam so far: 263 hours
Sections of the CPA exam taken: 2 (of 4)
Amount paid for the CPA exam: $963 (not counting the $3,000 more I would have had to pay for my review materials if E&Y wasn't amazing)
Weeks I waited for my notice to schedule for the CPA exam: 9
Weeks my classmates waited: 2 (story of my life)
Presentations given: 10
Times I have cursed myself for taking Accounting for Mergers & Acquisitions: Every day of my life since beginning the class
Subway points accumulated: 68
Times I've cursed Taco Bell for being located so close to my apartment: countless
Lunches that turned into drinking at the Varsity Club: 2
Times I've been to Gateway this year: 3 horrible, horrible mistakes.
Lokos I've attempted to choke down: 2
Diet Cokes I've purchased in the Gerlach vending machine: Dear lord. Probably close to 150. Yiiikes.
Times jumping in Mirror Lake: 1
As of this fall, number of people in my immediate family who will have gone to Ohio State: 4. The only 4 that are college-aged. We are kind of sickening.

Others:
Most enjoyable class: governmental/not-for-profit accounting. I liked the subject (this is my second time taking it), I liked the professor, and I liked only having two projects.
Least enjoyable class: Accounting for Mergers & Acquisitions. God-awful. The professor is clearly just there for research. She's just... not good. The exams were horrible. Every class was an hour and 48 minutes of hell.
Worst class I know I'll be glad I took later: Financial Management 2. All sorts of awful things like hedging and derivatives and credit swaps. Ughhhh. This is also the class I took where I cried during an exam. But I also know I'm going to need to know this stuff for my job so... gross.

I'm sick of making this list. 05. 05 has pretty much been my motto for the entire MAcc program, so I guess that's fitting haha.