No sooner do we finish one course when the next begins. This next one — international business — looks like it’ll be a busy one. Every week from now until the middle of September I’ll have to read about 70 pages, post comments on a number of articles, and work on two assignments and a 10,000-word term paper. Yay. Amidst all this fun are plans for Summerlicious, the Film Festival, my birthday and visits from both brothers.

That said, I think I’ll find the course really interesting. They’ve kept the material up to date, so we’re dealing with issues like the effects of globalization, poverty as a cause of terrorism, the effectiveness of the IMF and World Bank, the rise of China and India as world powers, and so on. Interesting stuff, to be sure, but the prof seems very tough and the schedule’s pretty much relentless. But I didn’t sign up ’cause I thought it’d be a cakewalk, and I’m glad to actually have a challenging course again.

I say it’s the front end of a 1-2 punch because immediately following this course I start a course of quantitative methods, which is as fun as it sounds, by all reports. It’s also known as one of the knockout courses; they said that about economics, which was a joke, but the folks I’ve seen at the quants intensive looked pretty frazzled. Anyway, that runs until January after which I have a niiiiiice, eeeeeeeasy IT course for several months which should give me time to deal with moving into the new condo.  If all goes according to plan.

[tags]mba, international business, quantitative methods, impending doom[/tags]