As i mentioned earlier, I started back in school this summer. For the last 6 weeks I have spent every other Friday and Saturday for 8 hours a day slaving away at an executive business course at UNLV.
All right, I'll be straight... it wasn't exactly slaving away. The classes to my surprise as I expected, were interesting, relevant and I honestly couldn't get enough. It's possible that I annoyed the hell out of my classmates with my incessant questions and comments. But it was that fascinating to me.
The only negative I could find out of the entire experience was that I'm not so 100% sure now about the UNLV hotel school. I get the whole "it's the best hotel school in the country" line of thinking but it's the business classes that I can't get enough of. I could spend years sitting in an accounting class and I think I'd be completely content. (Maybe it's my secret love of numbers and formulas.) Strange as it may seem, I feel exactly the same way about economics. Really! I enjoyed it so much that I went to Barnes and Noble and purchased The Economic Naturalist. I mean, who buys books like that for leisure reading? Apparently, me. I just can't get enough of this stuff. I have found myself watching documentaries on PBS about the cause of the financial crisis. Hello? I have episodes of Grey's that are still DVR'd to watch and I'm watching 2 hour specials on the crash of our financial institutions. I had no idea this stuff was this interesting!
So... today was my final day of the summer courses. I am absolutely positive that I have come out of this experience more intelligent than when I came in but it also opened my eyes to how much I don't know and would like to learn.
They did a little ceremony at the end for us. Everyone was well behaved, polite and did the politician like hand shake as they received their certificate.Not me!
I was excited and proud of myself and I showed it as you can see from the picture. This is me getting my certificate from my super cool, (and ridiculously intelligent) Australian professor Dr. Phelan. Seriously, when he starts talking finance, I feel like I only have a 2nd grade education.
I'll be back to school in the fall!
Now the only decision to make is which major.
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