Blogging as a sport

I'm about to start a new blogging experiment: to blog between 3 and 5 times a day for the first week of classes. My previous posts seemed to be more along the lines of a column, as opposed to a true blog. So, I'm going to give all the nitty gritty of my first week of second semester, and all the incorrect grammar and not sexy (but necessary) decisions that week entails.

Of course, I'm already a day late. Yesterday, I had my first day of class -- 8:40 a.m. at the ILR School (School of Industrial and Labor Relations) for a semester-long survey course in HR Management. Professor Brad Bell was down-to-earth and engaging, and the pace of course (read: manageable) will be a nice change from the core over here at Johnson. I was joined by 5 or 6 other Johnson students, as well as study abroad students from Ireland, students from the CIPA program, and some HR folks from various depts. on campus.

Then, I had Operations Management, the next-to-last core course. New professor Vishal Gaur (previously at Harvard and NYU) was engaging and good, I think. Got a good case team, with our first opportunity to choose our own.

Then, SGE (Sustainable Global Enterprise) with Mark Milstein. I decided not to take the SGE immersion after a lot of hemming and hawing, but the class seems great - -another one with folks from all over campus.

Then, lunch and some decisions about what else to take -- Financial Statement Analysis, from what I hear won't be the most useful thing to me, as a non-finance person. So, I decided to go and see what Managerial Spreadsheet Modeling was all about. Seems challenging but like something that is so useful as to be worth it.

So that was day 1. After a meeting about the Cornell Business Journal and how to raise revenues, I was home to my lady for a bit of relaxation --= something I know won't last long, but I'm trying to ease into the semester.

Overall, I'm quite pleased with the ability to choose my own courses finally.

Next post: this morning.