Well, we had already stepped up in term one, trying to cope with getting back to the student mode and working on assignments and projects and reports and exams.
Today began Step Up 2. And it is indeed the next level - I had never imagined that I would be so very busy on first day of my term, but here we are with assignments piling up even before the term begins.
First session was that of Entrepreneurial Management, so Rachida was back in action. And as if the current workload wasn't good enough, she gave us an additional one-pager to bring in for Wednesday :-)
After this began the sessions of new subjects in term two. First it was Investment Analysis and then Managerial Accounting. Name of both professors - Luis.
That's right, we now have three professors named Luis :-)
However, all of them have their unique styles and you cannot fail to notice this. Luis S. for Investment Analysis - when he walked in to the classroom and started talking about the subject and about the way this subject will be graded, I could sense that "Don't try to bullshit me" message embedded in all his statements.
In fact it wasn't long when he actually said "During Participation, don't try to impress me, try to add value to your class". When he made one statement, he made sure he supported it by stating all possible known outcomes, the consequences of these outcomes and the one which was appropriate. It's like he was reading minds of the entire class even while he was talking to us, or its just that he has done this so many times, he knows what we think.
I know I may have confused you by my observation. Let me give you a simple example, related to class participation itself. First, he started by stating "Yes, the grading for class participation is subjective", then he gave two examples of class participation in his slides, then he told among those characters in his examples, which ones are above average and which ones below average and why, and then he also told us that there will be a feedback given to us at middle of the term, and that this feedback IS NOT for arguing about it, but FOR us to know how we are doing.
No scope of error, no scope of speculation, no scope for assumptions. Every aspect that one could think of, is addressed.
So, a subject revolving around numbers and a professor like Luis - I think this is going to be an interesting class.
As the first Luis walks out, in comes second Luis - who will be teaching us Managerial Accounting.
While we are still busy in observing him and trying to compare him with Garen, he declares "Good news and Bad news - Managerial Accounting has got nothing to do with Financial Accounting".
Well, that stopped the urge for comparing him with Garen.
Luis had his own way of sending the message across. First he showed us a video to make us sympathize with the state of accountants in general, made jokes about accountants, then told how he himself is an accountant and finally came down to the statement describing his job here at IE "As Managers, you should NEVER trust your accountants. And my job here is to make sure that you ask them right questions every time they bring some numbers in front of you".
Ahah !! So now, we dig deeper :-)
And this game works on two rules.
"NO Computers, NO smart-phones, NO monkey business of looking down at your desk [trying to read/send messages]" First rule of the game.
You will HAVE to do your preparation, solve the practice examples given in the textbook, and be READY to SOLVE any example under discussion ON BOARD when called upon. Second rule of the game.
Given that this subject is also going to be all about numbers, I am already looking forward to it :-)
Spent rest of the day preparing for class of Investment Analysis tomorrow and doing the assignments of other subjects.
And yes, First day of the term and I was in school until 2 AM, when we finally decided to call it a day.
Today began Step Up 2. And it is indeed the next level - I had never imagined that I would be so very busy on first day of my term, but here we are with assignments piling up even before the term begins.
First session was that of Entrepreneurial Management, so Rachida was back in action. And as if the current workload wasn't good enough, she gave us an additional one-pager to bring in for Wednesday :-)
After this began the sessions of new subjects in term two. First it was Investment Analysis and then Managerial Accounting. Name of both professors - Luis.
That's right, we now have three professors named Luis :-)
However, all of them have their unique styles and you cannot fail to notice this. Luis S. for Investment Analysis - when he walked in to the classroom and started talking about the subject and about the way this subject will be graded, I could sense that "Don't try to bullshit me" message embedded in all his statements.
In fact it wasn't long when he actually said "During Participation, don't try to impress me, try to add value to your class". When he made one statement, he made sure he supported it by stating all possible known outcomes, the consequences of these outcomes and the one which was appropriate. It's like he was reading minds of the entire class even while he was talking to us, or its just that he has done this so many times, he knows what we think.
I know I may have confused you by my observation. Let me give you a simple example, related to class participation itself. First, he started by stating "Yes, the grading for class participation is subjective", then he gave two examples of class participation in his slides, then he told among those characters in his examples, which ones are above average and which ones below average and why, and then he also told us that there will be a feedback given to us at middle of the term, and that this feedback IS NOT for arguing about it, but FOR us to know how we are doing.
No scope of error, no scope of speculation, no scope for assumptions. Every aspect that one could think of, is addressed.
So, a subject revolving around numbers and a professor like Luis - I think this is going to be an interesting class.
As the first Luis walks out, in comes second Luis - who will be teaching us Managerial Accounting.
While we are still busy in observing him and trying to compare him with Garen, he declares "Good news and Bad news - Managerial Accounting has got nothing to do with Financial Accounting".
Well, that stopped the urge for comparing him with Garen.
Luis had his own way of sending the message across. First he showed us a video to make us sympathize with the state of accountants in general, made jokes about accountants, then told how he himself is an accountant and finally came down to the statement describing his job here at IE "As Managers, you should NEVER trust your accountants. And my job here is to make sure that you ask them right questions every time they bring some numbers in front of you".
Ahah !! So now, we dig deeper :-)
And this game works on two rules.
"NO Computers, NO smart-phones, NO monkey business of looking down at your desk [trying to read/send messages]" First rule of the game.
You will HAVE to do your preparation, solve the practice examples given in the textbook, and be READY to SOLVE any example under discussion ON BOARD when called upon. Second rule of the game.
Given that this subject is also going to be all about numbers, I am already looking forward to it :-)
Spent rest of the day preparing for class of Investment Analysis tomorrow and doing the assignments of other subjects.
And yes, First day of the term and I was in school until 2 AM, when we finally decided to call it a day.
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