The first quarter of b-school was kinda awesome. I met a bunch of cool kids, learned a lot more about finance than I thought I was going to, and the material in class was incredibly relevant to the crashing economy and failing banks. We talked about mark-to-market financial accounting the weekend before Lehman Bros tanked! Very cool.
The first two classes I took are both core classes (meaning they’re obligatory): Financial Accounting and Organizational Behaviour.
Next quarter, Winter 2009, I’m going to take Microeconomics with Victor Stango (and a textbook co-authored by Ben Bernanke!), and Statistics with Bill Ellis.