Archive for April, 2009

Supermoto training at Prarie City SVRA

I have no idea how to ride a supermoto. I hang off the inside, stick my knee out, and keep the bike standing up. It feels right but I guess it doesn’t work in the dirt. Plus knee-dragging is so last year.
Brad and I went to Prarie City to learn how to [...]

1/6th done! My second term at UC Davis’ Bay Area Working Professional MBA program

The winter 2009 quarter brought our working group closer together (read: cliquing is on in full force) and further separated us from “The Others” enrolled in the same courses but on the alternate schedule. The Others are just like the mysterious group that live on the island in the TV show Lost. Very [...]

UC Davis MBA course review: MGB203A Statistics with Bill Ellis

MGB 203A: Statistics with Bill Ellis
Date evaluated: Winter 2009 at the Bay Area Working Professional San Ramon campus.
Official course description: Introduces statistics and data analysis for managerial decision-making. Descriptive statistics, principles of data collection, sampling, quality control, statistical inference. Application of data-analytic methods to problems in marketing, finance, accounting, production, operations and public policy.
The real [...]

UC Davis MBA course review: MGB202A Microeconomics with Victor Stango

MGB 202A: Microeconomics with Victor Stango
Date evaluated: Winter 2009 at the Bay Area Working Professional San Ramon campus.
Official course description: Examines the decisions of consumers, business and government, and how these players interact. This course covers a variety of topics in economics, including supply and demand, efficiency, pricing and game theory. We will also cover [...]