School Update

Next week will be the first of Exams. Econ and Accounting are up on Tues and Wed, respectively.

Accounting is alot of work, but so far so good, with only a little bit of frustration. It's important for me to know this stuff in my chosen path!

Also, special thanks to KV for publishing his notes on the career changing discussion from his resume shop.

Friday, we are headed to Chicago to become Factset trained. Factset is basically financial / company / investment analyst software that supposedly allows us to do our jobs easier. This marks the first meeting of our rest-of-the-year long class, ASAP 101 - which has been called "Investing 101". Mainly there are investment professional speakers, discussions, social gatherings, and team buildings as well as investment analyses to perfom. It's all about starting to form some kind of preference to an investment style. If you're new to my blog - I'm switching careers to become a portfolio manager, somewhere :-)

I feel worried but not overly so in terms of landing that glorious internship. Our alumni network is very strong in this field, and that's one of the main reasons I chose UW (which is around #30 overall in MBA rankings).

In short, there's lots going on, and lots to do, but it's alot of fun.

Next up: Working with the Wisconsin GFO (Graduate Finance Organization) on marketing the "new" finance programs in the MBA program.

(Until 2 years ago, ASAP and ACFIN were Master's in Science, NOT part of the the MBA program - both programs have been around for a while (ASAP - 35 years, ACFIN 6 years), they just changed a little bit for the better)