Three down, one to go

Market Analysis exam over. Just Operations Management tomorrow, then it’s a clear run to the end of Term 1′s work with an Economics assignment. What fun.

Next term’s working out okay, too, even though I’m doing an ill-advised third elective (increases workload, but it was the only way to get the mix of modules I wanted, half hard quant and half softer strategic stuff.) I must be the only person deliberately doing the stuff I’m no good at – my two big weaknesses in business are finance and strategy; I’ve always been a seat-of-the-pants creative type whose financial projections tend to be back-of-envelope, best-guess stuff. (Actually, I think that’s how professional financiers work as well; it’s just that they don’t admit it.)

The good thing is, next term all my lectures are in the mornings – four days a week, I have nothing scheduled after 12.30, except for Tuesdays when lectures go on into the evening (doing a language is compulsory on the Warwick MBA, so Tuesday evenings will be filled with the sounds of France.) Three elective modules, two core modules, the POM personal development module, and a language: it may be only seven scheduled sessions a week, but each is of three and a half hours, and with teamwork and projects outside the lecture hall I’ve a feeling it’ll be no less busy than this term.

But at least with lectures over with by 12.30 most days, I have the whole afternoon to use. (With free mornings, it’s all too easy to use them to catch up on sleep.) If I race to the pool at 12.30, I can grab a hot lunch at 1.30 before University House cafe closes, then have a straight run from 2pm to late. And with Corporate Finance and Management Accounting on my list, I’m going to need it…