Classes

Now that I have a week of classes under my belt I can talk a little more freely about it. The classes are just giant lectures most of the tutorials starts in weeks 2 and 3 so I'm still waiting to attend those. I'm more interested to see how the tutorials are and assignments. I'm slightly worried about the assignments I don't exactly know what they want. I'm hoping my professors will give us more detail on what they like, but I have a feeling that won't be happening. I'm going to give it my best shot and I still have to buy 3 more books, which is depleting my funds unfortunately.

I did have this mishap with my Corporate Finance class. Supposedly their corporate finance class and ours are different. The one here is like our Managerial Finance course or FIRE 371 for you SCSU people and Advanced Corporate Finance is the same as our Corporate Finance. I had to find a new class and go to the International Office and talk to the study abroad people to show to them that I have already taken the class. Once she agreed I was able to sign up for a different class nothing that I was really interested, because there was another prerequisite that she didn't know if I met or not. I ended up getting into International Finance, which is fine I'll live. I was worried at first, because the tutorials that were available overlapped a lecture I had earlier in the day, so I sent an e-mail to the professor asking if I could squeeze into a later one. He replied with a no and that I should keep my eye open for spots that may emerge. Well, that sucks is pretty much what I was thinking and I looked for a new class to take that would fit my schedule better. I found Sustainable Investing and this was the class I was referring to earlier that I needed another class as a prerequisite. The lady didn't know and told me to e-mail the professor of the class with the description of the class I had taken at SCSU and see if it was suitable. To sum it up the professor never e-mailed me back and luckily a tutorial opened up for my International Finance class. Even thought one spot did open up it now overlapped the tutorial to a different class; I took the tutorial anyway and was able to move the tutorial of my other class to an earlier time and now my schedule is complete. What does suck though is that I've missed the first lecture for my new class, we'll see how that goes. All in all it was a headache of epic proportions, thankfully it is over and I can finally focus on school.

Now on to my normal life here or what is left of it. Our whole floor went to the movie Unkown in Southbank last night and it was actually pretty good. Tonight I think we are all going to The Vic, but we'll see one of the guys talked about going to this backpackers bar, maybe I'll end up there. I don't have classes tomorrow, so I'll spend the day buying my last few books and doing some homework that has been assigned to me. Cheers!