Milestones

The past hour I spent looking at the classes I have taken thus far in school and the classes I will take in my last quarter at business school.  To my surprise, I have taken 88 units of classes, including the ones I am in now.  Looking over the names of the classes, and remembering a project or two from each, I realize that this was an incredible amount of work.  My grades show that I have done well.

What's surprising is that this work has actually paid off.  According to my initial calculations, I will only need to take 8 units of classes next quarter.  I am kicking myself for not having spaced out the work more appropriately.  It often feels that we are just running from one project to the next, never actually finishing this horrible rat race we are paying so dearly for with our time and freedom.  Apparently we have actually gotten somewhere.

Should I be upset with the fact that I have not paced myself so as to take advantage of some of the other things business school has offered?  I am not sure.  Part of me is upset for having missed out on taking advantage of certain opportunities, although I am not exactly sure what those were.  I also know that I found a certain degree of peace within the work.  It was cathartic to push so hard, endlessly toward something.  It is one way of fixing that feeling of floating around in life.  If anything, I am upset that my pursuit of work conflicted with my pursuit of excellence.  I believe that I should try to correct that with the remaining time I have left at school.  

Degree Requirements
Year	Quarter	Course Type	Number	Title				Units	Grade
2012	Orientation	Core	414A	Leadership Foundations				2	S
2012	Fall	Core	402	Data and Decisions				4	A-
2012	Fall	Core	403	Financial Accounting				4	A-
2012	Fall	Core	405	Managerial Economics				4	A+
2012	Fall	Core	408	Foundations of Finance				4	B+
2012	Fall	Core	421A	Communication Development for Leaders I				2	A-
2013	Winter	Core	410	Operations Technology Management				4	A-
2013	Winter	Core	411	Marketing Management				4	A
2013	Winter	Core	420	Business Strategy				4	B+
2013	Winter	Core	421B	Communication Development for Leaders II				2	A-
2013	Spring	Elective	263A	Consumer Behavior				4	A+
2013	Spring	Elective	266A	New Product Development				4	A
2013	Spring	Elective	407	Business Analytics with Spreadsheets				4	A
2013	Spring	Core	409	Organizational Behavior				4	A
2013	Spring	Elective	454	Fieldwork in Organizations				4A	S
2013	Fall	Elective	231E	Managing Finance and Financing Emergining Enterprises				4	B
2013	Fall	Elective	261A	Sales and Channel Management				4	A
2013	Fall	Elective	267	One to One Marketing				4	A
2013	Fall	Elective	279A	Cases in Real Estate Investments				4	B+
2013	Summer	Core	454	Internship at FIJI				4A	S
2014	Winter	Elective	220	Corporate Financial Reporting				4
2014	Winter	Elective	260A	Customer Assessment and Analytics				4
2014	Winter	Elective	297B	International Business Strategy				4
2014	Winter	Core	444A	Introduction to AMR				2
2014	Winter	Core	444B	Applied Management Research				4
2014	Winter	Elective	C156	Topics in Political Philosophy				4
				Units Have				88
				Units Needed				8