Monday, March 19

The Quintessential SMU Experience

It's 11pm on a Monday night, and I'm blogging in the school library to let off some steam.

It has been a mad weekend trying to finish up our Corporate Reporting project. Never have I seen so many people online on my MSN list at 3am on a Monday morning. Everybody (well, those taking Corp Reporting at least) was up trying to put on the finishing touches to the report and Excel spreadsheets that were due this morning at 10am.

I really have to hand it to my Corp Reporting group, especially Bene. He was phenomenal and a real work machine. Bene stayed over every night in school since Thursday to build on the Excel spreadsheet. It's seriously the most work we've done for a 20% project.

That, Ladies and Gentlemen, is part of the SMU experience.

My friends from other universities question why we're putting in so much effort into our projects (almost every module has a group project component) and presentations. What I hear from my friends in NUS and NTU, is that the most people don't really put that much effort into their group projects and presentations, and its OK since everyone is graded on a bell curve, so it evens out when everybody puts about the same amount of effort.

Maybe it's the competitive nature of being in a business oriented school, maybe it's our way of making up for the lack of hall life. No better way to get people to bond than force them to do a project together.

Got a 18% marketing quiz on Thursday, a 10% Income Tax quiz on Friday, 35% Marketing presentation on Island Creamery next Thursday, and a Tax report due on Friday. It's Week 12 people.

All those jokes about our parents renting out our rooms because we're never home, don't seem so funny anymore. =/