Wharton MBA for Executives

Random musings, diatribes, and possibly curious insights of former students of the Wharton MBA for Executives (San Francisco) program at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Wharton MBA for Executives header image 4

One final done. One more to go. Last Accounting Lecture.

August 15th, 2008 by RVD · 2 Comments

MGEC final is over!  I took the final the morning.
Tomorrow is the Accounting final.  Everyone is definitely a lot more worried about that one.  I’ve been here on this blog mentioning the difficulty of accounting since midterm 1 and I mentioned a lot more after midterm 2.  I wasn’t quite sure if other students were […]

(posted by RVD)

Bookmark this article!

FacebookDiggDel.icio.usTechnoratiSlashDotYahooGoogleRedditSquidoo

[Read more →]

Tags: Term 1

Prediction: I’m gonna LT midterm #2

July 19th, 2008 by RVD · No Comments

It looks like the mean was 100.3 and LT cutoff is around 83.  I haven’t gotten my results yet but I predict that I LT’d this one.  I just really blanked out on this midterm.  We’ll find out soon…

(posted by RVD)

Bookmark this article!

FacebookDiggDel.icio.usTechnoratiSlashDotYahooGoogleRedditSquidoo

[Read more →]

Tags: Term 1

Another session…another midterm.

July 10th, 2008 by RVD · No Comments

Maybe it seems like we just had an accounting midterm because…we just had an accounting midterm.  I barely got done studying for the midterm last month but is true, it’s true…we have another accounting midterm next week.

Next week is our first 3 day session.  The 2 day sessions are pretty tiring and by Saturday afternoon […]

(posted by RVD)

Bookmark this article!

FacebookDiggDel.icio.usTechnoratiSlashDotYahooGoogleRedditSquidoo

[Read more →]

Tags: Term 1

4th of July Weekend

July 6th, 2008 by RVD · No Comments

We just concluded session #4!  I think most of us in the class have gotten the hang of things now.  I still look forward to class weekends (hopefully that won’t change).  At least for me, I’ve realized a few things:
1) There is always going to be more econ/accounting problems to do, econ/accounting textbook chapters to […]

(posted by RVD)

Bookmark this article!

FacebookDiggDel.icio.usTechnoratiSlashDotYahooGoogleRedditSquidoo

[Read more →]

Tags: Term 1

First Midterms!

June 19th, 2008 by RVD · No Comments

Wow, isn’t this exciting? NOT!!! Our first midterm is tomorrow! Wait…our second midterm is tomorrow too! Oh stop the presses…our paper is due tomorrow Monday (thanks JPM!)
I haven’t taken a midterm since 1996. I did try to spend as much time as I could preparing for this midterm. In […]

(posted by RVD)

Bookmark this article!

FacebookDiggDel.icio.usTechnoratiSlashDotYahooGoogleRedditSquidoo

[Read more →]

Tags: Term 1

Day 1 of class is now officially over!

May 20th, 2008 by RVD · 1 Comment

We had our first day of “real” class day today. I actually got up early enough and went to math camp this morning (hopefully I will be able to get up tomorrow). Professor Jack Siler was excellent. He really taught the math fundamentals first and refreshed my memory on concepts such as […]

(posted by RVD)

Bookmark this article!

FacebookDiggDel.icio.usTechnoratiSlashDotYahooGoogleRedditSquidoo

[Read more →]

Tags: Term 1