Wharton MBA for Executives

Random musings, diatribes, and possibly curious insights of a student of the Wharton MBA for Executives (West) program at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

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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 […]

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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…

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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