It’s the first day of classes!
I am terrified and elated and nervous and exited and about a billion other emotions. I feel like I am at the top of a roller coaster that is about to start the downward plummet. Let the spins and whirls begin!
I am taking Financial Accounting (6030) on Monday nights and Management Accounting (6070) on Tuesday nights. Both classes run from 6:30 pm to 9:15 pm, which sad as it may be is my usual bedtime!
Being the lucky duck I am, I work downtown and it won’t take more than 10 minutes to walk to the campus building both classes are in. My boss is also very supportive of the going back to school thing, so the current plan is to work late Monday and Tuesday nights (since I am downtown anyway) and then come in a little late on Tuesday and Wednesday mornings so I can sleep in a little after a late night due to class. That’s the current plan, anyway. I might decide to just keep my schedule how it is and knock off at the usual times on Mondays and Tuesdays and just use the extra hour before class starts to study, we’ll see.
The book for Financial Accounting – Intermediate Accounting – is just as monstrous as Megan has described (and shown). Thankfully I did not have to go to a copy shop and get it rebound in smaller sections like she did because with the new edition the publisher also decided to release a loose bound edition! It is unbound and is already three-hole punched, so I just separated the book into three sections and put them in binders. Ta da!
To decrease the amount of stuff I need to lug around even further, I am experimenting with scanning the book into pdf form so that instead of taking sections of the book to class, I can just take the laptop I would have anyway and pull up the pages of the book as I need them. I have scanned in the first two chapters, and will see how that works for the first class tonight. Scanning in the chapters is not that time consuming (maybe 3 minutes per chapter) so it might turn out to be a worthwhile pursuit.
The Management Accounting book – Malea Fashion District: How Successful Managers Use Financial Information to Grow Organizations – looks really interesting. After reading the introduction it seems to be geared to be easier to read than your usual textbook. We’ll see if I still think that in a couple weeks!
One hour until the first class of my graduate career begins . . .
