This semester is really getting crazy now, group projects, essays, midterms, homework, mock interviews, job training, snowboarding and social life are all keeping me very busy. On the bright side I can't say my life is boring.
Classes
- Real Estate Development - very fun, no textbook, no tests, killer group projects and insanely educational. Right now we are working on an apartment complex acquisition seeing if it could be profitable and how much we could theoretically make on the deal. The class is very financially oriented and touches on a lot of the due diligence aspects and the creative options we have in real estate.
- Macro Econ - The class lectures are fun, but I'm not looking forward to the midterm this weekend, I've heard it's a killer. There are only three questions so it'll be kind of like The Mouse who Roared.
- Micro Econ - The lectures are death on a stick, I copy down all the math that our teacher puts up on the board and hope to make sense out of it later. The midterm I took last weekend for the class didn't seem too bad, but of course that's probably because I haven't gotten my score back yet.
- Management Communications (business english on steroids) - Class is all right, the essays are a pain, especially because I still haven't gotten any back yet so I don't know how to improve yet. Today we had mock interviews so that made sure my day would be a tad more stressful than usual, but I don't think I did too bad.
- Entrepreneur lecture series - It's pretty fun but the assignments are small and I often for get about them till the last minute so they become, not hard to do but hard to keep track of.
- Career Preparation - Same problem with the assignment as the lecture series class except the lectures really are boring.
- Mentor Program - "What? Oh man! I almost forgot I was signed up for that class." We never have class, there is an assignment to do once a month and I have to meet with my mentor periodically to talk to him and find out more about the industry he works in. My mentor is Jim Hill, he graduated in econ, got a MBA and works with East West Partners doing real estate development projects in Park City, Utah for the ski resorts.
- New Testament - It isn't really not bad, I just have to keep up with the reading in the scriptures and the manual. The midterm was small potatoes, and the teacher does a good job teaching, he is a bit dry but he makes an effort at being funny and the effort is funnier than his humor.
Job
- Cody, Travis, and I will be working in Fairbanks, Ak from April 25 to August 25.
- Two weeks ago we had an all day training session to start things off and since then we have one on one trainings with our trainers and the busses at 7 Peaks parking lot.
- By this week I will need to have gotten my CDL permit so I can continue the training. That translates into another test I need to study for and take.
- The bus training is pretty fun, I learned to parallel park a bus, no small feat, and I have learned all about the pre-trip inspection I will have to be doing every day this summer, (note to self, test not that tomorrow, do some more study).
Snowboarding
- Every time I think of something that might be fun to do with my time, I compare it to snowboarding. The slopes somehow always win my mental debate.
- It is pretty time consuming and rewarding. I have lots of fun and am a lot better.
- I don't think I'll be able to do it next year because classes are really ramping up and then there is that other desire of getting married that becomes more and more prominent as my college transcript's credit hours keep rising.
Girls
- Oh Yea! Girls! I almost for got about them, it seems like my plate isn't big enough. As I keep piling things on top stuff keeps falling off the sides.
- I have gone on a couple of dates recently but I'm not nearly as good about going on dates as I was last semester.
- I definitely need to turn this around.
Well, I hope I haven't bored my audience. Since my M comm teacher says I always need to know my audience I have included some picture below and a video I made of Cody, myself and friends snowboarding. Look in the still photos to recognize our faces so you can tell who we are when we are in the air and can't see our faces. All of the footage is a few weeks old so we don't really land many if any of our jumps yet. I put the video to come cool music so turn your speakers on as well.
On a date we went to the nickel-kade and we got these
fake mustaches so we had to take picture afterward.
Cody, Travis and I gouged our selves on tacos at
Del Taco on taco night tuesday.
David: 18, Cody: 21, Travis: 30
I finally took the time to learn how to use my
mac's video editing software now that I had some
footage to edit. It wasn't hard at all to learn and it's fun.
