Today was an improvement over yesterday. There was a brief introduction to the computing services on campus and advice on protecting your laptop. (You can register it so that it is marked “stolen” and can not be sold.) They suggested we get and maintain virus protection on our computers and went over some of the university policies concerning copyrighted materials.
We then got a very useful introduction to the thirteen concentrations, and faculty gave guidance on which of the introductory course we should take. Many people tend to overestimate the exposure gained in undergraduate accounting and statistics courses. It was interesting to hear about econometrics and statistics, and organizational behavior which were areas I might never have been inclined to take. The idea was to generate interest and I think the faculty achieved that goal.
A necessary introduction to the course bidding system finished out the afternoon. Of the three hour presentation, I probably understood about 50%. They started talking about bid prices and arbitrage and I was completely lost. I understood that we have to pick a schedule and come up with some sort of value for how much we want that schedule. Then there were some calculated formulas which determine who gets what classes and how many points it costs them. You could see the economists’ eyes light up at the thought of outguessing their classmates and beating the system. I guess this is our first look at capital markets. Welcome to the GSB!
Posted by natasha at September 8, 2004 05:55 AM