Hello everyone! I just wanted to provide a quick update to how my semester has been going. Currently, I am in the midst of 2 intermediate accounting classes: Financial Accounting 1 and Managerial Accounting 1. These are my first two courses that are specific to my major, and I am really enjoying them so far! Perhaps financial accounting is more interesting, but managerial seems more of a broad topic that is applicable across multiple fields and industries. In addition to those accounting courses, I am also in a General Management course and a literature course on Grimms Fairy Tales. The Grimms Fairy Tales class is definitely interesting, but I do not see psychoanalytic interpretation of any literature, fairy tales or otherwise, in my future. Still, the people that I meet in this class are well...different than the run-of-the-mill business students in my other classes. These different perspectives are refreshing, but I am pretty confident that the Business School was the right choice for me.
In addition to those 4 classes, I am also in a class that is training me to become a Section Leader (a TA essentially) for a class next semester. The class, called Business 101, serves as an introduction for freshmen to the College of Business. The classes touch on topics ranging from professional dress to workplace ethics to creating a business plan. I took the class when I was a freshman, and so I am looking forward to being apart of this experience from the other side of the classroom.
Outside of the classroom, I am working on my 3rd project for Illinois Business Consulting. During this semester's project, I am working on a team (consisting mostly of engineering students) to help a valve manufacturer bring their product to the market in India. The project is a lot of market research and data mining, but so far, I have enjoyed the experience!
And for one last note...here is a link to a video about the PwC case competition (I have a couple of lines in the middle of the video)...just click on the link and then click on the orange play button to view the video.
http://www.pwc.com/us/en/careers/xtreme
Well, I am looking forward to seeing everyone very shortly as I travel back home for Spring Break tomorrow!
Hope all is well,
Daniel
