Goodbye 141 and 161

today marked the end of my BA 141 journey. i'm glad that it's over because it's one less thing to worry about but i can't help thinking i could have done a lot better in the subject. given that there's actually a set framework for the cases, it would have been easy to ace them had we been given more time to do them. okay, maybe time isn't the factor but timing. it seems like one thing on top of another and it became really hard to focus all energy on just one subject when so many more are begging for your attention.

anyhow, i ended up really enjoying finance since it is a very practical subject and not so computation heavy like accounting. ma'am wong is a great teacher although she can get really scary at times (especially during the exams).

speaking of exams, i calculated that the highest score i could possibly get for the exam earlier is about 84 (optimistic na to ah). the theory part was easy but i had a hard time computing for the net profit/loss when changing credit standards since the problem wasn't phrased as it was in the book. i didn't expect it to be but still...biglang humirap! partial points are a no go, so all i can hope for is the best. 23 or 25 days man ang ACP na yan, i'm pretty sure i still gave it my all. i also royally fucked up in the opportunity cost part of computing reduction in collection float. that entire thing was worth 6 points so i can just kiss those goodbye too. as for the cases part, maaaaan, i think i got a lot of those wrong. this just shows how i left most of the computations to my groupmates, donna, kim, and ilona. i don't think i answered any of the case questions with certainty apart from 1 or 2 which were qualitative. hopefully, my optimistic prediction is right and i do get a score somewhere in the mid-80s :)

161 is also over and done with, thank goodness. major source of stress although i was only ever called once (and was then promptly put "on deck"). hoping for a good grade in this class. mga 1.5 naman sana? haha! they do say sir rivera is all bark in the beginning but doesn't actually give a grade below 2.00. in hindsight, the method is effective for getting us all to read the lessons every damn meeting. it became a law appreciation class after all. but the appreciation doesn't come until much later. i hope i did well in the exams since i doubt he's gonna give it back to us. an optimistic grade is around 1.25 but that's really just wishful thinking.

161 classmates with a 2 36-inch pizzas courtesy of Sir Rivera

now is the time to focus on the remaining subjects, 101, 182, and 114.1. no more orgwork, no more distractions. just pure studying (with some study breaks) from now on. last three weeks of the sem!! leggooooooooo! :-bd