Sick Week

As you can tell from the title of this post, I was a bit under the weather last week. However, I am fortunate because this is the first bad cold I’ve gotten all year. But this may be the worst time to be sick!

Monday –The day started with finance where we talked about derivatives. After class, I went straight home to read the strategy case for the write up due on Thursday. I also completed the case memo for Operations due on Wednesday. Finally, I did some research for the professor that I work for.

Tuesday – In supply chain, we talked about off-shoring and how it is getting more expensive. This may mean that more manufacturing jobs will come back to North America in the long-run. After class, I met with my strategy team to talk about the case write up due on Thursday.

Wednesday – Wednesday started with finance; today’s topic – international finance. We looked at a case where a company was looking for an arbitrage opportunity by finance debt in another currency. In operations, we had a case memo due, and we discussed improvement of manufacturing as well as forecasting.

After class, my strategy team met again to finalize our case write up. Once we finished this case write up, I had my first conversation with my mentor who was appointed to me by the Career Center. This seems like a fantastic match, and I am so excited for how this mentor relationship will unfold.

Thursday – Thursday started bright and early with strategy. In this class we discussed a case about a paper pulp company which was trying to negotiate whether it should vertically integrate into paper products or continue manufacturing pulp. We also discussed the conglomerates and the acquisition strategies used in the history of the US. After, we had stats where we discussed more about linear regression and learned how to use SPSS to complete this analysis. This will certainly make the IDP more manageable.

After grabbing a lunch, my team met to go over our finance case write up that is due on Monday. This analysis is on the stock price and valuation of Crocs. It was interesting to look at a company that we all know about. This meeting took less time than I had anticipated and before I knew it, I was home trying to get some homework done for next week.

Friday – I woke up Friday feeling the effects of the cold I had caught last weekend. However, at this time of the semester I have to push through and make sure I don’t get anyone else sick. My team met early to go over our IDP. This is a strategy project that also includes statistical analysis and financial analysis. Each of us talked about what we had researched as far as competitors or the company was concerned. We split up work and created deliverables for the following week.

After this meeting, I went home and tried to get some homework done. However, I ended up sleeping in hopes that it would help shake my cold.

Saturday – Saturday I got up early because I had rehearsal from 9 to 2. Once I got to rehearsal, one of the women that I teach with felt my forehead and insisted that I had a fever. But this was my last time seeing my group in competition this season, so I pushed through. I’m so glad that I did because they had the best show of the season! However, I left after my group performed because I knew I couldn’t make it through the entire show.

One of the other staff members texted me the scores, and we definitely closed the gap between us and our local competition. We got second place by only two tenths. Although they will face greater completion at nationals in two weeks, this shows that they are ready and hungry.

When I came home, Jim was finishing up the wedding invitations that we had designed! How awesome of him! He also asked local bakeries for a quote for our wedding cake/cupcakes! Our wedding will be here before we know it!

Sunday – Sunday also started with an early wake up, but this time I got up to write my supply chain case write up. I had to teach from 3 to 8, but the other women that I teach with let me leave at 5 because I was so sick the previous day. This allowed me to go to bed early! Hopefully I can shake this cold. The workload is just going to increase until finals.

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