School's In For Summer

Endured my first day of real classes yesterday. The Corporate Strategy and Public Policy class is going to be rectally painous, with tons of reading, group projects, presentations, Wall Street Journal article reports, etc. We have two different instructors, one for Strategy, one for Policy. The Strategy guy got his doctorate at Indian U., so I let it slide that I went there as an undergrad so he'll hopefully give me an A just for that. We'll see how that strategy (har!) works come mid-term.

The instructors of Statistics traded some courses, so I have Dr. Han again, who gave out his home number for emergencies, and said an example of an emergency was, in his thick Asian accent, "...if you find some extra money in your pocket...and...don't have any friends to go drinking...then all classes next day canceled." The small problem is that he's never seen our textbook and didn't have a syllabus. Think he's being screwed over by the Math department...

Quantitative Decision Making is some spreadsheet-building class, doesn't seem too bad, a dynamic speaker. Using some math but more Excel.

Strategic Information Management is a new class, and I taught Information Operations in Colorado Springs, so I'm at least familiar with the topic. The instructor, however, looks and sounds like a balding Agent Smith from the Matrix movies. Angular features, with angry, cocked eyebrows undulating above his glasses, emphasizing words with a cocked fist. A very sarcastic sense of humor, though.

So that's a long day, but I'm still waking up at the time I was at my desk at the Pentagon, so I really can't complain.