-A Day in the life-
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Thursday is one of my busiest days.
I thought I would temporarily become a documentary photographer, by taking photos of all the lectures. So here it goes.
9am, first lecture, Advanced Financial Accounting.
damn, too early. I wonder from when I've become so lazy, when I was working, I used to work from eight...
hmmmm, interesting, lazy student life is contagious.
Anyway, today's lecture was about different ways of calculating cost of inventory.
In short, it's crap (don't ask me why).
Oh yeah, relating to this, I read an interesting article on FT recently,
about accounting firms trying to make companies publish financial statements on a real time basis, using internet.
Yeah, maybe in 50 years time it will happen, but then I'll be a retired person so I don't really have to worry about any of those.
Or maybe I will, maybe I'll have some investments in some business. You never know.
Anyway (I'm not a very good documentary photographer am I?)
after this lecture, I had an hour off.
So, I went back to my room and read some journals on management accounting, which was extremely complicated.
It was so complicated that I decided to read between the lines, then read every two lines, then three, then I decided to skip a paragraph
then I decided to give up.
From 12pm, I had my second lecture, on Taxation.
Boy, this is what you call a GOOD LECTURE, full stop.
Seriously, this lecturer is so funny.
Every time we start a lecture, he talks about some interesting aspects of taxation.
Today, he had a slide on Turner's painting.
Basically, if you have a good painting that's worth millions of pounds, you can get an exemption from inheritance tax,
by donating it to the government.
So thank you inheritance tax for saving the cultural heritage, thank you!
Anyway, today's lecture was on EU tax.
It was alright (the main bit is always a bit boring)
Right, the next generation's Robert Capa (that's me) doesn't stop here.
Doesn't stop, even though I wanted to, that's right, on thursdays, I don't have a lunch break.
From 2pm, I have an Applied Econometrics lecture.
Yes, it's not just a normal econometrics lecture, it's "applied",
so we apply to all sorts of things, like how to forecast how big your kids are going to be when he/she turns 23,
by identifying various variables such as the amount of food he/she ate when he/she was 7 years old
and the amount of exercise, the amount of milk and even the amount of sunshine he/she had received on his/her skin.
Econometricians are great, seriously, if I had to give up my dream of becoming a photographer,
I would become an econometrician.
Yeah, right, that's a joke, good one maki.
Anyway, today we learnt about "Qualitative Response Regression Models", which I'm not going to explain what it is,
one, because you won't understand it anyway, and two, I don't understand it either, haha.
And from three, is really the climax of the day.
The Applied Econometrics Tutorial!!!!! yes!!!!!!
Our tutor, Simon (the picture on the left, not the guy on the right, his name is Graham),
is.... hmmm, how would I describe him,
if you can imagine a soldier, who has just come back from Iraq, who has work experience in a management consultancy firm
and who has too much coffee in his blood, that's him, seriously.
He always starts off the tutorial by saying
"OK KIDS! LISTEN UP!"
Today was even funnier, he went
"What we're going to cover today is not useful at all, I'm serious, not useful.
So when you go out in the workplace, never, ever, use it, I'm serious"
which motivated me so much, thank you.
And to finish you off,
when you are doing a good job on your work during the tutorial, he goes
"you're cool"
And if there's more than one person doing a good job, he goes around the class saying
"You're cool, you're cool, you're cool"
which makes me laugh from my lungs all the time.
And don't ask me what Graham is doing with his chair.
That was pretty much my day.
Nadia cooked something interesting tonight,
it's a rice cake! (literally).
It was so funny, that
that Ed decided to flip her around. (don't ask me why, I'm too logical for this).
So, I hope you enjoyed my documentary.
It's 2am in the morning, so you better have.
Good night.
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