I was going to be a BUSINESS minor.
It was perfect! After being asked thousands and thousands of times, "Oh, your major is humanities? What are you going to DO with that?" I thought it would be a good idea.
I mean, I love humanities. We're the perfect match. We really are.
But to enhance and expand my education, I thought a business management minor would be just peachy. So, this semester I am taking two classes: Business Management (which this post is not about) and ACCOUNTING (this post is about exactly that).
Oh the joy.
It's really not so bad. It's just taking over my life.
I have class once a week (not bad), and then I have a bazillion quizzes to accomplish (really, really bad).
Class involves hearing jokes about BYU and watching Max Hall youtube videos for 15 minutes (my professor is a hard core U of U fan) and then having numbers written up on the board for the next two hours, interspersed with more BYU jokes. Wait, where did that number come from? (On a side note, the best part about class is that the wall is the bright, beautiful green color--somewhere between lime and celery--and my professor always wears a red shirt. The green and the red together makes my senses so happy. They are complimentary on the color wheel, so they really bring each other out...I just love it.)
The quizzes. There are two quizzes for each of fifteen lessons, plus pre-lecture quizzes, and the post-lecture quizzes, along with a syllabus quiz, and another-quiz-just-to-make-sure-you're still breathing quiz. I might have made up the last one.
Okay, so quizzes. I can handle that, right? To prepare to take the lesson quizzes, I get to watch NORM.
Meet NORM:
He's a great guy, he really is. I like him. But the accounting lessons are kind of loooonnnnnnnnngggg. Imagine listening to 90 minute accounting lessons 2-3 times a week in addition to class lectures.
This is what happened on my first encounter with the lessons:
Start lesson.
Oh, this is cool. I get to see him talk and see a powerpoint at the same time.
Five minutes later.
Wait, how long are these lessons?
Scroll through.
Wow, these lessons are long.
Twenty minutes into the lesson.
Wow, this is so cool! I can speed up Norm to talk reallyfastandsoundlikeachipmunk or I can slllooowwww hiiiimmmm dooooowwwwwnnn.
Forty minutes into the lesson.
Hey, Amanda, want to come watch this with me? Amanda, "um..." Me, "I'll give you candy!"
An hour into it...
I think I'm hungry. and thirsty. and sleepy. In fact, I'm anything that will distract me from this thing.
And finally...90 minutes later....done.
Whew.
The funny thing about this course is that we're required to do something fun ONCE the semester that we wouldn't have done otherwise. Um, couldn't have we been required to do something fun twice or three times or daily? I would like that...
Accounting is really interesting though. It's a nice challenge and I feel like I'm doing something so useful--learning about balance sheets and income statements and stocks and such. I feel like I will finally get those things that my dad and other "knowing" people always talk about, but that I never really understand.
But I still prefer my art history ;O)
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