new things to learn

i've learned a lot of things since i started graduate school.

on the academic side, i learned to appreciate economic analysis and how it can apply to my everyday life. i learned about managerial accounting and realized that the so-called public financial statements given by companies do not necessarily contain the real story behind a company's financial fitness.

i learned that people can be real users and will exploit your kindness when they don't know the answers to questions and expect you to give it to them. all they need to do actually is to read the book and listen to the professor, and think, which i don't think they're actually doing. so what's the point in their going to graduate school?

a digression: last tuesday night, i was unfortunate enough to get to school late and be seated amongst the aliens in the class. when i say aliens, these are the non-filipino students. the professor was lecturing about statistics and stuff like that, and i had to listen well in order to understand the lesson. but the noise (and the smell) of these aliens jabbering away in their native tongue with no respect for the others in the class totally irked me, and when my seatmate asked me about the answer to the previous week's assignment which we already passed to the teacher at the beginning of the class and which he was stupid enough not to realize that it was an assignment to be passed, i told him i didn't have the answer on me, in a not too nice way.

why not too nice? because he was not being nice and courteous and all. and does he expect me to actually answer the assignment for him? and why does he have to ask when he was also present last week? if only he, and they, would listen.

duh.

it was the same thing last term, when my alien classmates had the gall to actually ask me to answer the take home final paper for Operations Management and then email them my answers. i didn't. i slaved over that paper for days, and i'm a working student, not for public consumption but for me to pass the subject. i let other people copy my work only if they tried and they really can't finish the exam without a little help. but, really now. the "gift" from faceshop you gave me on the last day of school, you said that was for my being a good leader (read: doing the group report all by myself and letting them get credit). it wasn't payment for answering the exam for you.

so, anyway, what else have i learned from graduate school? i learned that i have some talent in math, something i never expected. hahaha. i learned how to use a thumb drive, or more commonly known as a USB drive. i learned that there is more to operations management than just handling a cluster of TLs in a call center. hahaha.

surely there are a lot of things that i learned in graduate school. i aim to learn more, hopefully.