Day 2 and there are butterflies

Today was just one of those days, you just have to live with. I had two classes - Microeconomics and Marketing ... the two courses being typically a study in contrast - one being a little heavy and the other full of energy. So, it is surprising that I went through the two courses with almost the same emotions - heavy.

Microeconomics - The prof decided to go slow today as this was just the beginning and it did seem like the course needs to speed up but then, if it did, I am not sure if I will have the stomach for that. I am excited about Microeconomics - that is my kind of course - cold and rational. But I go back to the days in IIT when I did the Economics course, the only course ( maybe the only other course besides Maths IV) that I regreted. The course was all screwed up, I had three faculty in a one semester course - we had facultys leave our batch like dead flies. At the end, we were combined with another batch and there was a hotch potch and I do not remember even hearing a word in the class and the only that I remember is sitting in one of the back benches with about 60 people, all doing our own things. In this class, only the first two rows had people looking at the teacher and there were about 5 empty rows between the second row and the rest of the class, and the teacher did not seem to bother. All that matterred to us was to get the attendance. So for the course, All that I did was to read Samuelson the day before the exam and I thought I was pretty brilliant as an economist but I did not score enough in my grades as I would have liked and I have not figured out why. Of course if I had studied, it would have helped, but I am still not sure when my answers were wrong and I think that is the problem with Economics - though it is supposed to be cold and rational, interpretation for outcome is determined by the faculty. If there are absolute answers, why is the world not a better place - how can anything be absolute. I have a bad feeling that this would happen again unless I hit the books real hard and I should, as this course is only for a few weeks and I will not have time to make up later.

I have always had problems with Marketing. The problem with Marketing is that there are NO absolute answers but what is important is that you need to be cock sure that what you are saying is RIGHT. I have a problem with that. I do not like to use absolute terms when I know that there are other probabilities. I think this is one subject where how you influence the answer is more important than the answer itself. I had a feeling for that in todays class but Iam a fighter and I guess I have learnt it today and I will be more ready and work on a little more on my communication style.

Hmmm... This is getting interesting