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Classes are winding down

With the semester coming to an end next week, it’s been interesting comparing this semester with the past 7. The biggest change for this semester was the fact that I’m not actually taking any finance courses, although I do have one risk management course that involves...

Grad Pics

I’ve never been someone who feels the need to take lots of pictures, or to be in many photos, so I’ve never seen much importance in grad photos. With graduation almost here, I finally remembered to buy my cap and gown last week before then thinking about graduation...

Altering stock price and EPS

Last week I went on a little bit of a rant about BA 411, but I will acknowledge there’s one thing that being in the course has taught/shown me; the fact that it’s really easy to manipulate earnings per share results. I mentioned the CapSim simulation that we have to...

BA 411

As every business major knows, before graduating from PSU we’ll have to take the business capstone course BA 411. While everyone has their own opinions on the course, most people I’ve talked to both dislike the course and don’t see much educational benefit in it. The...

International candy sales

Adam Rutter For the past several years, and still today, The Hershey Company has struggled to gain a competitive footprint in the international sweets market. This has been caused by a combination of poor performance in the chocolate-food category, even here in the...

Weekend Retreat

This weekend was our annual new member retreat for Lion Ambassadors, and while it was a very long weekend it was also very rewarding. On Friday night it was just the seniors, so that was out night to bond and just hang out as a small group. We ended up staying awake...

35 Minutes to Midnight

If there are two things college students seem to love, its procrastination and excuses to justify it. While I myself am a frequent procrastinator like most other students, I normally don’t try to excuse it and just figure that as long as I get all my work done there’s...

Credit scores, credit cards, yay adult things

Since I’ll soon be graduating I’ve been spending a lot of time recently doing various things to prepare myself to be more of a “real” adult. Part of that was a topic of a previous blog of mine, referring to the fact that I got a part time job to start having a (small)...

Finished my first shift

Yesterday was my first day on the job as a bar back at Champs, and while it’s not what I would call an exciting job it’s something that I at least don’t mind doing. Based on what I was told during my shift yesterday, it’s basically the exact same things done in the...

My first “real” job

I’ve decided I’m staying in State College over the summer, so in preparation for that I decided to start looking for a job that I can do part time now and then full time over the summer. I felt like doing something that wouldn’t be an office job and wouldn’t be a 9-5...