We finished our first session of courses last week. Ah, a relaxing deep breath for everyone. They're behind us -- and we're moving forward to the next class.
All of us had been told that the first session would be the hardest. It makes sense if you think about it. Returning to school, adjusting to life with additional responsibilities. Courses that are foreign to you, new subject matter often different or more challenging than previous classwork we'd experienced.
And we're better for it, I think. Several of us were talking on Friday morning, near the conclusion of the week's classes on-campus, about how much we'd progressed in three months. All of us learned the ins-and-outs of graduate-level finance. We'll be better fiscal managers with the information and some people might even be well served to use the new knowledge in their thesis. We've also mastered Microsoft Excel and the many applications that allow a manager to be more efficient using technology. And there's logistics, too. We gained an understanding of economic order quantity, supply chain management and what it takes for a company to achieve strategic fit.
That's seven hours of credit, if you're keeping score. That means there's only 32 more credits to go!
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