I can't wait for classes to begin again. You'd think that after 9 years of college I'd be sick of it...but NAY! I do believe I am a professional student following in the footsteps of my Aunt Frannie, who graduated from Duke in the 40s and has been a full time student since (4-5 PHd's, a dozen or so masters and god knows how many bachelor degrees).
So my classes:
OMIS675 Techical Application of Electronic Business - Ecommerce in .Net
OMIS651 Business Systems Analysis and Decisons - how to write programs for non-CS majors
FINA320 Principles of Finance (eew)
MGMT333 Principles of Management (eew)
Not a terribly hard schedule, and it leaves a slew of time for work in the lab, do my own projects (if proper motivation is applied) and study for the GMAT and testing out of the Principles of Marketing class in the spring.
Since switching to the business department I have realized how utterly clueless many business majors are about technology. They have the most pimped-out building on campus (8 labs, wireless networking, smart classrooms) yet a full 50% of them don't know how to double space a word document. Sure, they can audit my taxes and streamline my production line, but without being able to use the tools to analyze data how are we helping anyone? (just now, half the class I'm monitoring didn't know which drive was the floppy...why we're still using floppies is beyond me)
I was chosen to be the only student member of the Technology Funding Committee for this year. It consists of 2 faculty members, 2 Student Associations members and 1 student (me). I'm not quite sure what it will involve, but I'm sure as hell going to lobby against the new managed-print system we are using (and wasted a ton of money on, seeing as how it doesn't work with MVS, UNIX or remote printing, crashes daily (hourly), is overly complicated and doesn't have nearly as many features as it should/could/must)
That's all...carry on.