So, this semester in my Advanced Financial Analysis class, we have to do a bunch of case analysis'. This time in particular, we had to defend/ explain our answer for a question we were randomly assigned to. The company we were looking at this time was MCI and the theoretical question that we got to "defend" our answer for was what kind of financing option would we recommend the CEO take after our analysis and with the options of: 1) $500 million in bonds, 2) $500 in common stock, and 3) $500 million in convertible bonds that were callable after 5 years. After our analysis, we picked the $500 million in convertible bonds.
Side note: We were assigned groups for group work in all our classes for the semester and they are the same for every class. So I have this guy in my group, who I knew from before when I took Stats my first semester at BYU, who has a really bad habit of always thinking he is right even when the numbers prove he is wrong and we tell him a 1,001 ways he is wrong. We also have gotten to the point where we kind of ignore, for the most part, whatever he says because usually he is wrong anyways. Is that really bad?
Anyways, without boring you with all the details, when we were explaining why we chose the $500 million in convertible bonds, he kept trying to go off on his tangent that we had shot down multiple times already and we had not included at all in our analysis. Our professor was like "okay" in that way where you are not really too sure about a person or not. So I spoke up and started explaining why we had chosen the $500 million convertible bonds and afterwards my professor said "you get an A+ for the day." A few more questions later and this group member trying to go off on his tangents again several times (even after our teacher telling him that he should just stick with me because I was right), he goes off again. So I just start talking and explain another aspect of why we chose it and then my teacher said "you definitely get an A++ for the day." And then he says again to this group member "you should stick with Jessica."
Score! Then when the next group was defending their answer for the same question we answered, they said "well, we chose that option (the $500 million convertible bonds) because Jessica is right." My teacher replied, "yes, Jessica is right but why else did you chose it?..." Anyways, it just made me feel good inside that I knew what I was talking about and it was on a topic that I really could not have told you too much about before this semester. Plus, it was just funny that my teacher kept telling this group member of mine to stick with my answer because I was right.
So I got an A++ in that class for the day! Not that it really counts for anything but still....
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Wednesday, February 24
Sunday, October 18
TOE JAM!
So this semester I am taking a Biology 100 class. However, by some of the assignments, you would not guess that this is a general education class! For example, we have to do a big project complete with proposal, peer reviews, major sources, the experiment, research papers, etc.... So for this, I decided to do my project on.... wait for it.... toe jam! I started my proposal off with "How clean are you really?" We also had to include a sentence in there about why our experiment is original and creative and I put down that mine was original and creative because we get to measure toe jam!
The point of the experiment is to determine if it really matters what kind of bar soap you use in showering, and if so, what kind. According to the FDA, there are three types of soap out there: "true" soap, cosmetic soap, and drug soap. "True" soap being soap that just cleans without any extra ingredients, detergents, cleansers, etc... added in. Cosmetic soap being soap that cleanses, moisturizes, beautifies, etc... with drug soap being soaps that are recommended by determatologists, acne soaps, etc... I set my experiment up to have 3 control groups with 3 people in each group. Each group will shower with one of the soaps and take four samples of bacteria throughout the two weeks. There will be a sample taken before they start showering with the soap, 3 days in, 7 days in, and at the end of the 2 weeks. Basically, they will just shower with the soap and when I give them a petri dish, they will scrap between their toes and wipe it on the dish. I was able to get the hook-up with the petri dishes (meaning I didn't have to pay for them of the auger! Bonus!!! because I needed 12 of them.) and the guy that gave them to me, Chris, told me that I could use that lab and the resources there to incubate and refrigerate the samples too! I was pretty happy about this.
One of my Biology teachers had told me to go talk to one of the Molecular Biology teachers and he'd tell me what I needed to know to conduct the experiment and where to get the petri dishes and auger. After class, I went up there but none of the teachers or TA's were up there. Then I saw one of my old roommates working and when she asked what I was doing up there and I told her, we talked with the head lab student, Chris, who hooked me up with everything. I was just expecting to get some questions answered that day about how to do everything but instead came away with petri dishes in addition to getting my questions answered! Score!
The point of the experiment is to determine if it really matters what kind of bar soap you use in showering, and if so, what kind. According to the FDA, there are three types of soap out there: "true" soap, cosmetic soap, and drug soap. "True" soap being soap that just cleans without any extra ingredients, detergents, cleansers, etc... added in. Cosmetic soap being soap that cleanses, moisturizes, beautifies, etc... with drug soap being soaps that are recommended by determatologists, acne soaps, etc... I set my experiment up to have 3 control groups with 3 people in each group. Each group will shower with one of the soaps and take four samples of bacteria throughout the two weeks. There will be a sample taken before they start showering with the soap, 3 days in, 7 days in, and at the end of the 2 weeks. Basically, they will just shower with the soap and when I give them a petri dish, they will scrap between their toes and wipe it on the dish. I was able to get the hook-up with the petri dishes (meaning I didn't have to pay for them of the auger! Bonus!!! because I needed 12 of them.) and the guy that gave them to me, Chris, told me that I could use that lab and the resources there to incubate and refrigerate the samples too! I was pretty happy about this.
One of my Biology teachers had told me to go talk to one of the Molecular Biology teachers and he'd tell me what I needed to know to conduct the experiment and where to get the petri dishes and auger. After class, I went up there but none of the teachers or TA's were up there. Then I saw one of my old roommates working and when she asked what I was doing up there and I told her, we talked with the head lab student, Chris, who hooked me up with everything. I was just expecting to get some questions answered that day about how to do everything but instead came away with petri dishes in addition to getting my questions answered! Score!
Tuesday, January 6
The World is Flat
I am taking an information systems class this semester in school and we got given an assignment yesterday that I was not really looking forward to because of the length. We were told to watch this video(http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/266/), which happened to be 1.25 hours long, and then take a quiz. That is a long video to watch just to take a quiz!
Thankfully, the video actually turned out to be quite interesting. Or at least, I thought so. It is this guy, Thomas L. Friedman, who talks about his book, "The World is Flat" and then answers some questions afterwards. Throughout the lecture, he talks about the first three chapters of his book. And it kind of intrigued me.
A couple of things that were said really stuck out to me. When he was in India, one of his friends said to him, "The global economic field is being leveled and you, Americans, are not ready." The second thing is that his parents used to tell him (just like the rest of our parents) "finish all your food because there are people starving in Africa." However, that is not what stuck out to me. It is what he tells his kids. He tells them, "Finish your homework, because people in China and India are starving for your jobs. And in a flat world, they can have them. because there is no such thing as an American job anymore."
For me, it was interesting and it kind of makes you think.
Thankfully, the video actually turned out to be quite interesting. Or at least, I thought so. It is this guy, Thomas L. Friedman, who talks about his book, "The World is Flat" and then answers some questions afterwards. Throughout the lecture, he talks about the first three chapters of his book. And it kind of intrigued me.
A couple of things that were said really stuck out to me. When he was in India, one of his friends said to him, "The global economic field is being leveled and you, Americans, are not ready." The second thing is that his parents used to tell him (just like the rest of our parents) "finish all your food because there are people starving in Africa." However, that is not what stuck out to me. It is what he tells his kids. He tells them, "Finish your homework, because people in China and India are starving for your jobs. And in a flat world, they can have them. because there is no such thing as an American job anymore."
For me, it was interesting and it kind of makes you think.
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