Finals Time
Man the last couple of weeks have been hectic. I've got most of one of those lined Post-Its stuck on my computer next to the track pad with my to-do list for the last two weeks on it.
[x] Capstone Proposal
[x] Personal Marketing Plan [ ] Final
[ ] Internship Journals
[x] Marketing Plan [x] Presentation [ ]
[x] Business Plan [x] Presentation [ ]
[x] Essay [ ] Concert Review
Each line is a class, and it's pretty much in the order they're due:
Emerging Trends
Intro to Marketing
Internship
Music Marketing
Entrepreneurship: Developing the Music Business Venture
Writing About Popular Music
I was supposed to be done with Music Marketing and Entrepreneurship after today, but we didn't get through presentations in either class. So, today is the second to last day of classes, but Wednesday is going to be more presentations and we're changing in both those classes to a take-home final due Friday. The journals for Internship are due Friday as well. I fly home on Thursday, so guess what I'm going to be doing on the plane? Originally the finals for those classes were supposed to be NEXT Wednesday too, as this Wednesday is officially Reading Day, but we convinced him to move them up because the 23rd is just way too late.
I'm really excited to get this all done with. My business plan is 18 pages long if you include the spreadsheets. That's not that much for a business plan, but still. My essay (on the first incarnation of Rough Trade Records and why they revolutionized the indie scene in the UK and why they ultimately failed) was 11 pages. This is the most writing I've done since Freshman year I think.
Right now, I'm procrastinating on that Intro to Marketing final. It's all essay questions, but we're limited to one page double-spaced per question. It's due by 11am tomorrow. Then my last concert review thing only has to be 300 words and is due at 6pm. Then I need to do laundry and start packing and rehearse my presentations a couple of times. Oh NYU, how you work us through the very last minute.
Break should be really fun though. I'm getting home, changing, and going out to dinner with the family & Grandma at the country club we randomly decided to become semi-members of. Saturday I'm having a bunch of people over to watch the Waters of Mars US premier. I think most of us will have seen it already through the magic of the internet, but we're trying to offset our impatience by boosting the ratings. (Not that I have a Nielson box...) Then Sunday I think I'm taking the train down to Portland to join the rest of my family at my other Grandma's house. Then we're doing Christmas early before going up to Whistler and skiing until just before New Years. New Years is probably going to be at Carolyn's cabin again, but might be at Whistler with family friends, I have to decide. Then a week at home, probably with more skiing at Stevens, before the whole group of high school friends & local college roommates heads up to the cabin at Whistler for a weekend. Then I fly back and have a week here before my classes start again.
Oh, and I've joined yet another site that's probably gonna take me away from here. First Twitter with it's easy, quick, tiny updates. Then DailyBooth, with pictures accompanied by captions of any length. Oh boy.
I've decided Lady GaGa is actually really really good. I was all prepared to not care, just like with almost every other artist in the Top 40, but then her songs started getting stuck in my head. I have to give her props for keeping up with her "I'ma do my own thing, so deal" persona no matter what, and I have to concede that her music is just fucking catchy. Also, she dropped out of NYU, and would have graduated last year, so that's kinda cool.
Anyway. I want the semester to be over already, so I should probably get on that Marketing final.
[x] Capstone Proposal
[x] Personal Marketing Plan [ ] Final
[ ] Internship Journals
[x] Marketing Plan [x] Presentation [ ]
[x] Business Plan [x] Presentation [ ]
[x] Essay [ ] Concert Review
Each line is a class, and it's pretty much in the order they're due:
Emerging Trends
Intro to Marketing
Internship
Music Marketing
Entrepreneurship: Developing the Music Business Venture
Writing About Popular Music
I was supposed to be done with Music Marketing and Entrepreneurship after today, but we didn't get through presentations in either class. So, today is the second to last day of classes, but Wednesday is going to be more presentations and we're changing in both those classes to a take-home final due Friday. The journals for Internship are due Friday as well. I fly home on Thursday, so guess what I'm going to be doing on the plane? Originally the finals for those classes were supposed to be NEXT Wednesday too, as this Wednesday is officially Reading Day, but we convinced him to move them up because the 23rd is just way too late.
I'm really excited to get this all done with. My business plan is 18 pages long if you include the spreadsheets. That's not that much for a business plan, but still. My essay (on the first incarnation of Rough Trade Records and why they revolutionized the indie scene in the UK and why they ultimately failed) was 11 pages. This is the most writing I've done since Freshman year I think.
Right now, I'm procrastinating on that Intro to Marketing final. It's all essay questions, but we're limited to one page double-spaced per question. It's due by 11am tomorrow. Then my last concert review thing only has to be 300 words and is due at 6pm. Then I need to do laundry and start packing and rehearse my presentations a couple of times. Oh NYU, how you work us through the very last minute.
Break should be really fun though. I'm getting home, changing, and going out to dinner with the family & Grandma at the country club we randomly decided to become semi-members of. Saturday I'm having a bunch of people over to watch the Waters of Mars US premier. I think most of us will have seen it already through the magic of the internet, but we're trying to offset our impatience by boosting the ratings. (Not that I have a Nielson box...) Then Sunday I think I'm taking the train down to Portland to join the rest of my family at my other Grandma's house. Then we're doing Christmas early before going up to Whistler and skiing until just before New Years. New Years is probably going to be at Carolyn's cabin again, but might be at Whistler with family friends, I have to decide. Then a week at home, probably with more skiing at Stevens, before the whole group of high school friends & local college roommates heads up to the cabin at Whistler for a weekend. Then I fly back and have a week here before my classes start again.
Oh, and I've joined yet another site that's probably gonna take me away from here. First Twitter with it's easy, quick, tiny updates. Then DailyBooth, with pictures accompanied by captions of any length. Oh boy.
I've decided Lady GaGa is actually really really good. I was all prepared to not care, just like with almost every other artist in the Top 40, but then her songs started getting stuck in my head. I have to give her props for keeping up with her "I'ma do my own thing, so deal" persona no matter what, and I have to concede that her music is just fucking catchy. Also, she dropped out of NYU, and would have graduated last year, so that's kinda cool.
Anyway. I want the semester to be over already, so I should probably get on that Marketing final.