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Selfish Self Promotion

I wrote an article for business because, a business/business school related online magazine. Take a look

http://www.businessbecause.com/syed-husain/dubais-dreams-turn-to-dust

I didn’t pick the title, seemed a little too grandiose but it conveys my ideas about Dubai. I need to start packing for India, has anyone picked up any packing tricks for these residencies they would care to share?

My theme for Semester 2: Embarrassment

After seeing my exam 2 grade from Managerial Economics, and my final grade as a result, I am truly embarrassed and humbled.  I learned of my final grade at work before seeing what I got on the exam and was dumbfounded; after seeing the mistakes I made, I really should return my prior degrees.

It’s funny how in the absence of information (my exam 2 grade), how we as humans (or maybe it’s just me) naturally default to ‘there must be some sort of mistake’.  There was, but it’s mine and mine alone.

Usually, I don’t go back over exams that I got to review the actual grade…sure, there could be a incorrect point deduction here, or a mis-grade there, but from my prior experience as a teaching assistant those points don’t matter in the end.  So I usually just give my exams a cursory glance and move on.  I reviewed every single question on this exam, and I think I’ve got the potential for an extra point or two.  But I’m not going to ask for a review, because those points don’t change this simple fact:

There are at least 7 places on the exam where I had the correct answer, and for whatever reason, decided I should change it without looking at the textbook for a quick verification.

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