Walkin’ in the DM Wonderland!

By Randy Zwitch - December 20th, 2009 Category: CCMBA 2010D| Semester 2

Drink up, bro...Decision Models is over!

Sleigh bells ring, are you listening?
Home from work, brow is glistening.
Not a beautiful sight,
Frustrated tonight,
Walking in the DM wonderland.

Gone away are my evenings,
In their place, lots of screaming!
I play with Crystal Ball,
Impossible problems to solve,
Walking in the DM wonderland.

In the meantime I need to build a D tree,
Then pretend that it actually works.
I’ll move onto Solver
And say: “WTF, man?”
Constrained Optimization really hurts!

Deadline’s looming, things look dire
As I try to put out the fire
My models don’t work
I feel like a jerk…
Walking in the DM wonderland.

In the meantime let’s solve for RT
Utility curves aren’t as useful as they sound
Turned my exam in well before the deadline
Time to have some fun out on the town!

DM is over, ain’t it thrilling?
In two days, Managerial Econ gets top billing
Until then hard I will play, it’s the Fuqua way,
Now that I’m out of the DM wonderland.

(For those of you unfamiliar with the melody of Winter Wonderland, check out Bing Crosby on YouTube)

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London, day 12: Is that a banana in your pants?

By Randy Zwitch - August 27th, 2009 Category: CCMBA 2010D| Residency 1: London

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I haven’t seen a beatin’ like that since somebody stuck a banana in my pants and turned a monkey loose!  - Cousin Eddie, Vegas Vacation

If you’re wondering what this has to do with management, Duke, or wondering if I’ve just snapped, this quote was given by Ben Sossa, Director of Program Delivery at Duke, describing the crowd of 120 Fuqua students he found before him last evening.

Quick summary of the speech…this program is difficult on purpose, trying to create tension, you’re going to make it, study hard tonight for accounting, you’re all a bunch of bananas, see you in Dubai!

I don’t know about the rest of my classmates, but I hit the books hard last night, and it will show at 1 p.m.  Or not…I’m not really that prepared for this afternoon!  I do know what a “Pimms Cocktail” tastes like now though…Debit ‘Accumulated London Culture’, Credit ‘My dignity’.

Good luck today everyone!  I’ll leave you with this quote from Vegas Vacation, which might be even more apropos:

You don’t know when to quit, do ya Griswold?… Here’s an idea: Why don’t you give me half the money you were gonna to bet, then we’ll go out back, I’ll kick you in the nuts, and we’ll call it a day!

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