Tuesday, January 07, 2003 :::
Busy this week.
I'm starting an MS in Investment Management program at BU this week. It's a part-time program, except for a week at the beginning and a week at the end. Yesterday's material was mostly review for me. I've been more stressed by other things, like trying to get to know my classmates (it's fewer than thirty people in our class), and make a good impression on them. The email system doesn't recognize me when I try to register for it, and I need to buy a laptop soon (it's only "highly recommended", but since I don't have a desktop that runs Windows, it becomes even more so). And I'll need to start studying tonight or tomorrow night, at the latest.
Perhaps most interesting to people who read this, they talked a lot about the diversity of the class at our orientation. It wasn't diversity of pigmentation, though, it was diversity of background and employment -- most of the class works at financial institutions, but there's a good variety of whom they work for, and in what capacity. I suspect this diversity of experience will add something to classroom discussions.
The University of Michigan will soon argue (has recently argued?) before the Supreme Court that they need racist admissions policies because they want to expose their students to a "diversity of viewpoints", and they're too lazy to do it directly (rather than use race as a heuristic for viewpoint). At least at this one outpost of BU, though, someone seems to be serious.
::: posted by Steven at 6:52 AM
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