finally

finally presented.
oh god i was so nervous.
thanks min for the pushes.

our management class

our management class

we created a blog
to share our thoughts,
posting all entries
by 12 o'clock.

our first exam
the grades didn't make sense,
luckily our professor
gave us a chance.

Our second exam,
people were so lame;
they left the classroom
after writing down their names.

I am no good test taker,
but I've tried so hard for the grade.
If professor you like my poem,
please give me an A.

Communicating via Blog

Honestly, this is my first blog ever. I knew what a blog was but never created one before until the beginning of this semester. I think this blog assignment is truly helpful toward the learning subjects taught in class. Many people often don’t tend to speak in class even thought they might have ideas and comments in their minds, and they could easily type it up in their blog as much as they want. I often do the blog entries on time not only this is a 20% of my grade, but I also feel like this is a great communication channel where I can share my ideas and beliefs to other students. For example, the blog entry of vision: I had shared my opinions and thoughts with other students and I got many positive feedbacks from others. However, I don’t feel like the requirement of responding to five of the people’s blog entries. If you take a closer look at everybody’s comments, you will find out that most of them are just very simple and their entries are just to satisfy the requirement. But overall, the blog assignment is great and I enjoy being a study of Prof Kurpis. I think he has very creative ideas toward teaching, absolutely different from other Baruch professors.

d high c

I am surprised. This DISC test is amazingly well described my management orientation. I am gauged as a D high C, which describes me as "emphasis is on shaping the environment by overcoming opposition to accomplish results" and at the same time "working conscientiously within existing circumstances to ensure quality and accuracy. I truly find myself as a person who likes to solve problems and accept challenges. It sounds like I could become a great leader because I fall into the dominance category. The test shows I am very low in steadiness, which I think it is very accurate because I generally do not want to work with others. But, I do want to influence others by persuade people with my arguments.
I really think this DISC test is very helpful to us, not only because it describes how exactly everybody's strong areas in management are, it also gives detail action plan and suggestions on how to be even more effective. I am so glad to take this management test; and it will help me to improve my management skill in the future.

visions

From the day one of attending college, I've already knew my visions - what I wanted to accomplish in my life. Well, I used to have many thoughts about my life, but this one seems to be much more realistic than others - I want to be tax professional, and I know where exactly I need to start. While I am completing my accounting degree at Baruch College, I will work for PWC as an intern. So I could get hired as a regular employee right after my college graduation. I know the path is not as easy as it sounds, but I will have the knowledge to get everything done for it. My second vision is also related to tax - I want to open my own CPA firm in downtown Manhattan, in conjunction with real estate and insurance services. The actions I should take is possibly for this vision is pretty much like the previous one, and I know that I should learn as much as I can while I am at one of the big fours. My third vision is to build a free school in China. This seems silly but I really had thought about it. I will be fully sponsored for the school, so whoever can't afford to learn will have a chance. I totally understand the necessary of having adequate education. So if I am rich enough (in the future), I would probably make this dream come true. I've done many researched on this, in order to build a school in China, all I need is just money. The Chinese government generally does not bother with your generous action. So you've been reading my visions with actions, now it's time to hear yours.

in-class decision making

Personally, I used the Collaborating Method to handle the in-class decision making exercise. First, we discussed the problems of the exam format. Then we discussed the options that would possibly be advantage to all of the students. Knowing the fact that the exam-average of the whole class is very low, we came out with the idea to drop the lowest grade of the 2 mid-terms. Even though all the students in our row agreed with this solutions, we had absolutely no idea what the other students think, so we decided to go to other groups to see what they think. I chose this method is mainly I believed that this is the only way to get something out of the problem and we must be clam and do it fairly. Professor required a 100% class agreement in order for the "laws" to pass, so I believe it is very fair to everyone.
The class was very noisy and everybody was expressing his/her own options. I believe that if we could come out with a real check-list, which allows everybody to click on multiple options to correct the exam problems without writing his/her name on that check-list. So everybody has the equal right to vote, and all votes are kept privately. Overall I am very happy with the class decision. Hope everybody will be benefited with it.

yoyo egg

I am so glad that our group could successfully achieved "drop the egg" experiment and earned full 5 extra points. We first defined our ultimate goal is to find the best way to land the egg without breaking it and of course we knew that we only had 20 minutes to plan it. At first each member came up with their own ideas on how to do it. Then we analyzed the risk and chances of breaking the egg with each idea. Two team members actually came up with an idea which is to connect all the straws and tape the egg together, so we can safely land the egg into the floor without breaking/dropping it. The first thing came to our mind was, "is this ok to do? does professor allow us to do it? does the professor admit this is a good method and give us full credit? or he would say this is cheating." With all those questions in mind, we actually went up and asked professor Krupis, and confirmed that it is legit. So we cut the straws sideway, and connected them all together along with the egg. It came out very nicely and the actual length of the straws are far longer than 10 feet. We then tested the strength of the tape connectors by pulling the straws moderatly. We were so glad to see the bonding were very strong. Overall, we loved the experiment and our team members all contributed greatly.