Dunzo!!

Yay! I'm done with Finals! I'm officially finished classes at the Grenoble Ecole de Management. I have mixed feelings about this. A lot of students really disliked GEM because it's really unorganized, over half of your grade is always based on your one final, and the professors are really hard to get in touch with. I didn't really have a problem with it. Sure, it is frustrating when you can't go to a professors office hours or you have no clue what your schedule with be only a week before, but I had a great time at GEM. The professors are really great. I mean that. They are from all over the world, but mostly from Europe, went to fabulous schools, and now just really like teaching their respective subjects. I don't know if I mentioned this before, but each class has at least three different professors so I've been instructed by about twelve professors this semester. I say that the professors were awesome, however there were definitely a few that bored me to tears or were just really terrible at explaining things. One of our International Finance professors was just that; he drowned on and on, and when asked a question, he made absolutely no sense. Another one of our professors for the Economic Environment of the EU was kind of shaky with the English language (he was from Poland) and DID ECON GRAPHS WRONG! Whew, it's taken me a while to get past this... Currently, I'm just glad that his silly graphs weren't on the final.

Man, finals almost killed me this week and I'm not really sure why. They just really stressed me out. Maybe it was because I didn't really get a chance to study in the past couple of weeks or maybe because most of the exams were essay questions. (International Business Ethics on Monday consisted of writing three FOUR page essays on particularly challenging questions). Innovation and Product Design (my favorite class) wasn't too bad except for a silly question that I had no clue how to answer. International Finance was slightly easier than expected which was a very good thing considering how many terrible finance questions they could have asked. I really feel like I learned A TON about finance this semester. I didn't realize it until I started studying for the final, but I understand a lot about finance and international business that I most certainly didn't before this semester. Today, was my last final in Economic Environment of the European Union which I currently don't even want to think about.

Never the less, I'm officially finished with International Business classes forever!! Well, until I decide to get an MBA and take more businessy things which will most certainly involve international aspects...

I'll blog about my last couple of weeks soon, but currently I'm just really excited to go to the UNITED KINGDOM. I feel like I've already been there a little bit since I hear so much about it from my friends here, the GLS students staying in London, and from Asher. It'll be great to go in THREE DAYS! So excited. I'll blog more soon.

Au revoir, je suis fini!!