Friends, my first final of the semester is over, and I’m happy to say that it is…over. One of my favorite sayings is that there’s good, and then there’s good enough, and my grade reflected that. While I still am doing the very best I can, the thing that I’m realizing is that this program is relentless, and so I have to figure out how to do my best in all of my classes, rather than focusing all of my time on one class or another.
This is one of the things that has been different about the MBA program compared to the MDiv – in the MDiv, 9 hours is considered full time. 9 hours. Seriously, I have no clue how some people who don’t work and have no family struggle while only taking 9 hours a semester. In the MBA side, I think that I could argue that you complete the equivalent of 9 hours of credit by just after halfway through the semester (if you count the partial classes you’re still working on). But this program is relentless. In the MDiv program, you work the best you can, but in reality, you could easily take a class “off” or skip a day. Maybe it’s just because I don’t have a business undergrad degree, but I feel like I would be sunk if I were to miss a day of class in the MBA program.
It’s relentless.
Seriously, it never stops. There are two papers that I know I have to do by the end of the semester, and I have no clue when I’m going to do them – I keep waiting for when the professors let their feet off the gas, and it hasn’t happened yet. At this point, I’m not overwhelmed, but I’m definitely whelmed. Good and solidly whelmed.
All of this to say that it’s a different world on this side of campus. Tons more math, tons more cases – I almost wish we read more cases in the MDiv, as I’m starting to see the value in the idea that experience is the best teacher, and sometimes vicarious experience can help real experience. But it’s a whole different world than theology. I’m almost missing the days reading Thomas Aquinas… Wait, no I’m not. It’s not that crazy yet.