Back at it

Finals have been finished, vacation has been taken, and now I'm back in this game of grad school.  Though Brandeis classes don't officially start until next week, I decided to pick up a tax accounting class this summer at Bentley.  That started last week, and it's going to be a six-week learning whirlwind.  I find it to be a very interesting and useful subject, though the fact that the professor thinks that we'll be competent enough to prepare individual and business tax returns (and that we'll know 95% of the CPA exam material) by the end of it all baffles me.  It seems impossible now, but I bet he's right.  He's probably done this a few times before. 

The semester ended well.  I finished two big projects: a strategic position for Citizen Schools (which I still need to pass along to my contact there ... eek!) and a financial plan/budget for a youth organic farming program that I hypothetically started up.  Though those projects were a TON of work, they both turned out to be pretty interesting.  I wish I'd had more time to spend on them and really dig a lot deeper than I did.  It was a taste of what doing something like that for a job might be like, and in retrospect, it was pretty fun.  

I'm looking forward to our summer semester.  We're doing our Team Consulting Project, and my team is working with ACCION USA to expand an internet loan program.  It's a super interesting organization, and I'm looking forward to producing something that will hopefully be valuable to them as well as learning a few things along the way!