School Up the Wazoo

While a lack of blog updates is nothing new for me, this semester's scarcity largely due to how much crazier/busier this semester has been than usual. School has been clobbering my time, and then with ultimate and the occasional socializing on top of that, I haven't had much downtime. Without further ado, some updates on my life:

Classes:
Organizational Communication and Its Social Context (aka OrgComm) - Infamous at Stern as one of the most time-consuming classes that everyone has to take at the business school. The point is to make you good at all the forms of communication that one might find in business (emails, letters, speeches, powerpoints, etc.). Furthermore, group work is a large part of this class and that means even more outside time taken up. Kinda fun and interesting, but terrible time suck.
Entrepreneurship for the New Economy aka Entrepreneurship 2.0 aka Ready, Fire! Aim (aka rfa or ent) - The professor is a partner at a venture capital firm volunteering his time, not actually a teacher so the class is naturally a bit unorthodox and unorganized (see the multiple names that the class has been called). The idea behind the class is to create a hypothetical business and role play presenting it to a board of VCs but my group (Nicky and me and 3 others) have decided to actually try our hands at starting something for real (which I will write about in another post). Hands-on, non-traditional, cool speakers every week, but again just as much of a time suck as OrgComm if not more.
Financial Statement Analysis (aka FSA) - Higher-level accounting class. That means no more making balance sheets; statements are already done, we get to analyze them. Not too much else to say here...practical, good professor, and I sit next to a 919.
Computer Systems Organization (aka CSO) - Final computer science class needed to get a minor. So far all we've done is learn C programming so it has been pretty laid-back. Optional homework, stereotypical/crazy CS prof, chill class where Cori and I mostly don't pay much attention and it hasn't hurt us yet.
World Cultures: Russia Since 1917 (aka Russia) - Last general education (or as NYU calls them, Morse Academic Plan) class. I never liked the choices for World Cultures but I figured I might as well get this shit over with. A fair bit of reading, but I stopped going to lecture a while ago because it just wasn't time-effective (especially on the days I fell asleep, lulz). Recitation has a surprisingly high number of hott chix (though only surprising because my normal classes are biz/compsci). Basically, class is a meh, could be better but it could be worse too.

Ultimate:
We've gotten a lot less outdoor practice than we would have liked since one tournament got snowed out and another got postponed and shrunk. Aside from that, stuff's been going pretty good although we still are not quite living up to our potential as a team. Still got a month before sectionals to tighten stuff up though. I've been feeling good about my deep cuts recently, gotta still work on speeding up my throws and fakes. We got our uniforms a couple weeks ago and they look way more badass than last year's, even got matching shorts too, woooo.

Other Stuff:
I've gone to two shows so far this semester. I went to see Oberhofer, a band that Nicky's roommate from last year was in, with Nicky and Kristen a couple weeks ago. Really surprisingly good, although Mike (the roommate) is pretty pro with music so I should have expected as much from a band he was in. Last week I went to a concert sponsored by the NYU Ski/Snowboard Club and Burton where Javelin, Born Ruffians, and Man Man played. Nicky, Kristen, Max, and Henry went too although Kristen and Henry were busy with their respective +1s. I wasn't super excited by Javelin and the crowd didn't care too much either. The Born Ruffians were sick though, everyone was getting pumped. Unfortunately I couldn't stay for Man Man cuz I had to go to frisbee practice. $7 well spent nonetheless.
There were two sweet frisbee parties a couple weeks ago too. One was a potluck at the childhood home of one of the Femmes. It turned out that Kahyee and I were the only guys that showed up. That was fine though because we got to enjoy the culinary contributions of 11 ladies for the small contribution of some sweets (I baked choco chip cookies). The following weekend some of the chicks from that party had a macaron-making get-together. The macarons (not macaroons!) didn't quite turn out (more like piles of macaron material and ganache), but they were tasty nonetheless.
Jack visited briefly for around 24 hours, which was cool although his early departure was unfortunate. Some weekend soon hopefully I will be free (ie no frisbee) and so will Jack and we can have a real solid bro weekend.
Also watched a fair number of movies recently:
Leap Year: Saw this with Liz cuz she needed a movie buddy. It was a pretty mediocre romcom but Liz loved it (she loves anything Irish).
Up in the Air: Great movie, not quite what I was expecting. I agree with the "movie for our times" description though for sure.
Up: Another instant classic adorable Pixar movie.
Last Tango in Paris: Weirdly sexual, definitely European. Interestingly, Marlon Brando reminded me of my dad a lot of the time.
A History of Violence: Surprisingly explicit (both sexually and violently) but still a good time.
The Hurt Locker: Very well done war movie about a different side of the effort. Glad it won over Avatar although it wasn't like my favorite movie ever.
A Serious Man: Odd but quality stuff; also the most Jewish thing I've ever experienced.

Alright, I gotta finish up this blog post now cuz I gotta pack for spring break with the frisbee team in Georgia!!!