Can you hear that flushing sound?  Not to worry, it’s not a ghost using your toilet, oh no, it’s the sound of my aspired to GPA of 4.0 being flushed downed the proverbial crapper.  As I write this blog post I am about 50% complete with week 3’s assignment and 100% lost.  It’s not that I cannot do the formulas, I cannot find where to get the data that I need to perform the formulas.  This weeks assignment has me running everywhere from Yahoo.Finance to Reuters to the SEC’s website, scouring literally 100’s of pages of mostly useless information just to grab 1 or 2 numbers in order to apply them within different formulas.  The problem is that I’m not sure that the numbers I am using are correct as the book doesn’t exactly explain how to find them on the different websites you are required to visit.  It’s really irksome and in my opinion short sighted of the authors of the book.  It would have been better had they used screen shots.  

So will I pass this assignment?  I have no stinking idea.  For real!!!  I mean last week I felt 100% on everything I did but got tanked on my discussion posts for not being substantive enough in my replies (which were par for the course by the way) and this week I am getting absolutely creamed on the assignment.  I’m really freaking out right now.

I know I shouldn’t be crying about 1 little assignment or the fact that my personal goal of a 4.0 is lying on the floor bleeding profusely and looking critical, but I can’t help it.  I’ve really worked hard to get this far with my GPA in tact and really busted my butt on some really, really late nights only to be knocked out in the last round of the fight.  It’s just agonizing.

Well thanks for listening to me cry.  It’s time for me to get back to the slaughter.