The Tipping point - Day 3

With all the tensions about the whole subject and the term paper, I forgot to update the FE blog on time, so this is a little bit delayed post. But to sum up, my third day of financial economics was quite useful, I learned a lot of new things, not only FE related, but developed some new skills as well. But, so far so good. See you on the other side!

The Ice-breaking- day 2

Today was finally more interesting as little bits of some simple theory started to come in, even though the lecturer so far has been very interesting and funny, hopefully it will stay that way throughout the whole course.

As for studying itself, I did quite a lot in the morning, but I still need to catch up something to have my 11 and a half hours of studying a day (80 hours per week is supposed to be the optimal amount). So back to studying.

Cheers!

Day One

I had no problems waking up which is the case when I am excited about something, which is this case, as geeky as it sounds, was FE. I decided to work further on my speed reading skills as I noticed that they have deteriorated though out the last few weeks, so I stared at the dot for twenty minutes while listening to the audio edition of The Economist. The plan is now to go to school and continue reading the articles and perhaps The Economist (which in fact is my other resolution for this course - continue reading The Economist). That’s all for now, so stay tuned!

The first lecture was quite interesting I'd say, we didn't learn much about finance, but it still was quite useful in terms of motivation I guess. We were quite unlucky in terms of the topic choice, as the group picking a topic before us took our top priority, but writing about UK banks shouldn't be much worse. I still have some catching up to do in the morning in terms of reading compendiums, but so far so good.

Peace out and that's it for the day,

Martin

The calm before the storm

This is the day before Financial Economics and so far I haven’t encountered any problems. My team and I have chosen reasonable amount of topics, I have read up to the third compendium and the three introductory paragraphs in the books.

Additionally, I have though about improving the way I spend my time and make my fares generally more efficient. For example, by not visiting Facebook as often as I used to during the holidays. Also by doing some sports a bit more; as a matter of fact, it actually makes you more efficient and is very useful in the long run.

I have also managed to get a proper calculator and other necessary materials. I still have the motivation and I am resolute to pwn at the course. I even managed to end my day with a nice 5 km run.

The Blog

The students of the Stockholm School of Economics have long been intimidated by the well-known course called Financial Economics. At first I was convinced by the rumours but then I got a bit sceptical. So to prove I am right, I am going to post my progress every day on this blog until I am completely sure that it is hell of a course, which it probably is.

I will try to post every day and be honest, so wish my good luck!

Cheers,

A finance enthusiast