Get used to me never having anything optimistic to say. The only thing that I feel is worthwhile talking about, well it just sucks!
If you read my previous entry, you probably noted my dislike for group projects. Today’s events provide a perfect example for why they should all be made illegal by universities around the world. In fact, I think I’ll make a petition. Anyone willing to sign?
Today the first part of my Efficiency of Capital Markets project was due. We are working on a project where we pick 30 stocks off of the NYSE, and keep a portfolio of them for the next 12 weeks. We have 3 million dollars, and 1 million dollars must be alloted to each stock (for the sake of diversifying our portfolio). However, we have to pick the stocks, get the prices, find the market value, and then add up all of the excess cash and dump it onto another stock, in an attempt to get our excess cash as close to 0 as possible. The goal of the project is to pick good stocks and earn a positive return on our portfolio.
Anyways, enough of that. My class meets Tues & Thurs. Last Thurs, we all agreed to email each other the stocks we picked. Then someone was supposed to put them all together, add up the excess cash, and reinvest it into something. Not really a big deal, assuming that everyone does their job.
*** NEWS FLASH, sorry to interrupt your regular scheduled bitch-fest, however it has recently come to light that there was a shooting approximately one block from my apartment less than an hour ago. In addition, the Sunoco that I stop at daily to buy coffee at no longer has windows that are in-tact. And finally, I must leave for work in less than an hour and walk past this dangerous area en-route to my lovely job at Ghetto Pizza. ******
** I apologize for the interruption, and further apologize that I must go take a shower that I would have had ample time to do this morning if people weren’t assholes. I guess I’ll just have to keep you in suspense now! Stay tuned!!! **