Who would have thunk it? Even in b-school being a geek rocks. Not in the “you get all the girls” or “can co-ordinate your body so you don’t trip over yourself” ways but in other ways. For example, when bidding for courses.
First some background. Rotman (like many b-schools) doesn’t do first-come-first-serve electives sign-up, you have to bid. I was allocated 1000 points and needed to sign up for 10 courses. Space in the courses is allocated to the higher bidders and those who don’t bid enough get their alternate choice (maybe).
It really is a fun (yeah you heard me) resource allocation problem. I sat down and cranked out an Excel spreadsheet that would take a bunch of random data they gave us (e.g. how much space is in the course, how many people have expressed interest in the course, etc.), infer a mean bid/standard deviation, and give you a max/min bid. This gives you a good range and you try to bid towards the upper portion.
It paid off, totally. I got all the courses I wanted 
Here are the courses I’m in (links aren’t so great since they don’t have dedicated pages for each course, sorry):
- Corporate Financing
- Management Science
- Entrepreneurship
- Corporate E-biz Strategy
- Real Estate Economics
- Venture Capital
- Mergers & Acquisition
- Technology Strategy
- Financial Management
- Case Analysis & Presentation
I’m not going to go into the reasons for taking these courses—everyone has different reasons and needs.
In conclusion, I rock. I also have Fridays off all year and Mondays off during 1st semester (we don’t do quarters in 2nd year). Yay for 4 day weekends!
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nicely done!
However, isn’t it possible to do up spreadsheets and at least get one girl? The two options aren’t necessarily mutually exclusive.
You just have to come up with an all powerful spreadsheet that will show, upon observation, well beyond a shadow of a doubt, (in the rhetorical ironic sense of hiding a message that only one group – in this case, girls- understands) that you’re natually well endowed.
Of course, you can always just use the spreadsheet to get you rich, then buy a Ferrari too – but that’s cliché.
geek!
We’re all thankful that you’re using your powers for good, and not for evil.
(That we know of.)
You could repurpose that spreadsheet toward determining the number of hours and money required to woo females based on their desire for power, attractiveness and future salary estimate.
NEEEEEEEEEEEEEERD!
When you finish your degree you should publish your work on a website with some javascript to make it easy for other nerds. To access it you should have them answer questions about nerd topics to prove that they are worthy and lazy not just lazy!