BESS Thread

Bartronilic wrote:

Thanks for everyone's help! I've decided to do the 5 subjects I'd need for single hons business, single hons economics or joint honour bus + economics.

Wise choice. Even if you end up hating one of the subjects(as I did with business) you still wont regret it. Good luck.

Right_Side wrote:

Whats the book review and group report like?

I'm going to do Accounting. Whats that like?

Is there not two other finance courses on top of Applied Finance on offer in 4th year?

If I could, I would do AF in 4th year after your advice but I don't want to do Marketing, OB&C or HR so if I want to do joint honours I have to do it next year.

the book review consists of a 3000 word review on two books from a selected reading list. there all finance based novels, see when genuis failed: the rise and fall of long term capital management; american sucker; the pied pipers of wall street. there all available in the library so should be accesible enough. its not that bad at all, the avg was 69.9 so im not complaining!

the company report is a 3 person group project. its not that bad either, well i didnt find that so. its based on the financial position of a company, so its just ratios and a bit of analysis. we were given a good sample report sp its was a good guideline. both assignments were due on the same day this year which was a bit of a bitch, the company report was like 32 pages long but thats because there are lots of tables and stuff! think next year he will give on each term, so it should be more manageable.

patsy mccabes accounts is a bit hit and miss. if u like accounting you shouldnt have too many problems. i like, sitting close to a 2.1 avg so thats not too bad! his final exam should be nice enough, check the past papers to see what i mean. similar questions from year to year

in 4th year theres 3 financy courses: AP(the 3rd year one), financial markets and the corporate sector(business) and economics of securities markets(econ). dont know much about them other than the financial markets course doesn't exactly follow on from the applied finance course, or so i hear!

jesus, this post is going on too long!

Do you still use begg for macroeconomics? Im racking my brain trying to think of advice to give for jf bess but I really cant remember a bloody thing. I remeber the maths was harder then I expected(given the easiness of the christmas test) and everything else was easier then expected(bus was about as expected. Its pretty predictable, know the readings you cant go wrong). I really think my excessive consumption alchohol on the day/night/following day/following night I finished the exams has wiped all recollection of the previous week from my mind.

Babybing wrote:

Do you still use begg for macroeconomics?

I think they use the same text for Micro and Macro now: Parkin and Powell or something like that...?

gilroyb wrote:

I really liked Mankiw, excellently structured I thought. Never used Begg, it was on the reading list, but I never used it.

Sorry to hear Ruane is going, thought she was a great lecturer. Very engaging and kept you on your toes. I thought Mankiw was great, Id never done economics before and it gives a great and very interesting introduction. Begg was a horrible book though, nearly destroyed any interst I had in the subject of economics. First years are lucky they got rid of it. Has everybody got there course choices in?

PS I see "Operations Star" Certificates are being handed out tommorow for management 1. That brings me back to primary school:)

to be allowed sit a repeat in most courses you must have at least atteneded your first exam unless youve a med cert or something afaik anyhoo...

Hahaha thats a fantastic point gilroyb - yeah that sort of mistake would severely damage any argument in relation to globalisation alright

If you happen to be talking for or against the increased nature of interconnectedness among societies, the word is globalisation. If you are trying to argue that it doesn't exist, spelling it with a z kind of ruins your arguement. If you're trying to say it does exist but just adds to cultures, then again spelling it with a z hurts your arguement.

I understand the first half (and hee! That's among the funnier mistakes you could make. Or else I just have an intensely sad sense of humour), but the latter makes no sense to me. If you're arguing that globalization has destroyed the nation state (which seems to be the type of question we're getting this year) and completely subsumed our culture, then surely using the Americanized spelling only helps to prove your argument? (hell, you could even call attention to it in the essay to show you know what you're doing when you spell it that way). Especially when all of our Political Science notes are spelled with a 'z'. (I'd check sociology, but that would require hunting through my e-mail and I don't have the energy right now)

Blasted google!

I'm a purist anyhow - never shall i smell Sulfur! :P anyone who can't understand the idea of a "ph" sounds doesnt deserve my time

You mean sulphur is spelt with an f in America? That's just wrong! :eek: American spelling is just silly, why the hell would you spell pyjamas with an a and not a y? It's not that hard to understand. :rolleyes:

Sulfur is NOT internationally recognised. I think the British school system may have possibly "standardised", as they put it when the issue came up, by now, but it is most definitely not internationally recognised.

also aluminum drives me spare.

That teacher used to say to me that, if I were working in a large international chemical company or the like, people wouldn't know what I was talking about, if I used the word sulphur. I say that stinks like hydrogen sulphide.

Hermione* wrote:

Hmm, in my physics class, it was sulphur. But then my teacher was a past pupil of the school, so obviously she's had a good enough education to avoid such foolishness.

Well, my teacher was a clever man, but he had what one might term eccentricities.

Actually that really annoys me. cant believe ISS didn't think to set it properly.

shay_562 wrote:

I understand the first half (and hee! That's among the funnier mistakes you could make. Or else I just have an intensely sad sense of humour), but the latter makes no sense to me. If you're arguing that globalization has destroyed the nation state (which seems to be the type of question we're getting this year) and completely subsumed our culture, then surely using the Americanized spelling only helps to prove your argument? (hell, you could even call attention to it in the essay to show you know what you're doing when you spell it that way). Especially when all of our Political Science notes are spelled with a 'z'. (I'd check sociology, but that would require hunting through my e-mail and I don't have the energy right now)

Well generally sociologists aren't the biggest fans of globalisation, so by spelling it with a z you're basically saying you're just giving in to the evil capitalists without a fight. A few political 'scientists' are fans of capitalism, but of those that are they generally still hate America, so it's best not to remind them of something they hate while their correcting your exam.

Black_Couch wrote:

Does anybody know what an LLB is or something like it? I heard u can do an extra year and end up with a law degree after you get your original ba or bbs etc., surely this can't be true? Considering people spend a full 4 years studying to get a law degree.

I never heard of this. I suppose if you did exceptionally well in the Law components of BESS, you might be considered for admission to an LL.M., but it seems unlikely, given how little Law is in BESS.

Black_Couch wrote:

Does anybody know what an LLB is or something like it? I heard u can do an extra year and end up with a law degree after you get your original ba or bbs etc., surely this can't be true? Considering people spend a full 4 years studying to get a law degree.

I presume that it's the conversion course in DIT rather than a course within Trinity. It's available to all who have received a(n honours) degree I think. Remember though, a law degree doesn't get you to the bar or qualify one as a solicitor.