Graduation and Week 5

Hey every one and welcome back to the BCB. A reminder to all students that registration for the summer session is now underway and to register as soon as possible in order to insure that you get the classes you want. I cannot tell you how many times i have heard students complain about their schedule because they waited to long to register. I want to apologize for taking so long to post but i am now just coming off my Graduation/Birthday high. As many Berkeley college students know commencement took place last friday April 30th at the IZOD center. A total of 1400 students graduated as the class of 2010 but by my estimate we had about 500 or so in attendance for the ceremony. Despite having that many students the ceremony took only 2 hours and 15 minutes which is outstanding. I remember going to my wife's graduation from LaGuardia Community College which had roughly about the same amount of students and it took over 3 hours to get done so i tip my hat to Student Development and Campus Life.

We have just finished week 5 and are entering the half way point of the Spring semester. Week 6 is usually Midterm week so i wish everyone who is taking a Midterm this week good luck. So far classes have been good so far. Poetry is a really easy Upper Liberal Arts class to take. I would recommend it to anyone that needs to get rid of an Upper Liberal Arts class but are already taking a lot of difficult classes. International economics is an interesting class because there is a lot of stuff going on now that pertain to the class. One of those topics are what is currently going on in Europe with Greece. Greece as a country is practically bankrupt and is soliciting the European Union (EU) for some help. There are a lot of issues that led to Greece's downfall and it is a combination of investing in a lot of public works and countries while not keeping money in the country. What didn't help is they have not been collecting the taxes needed to keep the country afloat. This has spurred a lot of controversy among the EU to solve the issue of helping Greece.

It also just so happen that on the day of class we had the biggest swing in stock prices dropping all the way down by 1000 points before rebounding. That alone opened up a discussion in my class about the volatility of the markets. The next day NASDAQ confirmed that it was not a computer glitch and cancelled all trades that were executed during the time frame when the markets plummeted. It looks like this is going to be even more of an interesting class given the current state of the world markets. Anyway that is all for now i will have a new security post that will be important for all New Yorkers and I will also have some album reviews for Sevendust, Bullet For MY Valentine, Godsmack and Deftones. I will also be going to a Korn concert so i will have all these details for everyone.