Finance formulas

I will quote my finance lecturer. Today he was explaining rather complex formulas about exchange rates. Most of the class was lost. Seeing that his time is up, he silently said in a friendly tone:

"These formulas you have to know. Learn them by heart, if necessary; understand, if possible".

The quote reveales a good deal about students in the class and their understanding of the subject.

A herd of elephants

Few days ago in a lecture I had a vision. Professor was talking something about something, which is soooo important to somebody and then the ironic vision hit my mind. The vision reflects my perception of how the professors come up with their topics and how they try to articulate it to us, students...

...imagine a herd of elephants (i.e.big companies) walking with pride in savannah from one patch of grass to another, from one water pond to another (i.e. profit opportunities). Nearby you can see a bunch of nature scientists (i.e.business academia) following the elephants, inspecting their tracks, gathering excrements and following elephants' all the way.
At the end of each day the scientists analyze data, think a lot, draw conclusions, rise assumpotions and hypotheses. Later on they will try to teach elephants how to find a better way around savannah and where to find a bigger pond of water or a patch of grass. However elephants won't lisen much to the scientists. They just go to the next water pond or a patch of grass.

Then scientists would decide to errect special schools and universities, where they, instead of teaching elephants, would rather teach special kind of people, namely students.
The students are yet neither elephants nor scientists. But later they can become one of these.
Interestingly, it is very difficult to become an elephant without attending the classes given by scientists...

That was my vision while listening to one of the *scientists* talking about *elephants* of the savannah. If you still feel the taste of a dry and academic business lecture, you will understand the allegory.

My terrible Baltic accent

It is not a big discovery, rather a confirmation of what I already suspected for many years:

Now I am sure that I have a terrible Baltic accent, because of the event today:
My coursemate from Peru approached me in the toilet, said "Hello, are you from Lithuania? I figured that out from your accent."

Explanation: he had a Lithuanian roommate some year ago. That's how he learnt the accent.

Discover zucchini

Talking about discoveries, today I discovered...no, not the presidential election results. Today I discovered courgette. Or zucchini. Or cukinija. Or Cucurbita pepo in latin. That's a vegetable. Big green cucumber.

It tastes great when fried on a pan. With some meat, some eggs maybe, butter and definitely salt n pepper. Its very easy to prepare - just peal and cut. So, try it. I recommend.