MB-Eish: Part 16: 15

**"Eish" is a South African slang term expressing surprise, dismay, anger or frustration.** 

As I mentioned two years ago, I have joined the droves of engineers who have sold out to the dark side: Banking (and more recently, the elite league of the dark side: Asset Management). To make myself more comfortable in my new, murky surrounds I have decided to do an MBA part-time. This is the sixteenth in a series of posts about my MBA experience.

15 days to go. 

I am still gathering data and other people have handed in drafts! Oh, the life of a PROcrastinator. As usual there is no choice but to suck it up and keep moving, slowly picking up the pace everyday. Hopefully I will finish on a high as always.

For now I feel like I'm wading through syrup with this data. Not to bore you with the details, but I'm covering something that requires me to extract environmental and other touchy-feely stats from companies' sustainability reports. To my surprise and dismay, companies largely suck at sustainability reporting. It easily takes an hour to find one data point. My total study requires 600 data points at least. Screwed, I tell you. 

Instead of gathering data, yesterday I spent a few hours reviewing my sample. I am making an executive decision to ditch entire sectors of the stock exchange because the reporting sucks. I need to get something out in the next 15 days and at this pace it's not going to be worth reading.  

At least the work break starts in less than 24 hours. And then I'm not leaving the house except to buy red bull or see my supervisor. Or to buy more candy.