GDT: Flames at Canes: The drive to ninth, day drinking edition

[DaveG]

That would be nice but you know the Canes.....late season push to finish 9th or 10th in the east and screw up the draft pick here we come.

And even if we don't, with this draft it's "meh, so we have the #3 pick (because we never get nice things) what's the big deal?"

 

[HisIceness]

Pretty sure Vegas is getting the 3rd pick this year, are they not? Seems like every mock draft has them picking #3.

 

[DaveG]

Pretty sure Vegas is getting the 3rd pick this year, are they not? Seems like every mock draft has them picking #3.

Pre-lottery they're in the #3 slot

 

[Tryamw]

My understanding is their draft roll is as if they had the third worst record of all the teams but they still have to have a Ball (lottery) or the like.

 

[HisIceness]

Understood. Thanks guys.

 

[Navin R Slavin]

Didn't waste my time. Feel good about that choice.

 

[Carolinas Identity*]

Sunday afternoon home games are the worst.

no, 8 am chemistry classes are

 

[Carolinas Identity*]

so do i go ahead and make our annual bandwagon draft thread now?

 

[raynman]

no, 8 am chemistry classes are

I had 8 am physics classes during the summer session and I didn't think I could get much worse than that. Until I started taking a robotics course this semester on Mondays at 8 am. It's not the course subject, the professor could put someone in the middle of a Raleigh meth binge to sleep.

 

[Joe McGrath]

no, 8 am chemistry classes are

I'll see your 8 am chemistry class and raise you 8 am microeconomics classes.

 

[Carolinas Identity*]

I'll see your 8 am chemistry class and raise you 8 am microeconomics classes.

I'm all in on the 8 am "Theory of Knowledge" class I took as a Senior in high school.

 

[Joe McGrath]

I'm all in on the 8 am "Theory of Knowledge" class I took as a Senior in high school.

I'll call with 7:45 religion class titled "Death & Dying" after 5:00 AM hockey practice.

 

[Finnish Jerk Train]

I will buy a beer for anybody who can top an 8 AM individual income tax class. And that was the second time I took it.

The first time I took it was over the summer of 2006. That is a terrible class to have on a compressed schedule, and I got distracted by a hockey team who had a long playoff run. I wound up with a C-, which was the worst grade I ever got in college. The second-worst was a C+, which was in the same class the second time around. I gave up after that and avoided the tax department when I went into public accounting.

 

[Lempo]

I will buy a beer for anybody who can top an 8 AM individual income tax class. And that was the second time I took it.

The first time I took it was over the summer of 2006. I got distracted by a hockey team who had a long playoff run and wound up with a C-.

I once tried attending 8 AM Business Income Tax Law calculation practice class after staying awake all night. I would nod off time to time, my pencil would continue proceed to draw a black dot that I'd have to erase after nodding back to this world.

I never passed that course.

 

[Lempo]

Wait, what? We are all smart? Go figure.

 

[Finnish Jerk Train]

Wait, what? We are all smart? Go figure.

We are all equal. Some of us are just more equal than others.

 

[Navin R Slavin]

Wait, what? We are all smart? Go figure.

Not smart enough to be tax preparers, evidently.

 

[Joe McGrath]

Not smart enough to be tax preparers, evidently.

I prepared taxes early in my career. It's not difficult with the proper software, so long as you don't have too many complex issues.

Or I'm just really smart....

 

[Lempo]

Not smart enough to be tax preparers, evidently.

Nah, it was one of those courses. Twelve people attended at the first exam date, if I remember correctly only one of them passed. I was in very early phases of my studies and still finding myself, and decided then that I didn't find myself from Tax Law.

 

[Navin R Slavin]

It's just funny that multiple people crashed and burned in tax classes.

My equivalent experience would have been Chaucer.

 

[Finnish Jerk Train]

I think it's one of those things that's a lot harder in the classroom than in the real world. Or maybe our professor sucked.

A lot of my problem was having to do it by hand and remembering all the rules during the test. Half of the things we were tested on are pretty rare on an average Joe's tax return; all of them are aided by software in any modern setting, but they were still teaching us the old way. I have no problem doing my own taxes, but everything ran together in my mind when I was trying to learn all possible scenarios from a book (especially in a one-month period) and write it all out on paper.

I've since learned that my learning style isn't always linear, which is especially true with something that has so many rabbit holes. Looking at the tax department's workpapers, I felt like if I ever actually did it for a living, I'd be good at it because I'd have good tools to help. Having people check my work and teaching me the important stuff along the way helps too. But I like the financial side of things better anyway.

Corporate tax was fine because they don't have half the shenanigans that individuals have.

 

[the halleJOKEL]

i did science but now i do business

 

[Buenos Necas]

My favorite professors were for my tax courses, so probably why I ended up working in tax over audit/advisory

 

[Boom Boom Apathy]

When I took an economics class in college, the professor came in the 1st day and without saying a word, started writing on the white board at the front. As soon as he filled it, he erased and started again. This happened 3-4 times and when he erased it the last time, he introduced himself and said nothing about what he had written and never mentioned it again...UNTIL

When he handed out the final exams, he said: "For those of you that took notes of what I wrote on the board on day 1, this exam will be easy as I wrote the questions and answers to this final exam."

Needless to say, very few, if any students had written that down, or if they did, remembered it at all.

 

[Finnish Jerk Train]

My favorite professors were for my tax courses, so probably why I ended up working in tax over audit/advisory

Yeah, we had one full-time individual income tax professor. I can't even remember who taught corporate... it might have been her. She was OK, but nobody's favorite. I think it's pretty telling that a sizable majority (at least 2/3, if not 3/4) of our accounting majors wound up in audit. Looking back, she wasn't very good at explaining the underlying concepts and the reasons for the rules, which for me is half the battle in understanding what I'm doing.

I only remember one other professor who did individual. He was some local CPA who had a small practice, only taught part time, and was mostly there to get the benefits.