Almost that time again.

Final exams are nearly here, and one can almost sense the silence on campus.

There are now more people stopping by my Corporate Finance lectures, well…today, anyway. The professor reviewed for the final today, and will do so some more on Thursday. Usually, there’s only a handful of people who actually attend lectures because they’re at 8 am. And no one likes to wake up early.

For me…I have an exam on Thursday (Statistical Computing), another on Friday (Information Technology), a third on Saturday (Corporate Finance), then lastly, one on next Friday (Forecasting, Time Series, and Regression).

However, because my Forecasting/Time-Series/Regression course has its final exam in two parts: an in-class part, and a take-home part, I’ll be staying all of next week until my last exam is done to finish the take-home part. This is because I don’t want to pay $60 some dollars to get the software myself. So, I have to stay, so I can use the school’s computer labs.

Waiting.

I’m currently on campus, waiting for my TA’s office hours so that I can ask her a question about the take home midterm.

The model that I was able to calculate using SAS had a horrendous R- squared value and I wanted to know if there’s something I have to tweak or if that is the highest value I can get for this data set. Because I did try to use best subsets and stepwise regression to find a better model, but the R-squared value refuses to rise higher than a 70%…approximately.

I haven’t blogged for a while, so this will be my post. Even though not everyone will understand what I just wrote.

Well, today’s a nice day. A lovely cool breeze, bright and sunny. One of the better weather days here on campus.