As a master student in the field of sport management,  of which class is just a very small part. Hence, I've just finished my first week's classes, now take a break and turn into reading tomorrow.

 

Talking of classes, let me introduce my other 2 courses, which is called 'Statistics' and 'Business Research Method'. Both are field-related, not general courses.

 

In the former one, we have to master statistical theories combined with SPSS and SAS to analyze datas from which we want to have some results. It is also life-related, for example, we analyzed a group of data today, to determine how long will people live after their cancer become active. It is useful.

 

The latter one, research method, we will study how to research something. There maybe many theories, and it will use some statistical methods. The most attractive part of this course is to teach us how to make a predictive research. This is what we want. Because in sport industry, even a small factor could effect the whole. So managers have to predict how these factors work.

 

That's all for today. HOPE EVERYONE OF YOU HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND! THANK Y'ALL! 

My 1st Class: Sports Marketing

Instructor: Dr. Bennett (a baseball coach)

 

He said, sports business is all about marketing. That may be true, due to commercialization & globalization nowadays.

 

In this course, we have a lot to do, also, a lot of fun, I think. Since he is a baseball coach, we may concern more in the field of baseball when raising cases. Today, each of the class was asked to make a simple introduction and tell its favourite athletes. From their mouths, I only know David Beckham, Michael Jordan and Yao Ming (which is said by myself)... Others are mostly in the field of Baseball and Football. I realize these common knowledge (for Americans) possibly is the key to break ice with classmates. Hence, I have a lot to learn, not only the theories but those common knowledge as well.

 

Speak of fun, I think Dr. Bennett is a cool but humorous professor, sometimes he speaks just like David Letterman.

 

In all, since sport management is a challenging but promising field, anything could happen. All I need to do, is to learn, to try hard to catch up with others (I feel I really fell behind), and to seize every opportunity that may facilitate me to learn and to survive.

 

Take care y'all (I was told this word is a kind of Texan English, people here do not say 'you all', but y'all. And they usually say 'Howdy' instead of 'Hello/Hi'. Is that interesting?)

 

 

赴美的旅途不太舒坦，从广州起飞至到达学校用了超过30小时，相当艰辛！

到学校的时间是中部时间凌晨3点。。。我和Frank匆忙入住International Hostel。。。

 

睡了几个小时，一早就起来去找房子了。之前Joyce已经租好了一间，我和Frank就计划在附近租一间，大家有个照应。结果那个社区只剩一间2/1的房子了，看过样板后，我和Frank决定拿下。刚填Application, 就来了几个印度人想租房子，还好我们先来了一步，要不然就要再费点功夫去找房子了。。。不过要过几天才能入住，房子在重新粉刷。我们得暂时寄人篱下咯。。。

 

昨晚就在Joyce和Cherry家煮食，呵呵，过了一把大厨瘾~

 

来这里两天，觉得如果没有车，实在不行，这地方基本没有TAXI，白天相当热，烈日当空。。。所以我会尽快买车，先买两轮的！

 

还有，这里的食物真垃圾。。。从上飞机开始。。。就开始怀念中国的食物了。。。所以还是尽量在家里煮，经济实惠而且口味也合适。

 

暂时一切都好，大家无需担心，也希望大家过得快乐健康，这年头，一定要快乐！呵呵