8th Observation!!

Hello Everyone!

Yesterday, Saturday April 17, 2010 I was given the opportunity to speak with Accounting undergraduate senior, Aramentha Aderly. Aramentha is a foreign exchange student from Westmoreland, Jamaica. She is a double major here at Nova which means that she will be graduating at the end of this semester with a Bachelor's degree in Accounting and Finance. Aramentha is also an active member of the accounting club here at Nova. Aramentha also serves the university as a residential advisor for the commons dormitory.

Today, she granted me with the chance to get opinion and advice for the accounting program. We are sitting in a study room on the 3rd floor of the Commons dormitory. As my previous interviews I limited the interview to 4 questions regarding the program.

1. How do you manage the stress that comes with the accounting program?

I manage my time properly and do not overload myself with responsibilities so that don't overwhelm my self. I also make sure to plan out my studying and not leave it for the last week!

2. What challenges do you face being a foreign exchange student?

Probably the biggest challenge is being so far from my family and childhood friends. Another big thing was the cultural change from Jamaica to America. I had to get used to everything from the way class is set up in school to getting around.

3. In your opinion, what would you say was the most difficult class that you have had so far?

Aside from Intermediate 1, where the class is designed to "weed out" the ones who can and those who can not be an accounting major, Federal Taxation was by far the hardest and most stressful class! I say this because the class demands you to think like a lawyer in the sense of thinking of all the possible laws and how small details may or may not qualify a case for a certain law but it also demands accounting related computational problems. The class is about 65% law based and 35% accounting formula based.

4. Briefly describe the way you study.

I study 2 weeks prior to the exam with my study group . We study Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays and Sundays from 2pm to about 6pm. While in our group, we review notes and problems from class and try making up our on problems and consider all the variables that may change how the problem may be handled