I usually do not look forward to going to class, but my finance 301 course has me excited. The way the professor described it, this will be what I call a “path-finding” class.
“Path-finding” is something I discovered with stoicheometry in chemistry class. It also appears in geometry and symbolic logic. Basically, it consists of being given a starting point and a destination. It is your job to find the path between the two.
In stoicheometry, you are given chemicals to combine. Then you have to figure out what and how much product the reaction will produce. In geometry and symbolic logic, your job is to use theorems and corrolaries to prove something. The path is what theorems to use and what order to use them.
It appears in this finance class, I will be given a situation and have to figure out what equations to use and what information to input into them.
I love path-finding.