Monday August 24, 2013
Are you checking the announcements on Black Board? Did you spend the weekend running down the resources posted there under TAMUSA Accounting Resources? I posted two more articles on how to get off to a fast start as an accounting student. All of this is to urge you to become engaged in a daily study of accounting now, not later in the semester.
I spent my first three high school years at one school. Then I moved and finished the senior year at another high school. At KHS we only went to two debate tournaments a year. As a result we had little to no real world experience pitting ourselves against other schools. I never did any better than a 50% win two lose two in the first four rounds of those two tournaments.
AHS however had won the state championship the previous year. The generous budget allowed the school to attend all the debate tournaments, well over a dozen as I would guess. The e coach set the bar . I quickly learned I need to read at least an hour outside our daily class on the subject. And I learned to be far more prepared for the negative or status quo side of the issue. The first tournament was a mere six weeks into school A freshman partner and I won it outright winning al four rounds. That was a first for me. The change took a mere six weeks.
The change was realizing the degree of preparation required for success. The rest of the year I always qualified for the quarter final rounds, and won many extemperaneous and persuasive contests. The difference was preparation, every single day.
I am attempting to pass on that lesson to you regarding the study of accounting. But whether you are Vladimir Horowitz or Phil Mickelson or Mike Phelps the Olympic swimmer or an accounting student here, it's all the same.
As Phelps coach succintly put it, Mike practiced very day of the year, Christmas, New Year's his birthday. If you want to win at this as he put it,
get in the water.
Professor Elam 
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