The Zane Today

  Hello everyone! I hope you've all had a pleasant, and warm week, as well as exciting spring break! I spent mine out in Arizona in the beautiful sun, so coming back to the abysmal winter of North Dakota has been a bit rough. Any way I wanna take the opportunity today to discuss how the American education system needs to adapt to provide the skills we need, not only in public schools, but at the University level as well. When I think back on problems in the American education system the one that stands out to me the most, is the lack of flexibility within the system. There are millions of children in schools in the United States right now, and a majority of these students receive the exact same education, regardless of weather or not it works for that student. We are taught from a young age to go to school, work for four hours, take a thirty minute lunch break, then go back to work for the rest of the day. This schedule is exactly how office jobs work, but in some ways starting peo...

Welcome back Friends! It has been a long two weeks since my last post, and I hope no one was itching for a post last week, but I am here now. It has been a rough and cold couple weeks for us North Dakotan's, so I hope that other places have been better. Today I would like to discuss how absorbing the world around you can benefit your social and professional life in a number of ways. Being more aware can create a happier life and make you more aware of your surroundings. I took the time today to just sit down and absorb the world around me. I just sat still for 15 minutes and looked around the room, while focusing on my breathing, clearing my head, and blocking out any distractions. This isn't the first time I have done such a thing, since the start of this spring semester I have taken more time to fully empty my head and look at the world from a different perspective, taking time to focus on the beauty in the small parts of the world is an important part of searching for what m...

Hello all! Welcome to my personal opinion on if money can buy you happiness. Again this is my point of view on the topic, so it is going to be biased perspective, but a little insight on why this is a topic I wanted to discuss this topic. I am a finance major, so money is something I will fairly consistently deal with through out my professional career, I am also very interested in psychology, as I am getting my minor in managerial psychology, and I am also a human in 2023, so I spend money everyday of my life. Recently I decided to make the investment and buy a vacuum. I live on campus at NDSU, so normally you just check one out form the front desk at your residence hall when you need to vacuum, which I did, but they are very poor vacuums, so on impulse I bought a four-hundred dollar vacuum marked down to two-hundred-fifty dollars form best buy. Through this whole process one of my roommates was experiencing it first hand, he thought that it was ridiculous that I would buy a brand new...

Source:  Online Course Concerns I have now been a student at NDSU for roughly eighteen months (3 semesters) and taken a wide variety of classes, twenty-three different classes to be exact. Of those twenty-three I have taken, ten of them have been online courses, so I would also say I have a decent amount of experience with Online courses. Today I am going to break down the varieties of online classes I have taken, briefly go over what subjects I found easier, which classes gave out heavier work loads, and weather or not I would recommend taking certain classes online or, in an uncomfortable chair with a professors guidance. Maybe in some ways this will provide insight to someone just starting their college education who hasn't experienced what an online class at a University is like. Before I dig in I would like to mention that online classes are not ideal for everyone, and some people my hate my opinion, and that's okay. Sometimes you just need the in person class to tie you d...

As 2022 has just ended there are many major financial reports for a wide variety of companies that have already released and are in the process of being released in the coming weeks. When spending most of your time in finance classes, as well as making some of your own investments, these statements tend to come up a lot this time of year. With that I had to do some work with Best Buys annual report and Financial Statements, so today I would like to take the time to break it down and talk about it briefly with you all.  Best Buy starts off their annual report the same as most, with a message from their CEO, Corie Barry. She starts by addressing the record breaking year that the company had in 2022 and continues right into the main points of what the course of action for 2023 is. Best buy has been the main retailor of the latest technology for the past 20 years, ever since Radio Shack fizzled off in the late 2000's. Their continual surge as the leader in the technological retail mark...

Welcome to the first entry of The Zane Today. I'd like to take this opportunity to give my readers a little insight to who I am and what this blog is all about. I am Zane Sprynczynatyk, a 19 year old college student at North Dakota State University. I am currently in the process of completing my bachelors degree in Finance with a minor in managerial psychology, but given the opportunity I would like to pursue a gradates degree as well. Most of my spare time is currently used up by my job at Gate City Bank as a Teller, but I also like going to the gym to lift and play basketball, as well as play video games when I get the opportunity. I am an avid Minnesota sports fan, I never miss a Vikings game, and when I have the time I watch the Timberwolves and Twins as well.  My interest in the topic of Finance originates from my fascination with numbers, from my early years of school I have always enjoyed math as a subject. In elementary school in my spare time I would write my own basic mat...