I'm still in Wellington (and if you read my LJ you would know why) but marketing assignment results have came out and I got a...

It is never ending!! I've just recieved today my second 103 assignment. It's oral and done it pairs. My half dosn't even like marketing!! We are given a sheet with 8 questions to research so we split it in half. I'm doing:

1. "Subcultures are often studied to give researchers an insight into consumption practises - why are the useful examples of the role of consumption in consumers lives?"
2. "Atmospherics are of vital importance in any servicescape. How might atompsheric elements be used to manipulate consumption in the retail setting?"
3. "Explain why we study perceptions in consumption behaviour and provide examples of how top-down processing is used in marketing?"
4. "Evaluate the use of demographic segmentation, particulary the limitations compared to psychographic segmentation"

An idea that struck me when reading number 2 was a story that Keely told me about how she went to work one day and decided to have popcorn for dinner so she cooked it and put it underneath the counter till her break. They almost sold all their popcorn that night. She works at a video store by the way, I don't know why they wouldn't do that all the time. It would invoke peoples feelings of cuddling up on the couch with a bowl of popcorn with a good movie. That idea well and truly has been sold to us consumers. Since her boss is in financial doo doo it might help.

However, since I'm not going to be here these holidays (my flight leaves before 10am on Saturday morning and returns after 5pm the following Sunday) it's going to make it very aquward meeting up with my half to discuss the answers. Since my mark partly depends on her she had better do a good job! Lol I don't do team work very well, I'm going to be well annoyed if she dosn't do a good job. We are presenting it the first Monday after the break and our pair is at 2.20pm.

I've a tonne of work to do this break as well. I've got 2 exams to study for, although with economics plussage applies so I could just not turn up. But I want to know how I'm doing. My Accounting exam is the day after my economics exam, great T_T because I need 35%+ in that exam in order to get terms, and thus sit the finance exam. I've also got this assignment to do for marketing. I was thinking about going home to study but it's just too freaking cold but the library is nice and warm and closes at 11pm so I can just make my way to the bus stop and take a bus home.

Management lecture was interesting, the computer froze and so our lecturer called up the tech and then made him apologise to us because the computer was wasting the time that we had paid for. I actually felt sorry for the guy. I would have hated to have worked under this lecturer he sounds like an ass. It was his stupid video that made the computer have a heart attack in the first place.

So I've checked and the only tutorial I have that isn't weekly is 103 which is marketing. This is both good and bad. It's good because I'm not going to get bored with the amount of time that I'm going to have as tutorials need preperation and certain problems attempted etc. However, it's bad because 101, 104 and 105 (thats accounting and finance, economics and management) all start really early on in the case of 101 a thursday morning and the rest on a friday and it's too late to change. Hmm oh well I suppose me being up early isn't such a bad thing...

The Sims on PSP is taking over my life. I wish I could use that $350 I'm getting from the taxman to buy that PSP, however I need to use it for getting my things up to Wellington. I only came down here with a suitcase of things and some how I've managed to aquire at least a couple more suitcases worth of stuff. I'm soooo excited about moving. Like it's almost all I think about - when I'm not thinking about playing the sims hahaha. Oh yeah I made my sims into a lesbian couple <3 with a dog (it's the sims pets btw) sooo sterotypical. It made me laugh heaps. Maybe I can make them polygymous? polyamours?

P.A.S.S (peer assisted study sessions) looks really good. Our guys name is Mitchell lol (my surname is Mitchell) hopefully tommrrow he can explain to me what the hell I'm supposed to be doing with these financial statements. Honestly I attempted the question about them in the textbook and it was just WOOSH over my head. Management is friggin boring, Economics is quite hard but interesting and Marketing is more like psychology.

I'm having butter chicken tonight if the fridge hasn't re-frozen my chicken.

I'm trying to work on my 103 assignment as it's due on the 8.8.08 (wow that shouldnt be hard to remember) and so far its going okay. Sometimes I wish that we had more than 2 BSNS103 lectures per week because I need a bit more theory in order to properly analyze my consumer choice. I know there is more that went into me buying my WACOM GRAPHIRE4 TABLET 6X5 (mines exactly the same as that except it's black) than I realized but because these ideas havent been introduced to me yet I can't consider them. Did that make sense?  -sigh- I know I can really get my teeth into the assignment too! So far all I have to be discussed and analyzed is:
Display of goods (part of the "7 deadly sins" of consumerism), Repuation from refferals and creation of identity. I guess it's back to the textbook for me. I'm not sure if doing my tablet is a good choice because most people have never seen one before let alone know what it is but it's the one thing I've brought that I put a lot of thought into. Not even my laptop had this much thought going into it.

I have a 101 tutourial tommrow morning at 9am in Chemistry 3. Chemistry 3 is the whole damn building of all 6 floors! I guess I will be looking around for quite a while then.

edit 11.25am 18 July
okay so Chemistry 3 isn't the whole building it's a small room just down from the 1st year chemistry labs on the 1st floor in Science I. Funny how it dosn't say "this way to Science I" on the signs. Oh no! It says "Undergraduate Labs this way" Stupid friggin signage.