I don’t understand finance and I’m trying to take a midterm exam on finance.  It’s so bad that if I hear IRR and NPV in the same sentence, my brain goes into shutdown mode.  That could be why I don’t understand finance.  This weekend, I have:

• Downed over 10 cups of coffee.  I’m about to make a fresh pot now.
• Emailed my professor with questions over 10 times.  To the point where he replied: “Both of these questions are things that we have covered in class. I cannot do the exam for you.”  To be fair, I was asking him if my approach/interpretation of the problem was correct, which was probably a bit too much detail.
• Learned more about finance through Investopedia and the textbook than the professor’s stinkin’ notes and slides.
• Banged head on keyboard – multiple times.
• Checked Facebook just to read everyone else’s complaints and make myself feel better.
• Checked Sephora.com for some Internet-window-shopping therapy.
• Complained to a certain few people about my predicament.  Every other sentence that comes out of my mouth is, “what the eff?!?!”