Pre-Reg for SKB.

What could this blog title possibly mean? Well my friends, it's that time of the semester to start thinking about next semester. Pre-registration is all this week here at CMC, so I thought I'd give you an inside look at what goes on and some classes I've picked out for the Ski and Snowboard Business Program (SKB).

For the fall semester, in regards to ski and snowboard specific classes, I'm currently taking Marketing and Media, where my group designed and marketed a website showing handrails and backcountry spots around Steamboat Springs for skiers and snowboarders to hit. We actually need to start getting some hits to our site so I'm going to throw out a little shameless promotion here. The website is steamboatstash.com and if you're in or coming to the Steamboat Area, it could be very informational for you (I made the videos page, except we don't exactly have any videos up yet).

But now that that's out of the way, the other ski and snowboard specific class I'm taking this semester is Snowsports Retail and Wholesale where we learn what it takes to open and operate and ski and snowboard retail and rental shop. We are currently in the process of starting our final project which is to write a business plan for a potential store, including layout and everything (Speaking of which, I should really get started on that).

Don't worry though, I am taking more than two classes this semester. The other ones I'm taking are courses from the business program here at CMC that have been included in the Ski and Snowboard Business program to give you a well rounded education. The other classes I'm taking are Intro to Sustainable Business, which is just an intro to business class with a green emphasis since in the coming years there's going to be a big change in the way businesses operate because of the global warming crisis. The other classes I'm in right now are Principles of Macroeconomics, Intro to PC Applications, and College 101, which is a course that pretty much teaches you about what to expect in college.

Now for the coming semester. After going to a local bookstore with my friend Nate and taking quite a long time to pick out the perfect schedule in order to balance the ridiculous amount of snowboarding I'm going to do and leave enough time for homework, I filled out the registration form, got it signed by the SKB advisor and head professor Mike Martin, and got my classes the first day possible to make sure I would get the greatest schedule ever.

As it stands, I don't have class til 2:30pm on Monday and Wednesday, and not til 4:00pm Tuesday and Thursday, and no class whatsoever on Friday. On top of that, I got into the class I've been most looking forward to, Product Design. In this class, you get into groups, come up with an idea for either a ski or snowboard company, and design all the specs and graphics of it. Then, for the midterm, you present your project to the judges, they pick a winner, and the winning groups board or skis actually get made. This class is going to be pretty much perfect for me since I want to start a snowboard company and this classes teached you how to make snowbaords.

The other SKB classes I have next semester are Accelerated Ski and Board Repair and Tuning, which is just a faster version of the normal tuning and repair class, and Snowsports Promotions, which is only one weekend long, and discusses different promotion strategies within the snowsports world.

The rest of my awesome schedule is filled by English Composition 1, Business Communications and Report Writing (which I'm not to excited about, I don't even know what I'm going to be doing in that class but it just sounds rough), and Principles of Microeconomics to get a full cover of the basics of economics.

So that's just a quick look into what the classes are like in CMC Alpine Campus's Ski and Snowboard Business program. If it sounds like something you want to do, I highly recommend coming out here for it, because besides gnarly hills, this town/school is a really fun place to be and I can only imagine how much better it will be once I'm out of the sling and riding that Champagne Powder. Peace.