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My Kaplan University Experience

Scott Davis is a 37-year-old management professional from Austin, Texas. He comes from an engineering, management, and support background, and has worked for some of the largest corporations. He also has experience in the world of start-ups. Employers include Dell Computer Corporation, UUNET Technologies, Wayport, and Time Warner Cable. Scott is also on the advisory board of EFF-Austin.

Scott started his degree program in 2003, and had no prior college credit before jumping into the distance learning environment. He graduated in October 2007 having attained an A.A.S. in Information Systems and a Bachelor of Science in Management from Kaplan University.

Scott is now a MBA student at Norwich University.

Scott welcomes feedback and questions. Feel free to email him at sdavis (at) WheelCipher.net or visit his web site at http://www.ScottDavis.info


Hurry Up and Wait

I submitted my application to Norwich University late last week.  It was a pretty involved process.  Items required included the following:

Application and $50.00 fee
Admissions essay
Current resume
Three letters of recommendation
My undergrad transcripts

As I stated in a previous post, the problem I was running in to was that the deadline for applications at Norwich and the final day of classes at Kaplan happened to be the same day.

The good folks at Norwich gave me a small extension since this was the case, and after busting my hump to get all of my work done in plenty of time, it looks like Kaplan will send my transcripts to Norwich sometime this week.

Now that the final grades are in for my last three classes, I will share those with you:

Advanced Career Development Strategies: 98.7%
Web Marketing and E-Commerce: 96.2%
Bachelors Capstone in Management: 95.2%

That should do some good to my otherwise high 3.56 GPA.

In an effort to get everything done, I worked for 3 and a half days with about 6 hours sleep.  I made myself sick doing so.  I came down with a bad viral infection.  But what I got accomplished was pretty amazing.  I am still trying to get back in the groove of work and life.  That illness really set me back mentally and physically.

I got a 56-page report done, a couple of 16-page reports done, an 8-page report done, and some other miscellaneous duties that were required of me in order to finish all of my classes.  One of the most taxing was the chore of setting up a true e-commerce site with the capability for the instructor to go in, see products, and buy them.  It took several hours of coding to do that.  I got it done, though!

In the mean time, I plan on doing some much-needed catching up on reading.  For my birthday, I received the following books:

Basic Economics: A Citizens Guide to the Economy
By Thomas Sowell

More Sex Is Safer Sex: The Unconventional Wisdom of Economics
By Steven E. Landsburg

Freedomnomics: Why the Free Market Works and Other Half-Baked Theories Don’t
By John Lott Jr.

The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century
By Thomas Friedman

Until I hear something, I am just kicking back and relaxing, and trying to get my mind and body back in the game.

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Published Monday, October 29, 2007 4:09 PM by WheelCipher
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Comments

 

henryw said:

Congratulations, Scott!  

Norwich is a good school, but I really don't know a thing about their MBA program. But it IS graduate school so expect to read and write more in the next 18 months than you did cumulatively over the past four years [;-)]   And it is B-school so ignore all the egomaniacs racing for their  'yuppie green card' and concentrate on 1) basic concepts, analysis and arguments and 2) networking (the 'people' kind, not CS/iT).    

I have not read that Landsburg title, but if it's as well written as his 'Macroeconomics' it's in good company with the other three.   This is WAY too much 'economics' for my taste, but there are two more that go a long way to balance and supplement what you've got - Heidi and Alvin Toffler's 'Revolutionary Wealth' and Hernando de Soto's 'The Mystery of Capitalism.'  

October 30, 2007 12:48 AM
 

Victoria said:

Hope you are feeling better soon, Scott. There's nothing like sickness to force a person to take it easy (I had mono this summer).

October 30, 2007 10:26 AM
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About WheelCipher

Scott is a manager for a large media, communications, and Internet company in Austin, Texas. He's been in that position since June 2001. He has experience in the high-technology industry in management, engineering, and support positions with Dell Computer Corporation, UUNET Technologies, Wayport and others.

Scott started his degree program in 2003, and had no prior college credit before jumping into the distance learning environment. He graduated in October 2007 having attained an A.A.S. in Information Technology and a B.S. in Management from Kaplan University.

He is now a MBA student at Norwich University

Scott maintains his own blog at ScottDavis.info where he talks about business, education, politics, technology and society.

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WheelCipher

Scott is a manager for a large media, communications, and Internet company in Austin, Texas. He's been in that position since June 2001. He has experience in the high-technology industry in management, engineering, and support positions with Dell Computer Corporation, UUNET Technologies, Wayport and others.

Scott started his degree program in 2003, and had no prior college credit before jumping into the distance learning environment. He graduated in October 2007 having attained an A.A.S. in Information Technology and a B.S. in Management from Kaplan University.

He is now a MBA student at Norwich University

Scott maintains his own blog at ScottDavis.info where he talks about business, education, politics, technology and society.

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