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I don’t think I’ve ever really said much about it before but
I figured that since I blogged about 2 guys who were diagnosed as having
learning disabilities and being “notable failures” in history I would go ahead
and make tonight about my own personal learning disability. My learning disability has been ...
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When I first started my MBA program I was terrified of the
mathematics portion. In fact on my very
first quantitative methods exam I made a 30%.
That’s a 30% out of a 100%. I
felt so crappy and so much like a failure I actually discussed dropping out of
the program with my wife in lieu of simply settling for an MSM ...
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My last blog post was all about how I have 19 weeks left in
my MBA program before I’m done. Truth be
told, as of Tuesday next week, I have 18 weeks.
I am looking to go into the job market full time in the search for new
employment as soon as I graduate but as far as academically I’m just not sure
what is coming ...
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I can hardly believe it. Here I am looking at the schedule for my next class and realize that I have only 3 courses left. Including this week which is half way over I have 19 weeks left of school and then I’m home free. I am wondering about the commencement ceremony though. It will be in mid December in Iowa. I ...
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This week wasn’t all that bad. The assignment was only a 3 page essay,
excluding references of course, which was very nice of the instructor as our
final assignment is due next week and most of us have already started on it. As you may have guessed it is slightly more
than a 3 page essay. The class has gone
very ...
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I sometimes get asked “how do you remember all of that stuff” when talking about tests I’ve taken for computer certifications such as the Comptia A+, Network+ and a bunch of stuff I’ve learned throughout earning my BS and MBA. Honestly there is no one trick or tip that works for everything but there are some that will ...
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Okay I’m not going to kid you; I struggled on the week 3 assignment. I mean, why wouldn’t I? I had just written about how I was in, what was it? Oh yes, “familiar territory” and about how things were “down hill” and other such boastful phrases. Week 3 reminded me that I was still amidst a full blown MBA ...
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My title got you didn’t it? You’re reading this blog post thinking “can I really get my MBA quick and easy?” Sure you can. It wasn’t too many weeks ago I interviewed a guy who had a degree from a wholly unaccredited and un-wonderful university (which shall go unnamed) and he told me how quick and easy it was to get ...
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Okay, tonight’s blog post is going to sound a little arrogant or conceited at first glance but bear with me, I’m experiencing something of a personal crisis of faith while simultaneously wondering if perhaps I’m wrong. So if anyone has felt the way I feel right now and finally saw the light at the end of the tunnel or realized ...
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This week’s assignment in Operations Management seemed deceptively simple at first glance. As I got further into the assignment I quickly had to learn how to create various charts in Microsoft Word that I have never attempted before and I had to learn how to use a spreadsheet to create a specific type of chart (a Gannt for those who must ...
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Right now everywhere you turn we in America are in short supply of something vital to our country; we are in short supply of true leaders. Oh sure there are lots of people running about claiming to be leaders simply because they have been placed in leadership positions, but simply occupying a place of authority does not make a leader. If that ...
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There is a phenomenon in my workplace that you may have
noticed in your workplace. We get strong
talk of progressive thinking and results oriented action plans when it comes to
improving management within our department however the “improving” is always
done at the first line supervisor level.
It seems that every ...
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Tonight I will wrap up Learning Block 2 in Operations Management. It was a 5 page research paper and a couple of discussion board questions. The reading assignments are fairly smooth as Operations Management is really just a form of systems thinking or what I call a big picture approach to handling situations. I’m one of ...
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For the past 6 months I have been working on quantitative courses and not really so much on anything research or qualitative. Even though I was required to write final projects the information was largely presented in equations, formulas and numerical answers with brief to thorough explanations. There really wasn’t a whole lot of ...
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As the title says, I received my first week’s assignment feedback. At the outset I immediately looked at my grade of 83% and thought ‘ah crap, it’s going to be like that, huh?’ Upon looking at the instructor feedback however I noticed two things. First is that this instructor really took the time to read and understand ...
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I finally received my grade on my final report for
Managerial Finance. I made an 86% on
it. You wouldn’t believe what I got “gigged”
on. I used conversational English as I
frequently do, even here I suppose and I kept using the phrase “Let’s take the
example of…” or some ...
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“Where do you find the time?” “You must really like working a lot.” “You must be a (book worm or nerd or Einstein or driven or a workaholic or any number of assumptions people like to make about someone they barely know anything about other than they are different). These three quotes above are ...
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Okay so I’m starting to sweat a little bit. I still have not received my grade for my final project and it’s been a week now. This thing is no joke. It is 35% of my total score for the class, we’re talking GPA affecting here. And this class wasn’t a piece of cake either. I’m hurting for ...
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I have no idea why, but for some reason I thought that Managerial Finance was the completion of my Core. Actually I do know why, because looking at my schedule it would appear as if I have already done Operations Management but as it turns out I have not. So, I guess I had a little premature celebration earlier when telling everyone I was done ...
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No,
I’m not about to drop out of Ashford University, not only do I love the school,
I have only 4 classes left. But I am about to enroll in the Louisiana
State University
post graduate Certificate in Accounting. Even though I have basically
spent the last 6 months doing graduate quantitative methods, finance ...
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I am now waist deep in my week 5 and final case study for this class. This one is basically about market efficiencies, managed funds vs. non-managed trading, etc. It’s kind of neat in that there are no hard and fast rules and there is a lot of psychology involved. It also puts into perspective the effects and consequences ...
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I read an interesting interview of an executive recruiter over the value of the MBA. I recommend you read it as well, but in a nutshell, the MBA has real value. It has the most value in investment banking, consulting work and finance but can be a cross industry asset as well. The MBA is being more sought after by being ...
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It’s week 5 in Managerial Finance and so far all is
well. I started playing guitar again
this last week and we’ve almost got all of our boxes unpacked. My garage is full of crap but at least now I
have a living room and a couch to sit on.
I will be building a home office/music room soon. That is once I ...
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This week in Managerial Finance we looked at investing. By the nature of investing there is an
element of risk. Risk is the price of
opportunity for profit. I’ve always
considered getting an education to be an investment, albeit one in which the
returns are often not readily quantifiable but an investment ...
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I logged in last night to my Blackboard account and clicked on my “grades” portion of the menu. Honestly I was dreading looking at them because I struggled so much with week 3 that I was almost certain that I had failed miserably. As it turns out I made 100% on everything which is a shock. I don’t even know why ...
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