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Today on my way to work I was listening to AM talk radio, yeah I’m one of those people (sometimes). Anyhow a less than, shall we say “enlightened” caller calls in to the talk show complaining about how every time a major business goes belly up the CEOs walk and the little guy loses his meager paycheck. Fair enough, ...
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Sorry to those who have asked, but I’ve not yet “officially” enrolled yet. I get my performance plan at work tomorrow and I’m going to try and include my classes towards my degree in the plan in an effort to a.) get credit two different ways and b.) absolutely ensure the financial reimbursement which although already ...
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I’ve tried to think of how to express the events of today’s commencement ceremony at Ashford University but I think it’s better until I have some pictures developed to really go into detail. However I know a lot of you out there are curious so I’ll give you a quick rundown of how everything went and get more into each ...
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No doubt about it, starting a degree program can be scary. We’re talking about committing to something that is very time consuming and that can cost more than a new car. The stress involved in researching and choosing a specific school and degree program is something that almost any working adult graduate student can relate to, ...
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A reader emailed me recently with a question as to how difficult the accelerated format at Ashford University can be. Well there are four really important considerations you need to take into account if thinking about attempting an MBA from Ashford University.
1.) The pace of the course. The MBA is in quick 6 week course formats; ...
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I'm fresh back from the first job fair that I've attended in... let's see, probably over 8 or 9 years and truthfully I'm a little bit rusty. I waited in line almost an hour to get in, I have no idea why it took so long but there you have it. Then once I get in there were a ton of people waiting in line for this one ...
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I received my final grade for my last course today. Drum roll puleez…. I have graduated with a GPA of 4.0!!!! (applause, wild cheering) Thank you! Thank you!
Seriously this is a huge thing for me. Approximately 6 months ago I would be sitting in a Waffle House at about this time, pouring over a Managerial ...
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So the waiting game begins. I still haven’t seen my grade on m final paper and while I have no doubt that I’ve passed the class, I still worry about losing a point or more on my GPA. Those of you who have followed my blog for some time now know the whole sordid story as to why I’ve always wanted a 4.0GPA and what it ...
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That's it, I'm done. I finished my last piece of work this evening, submitted the assignment, answered a couple of discussion posts and have thereby completed all the academic coursework necessary for an MBA from Ashford University. As typical this last assignment was 33% of my overall grade thus making it a make it ...
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Adult learners will often go through some realizations and some fears when enrolling in a new degree program. At least I did and most of the people I know have. So if you enroll in a new school or undergo a new degree program here are some common feelings and thoughts.
1.) “Did I make the right choice?” Believe it or ...
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My brother and I were talking tonight about the average MBA’ssalary in North Texas and I kind of gained someenlightenment as to what to expect in the job market during ourconversation. First of all, I wasrecently perusing a job search site and an ad popped up quoting a statisticthat only 20% of people in a given company are hired via a ...
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I’m finishing the first week of my last class. This is it, I’m officially underway now. It’s a very cool feeling I can tell you that
much. So far the class has been the
typical 2 to 3 discussion questions
and one written assignment all broken down into 6 learning blocks representing
the 6 weeks of ...
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On August 13th I will go have a minor surgery performed. Don’t panic, it’s no big deal but I will be out of work for a couple of weeks while I recover. The great thing is that by the time I’m back at work I should be halfway through my last course of the MBA. I’ll actually be able to use some of my sick ...
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Guess what? 6 weeks to go and I still have a 4.0GPA. Man how sweet would that be to graduate with that in tact? I might even list that on my resume. ;-) For those of you who are dying to know I made a 99% for the course, okay a 98.6% but I’m rounding up… Was the course easy? Heck no, but I did ...
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Well that’s it, my final assignment for Leading Organizational Change has been turned in and it’s all over but the crying. I’ll probably have to wait until about Thursday to receive a grade, which is fair given the size of this class. I have come to discover that the class that I am in now, Strategies in ...
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I don't know why but I've been bitten hard by the procrastination bug in finishing up this final project. I'm in a nice quiet office, whiling away the hours doing nothing and all I have done is a paper outline. I'm just terribly unmotivated for some reason. Maybe what I need to do is just break down my paper outline into chunks and ...
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This is my last week in Leading Organizational Change and as such I have the typical “make it or break it” paper due counting for 30% of my overall score for the class. I think I have a pretty good topic prepared but my job has really turned up the heat on us with training, mandatory overtime, staffing shortages and the ...
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So I've fallen way behind on my LSU course work. I get busy on my MBA work and by the time I've done everything necessary for the course I'm too exhausted to even look at another textbook. As a result I've only completed 3 out of the 16 required assignments for LSU.
The good news is that I have a few months to finish the course up ...
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I haven't really said much thus far about how my experience with LSU is going. Primarily because in all truthfulness there's really not much to say at this point. I just started my 3rd lesson out of 16 today and have not yet taken a proctored exam. The lessons focus on 1 chapter of the textbook each so with 16 textbook chapters there are ...
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During a brief discussion with my brother this weekend I came to an epiphany, there is a difference between “Organizational Leadership” and “Leadership” as an academic study. I know the two sound the same and there are many similarities but the two are entirely different in their approach and end game. In fact I ...
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Tonight I took an online refresher course for my job. To say that the course was tedious, dry and convoluted would only be throwing sugar on how I really feel about it. Honestly they made this “thing” into a four hour block of reading poorly put together case examples and little video scenarios that look like they were directed by a ...
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I didn't post last night because I quite honestly was not in an objective frame of mind. I was actually quite upset by my final grade on my final paper in Organizational Leadership. You see, my final paper was scored at a 72 percent which since it was 25 percent of my overall grade, lowered my final score for the class to an 89 percent. If ...
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Yesterday I turned in my final project for Organizational Leadership. It was an eight to 10 page paper (excluding abstract, references, appendix, etc.) which in of itself was not too terrible but for some reason I had to fight a major bout of writer's block, something I'm not used to experiencing but something I have always kind of feared. ...
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Tonight I was reading the various student success stories on the Ashford University's Web site in an effort to gain some encouragement and get some perspective. I got both but I also got a little bit of a surprise too, after reading so many success stories I am starting to really see how the ability to study and earn a degree online has ...
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This week's grades are in and I'm starting to wonder. I scored barely a 92 percent on my assignment and received and a 90 percent on my discussion. The killer is that I am dragging the bottom of the barrel on the class averages. There are only six of us in the whole class so I know that when I'm lower than the class average, I'm ...
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