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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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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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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, 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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I’ll admit that over the last few months I’ve been a bit frazzled beyond what is probably good for my health. Recently however I have been able to decompress quite a bit. All of the work stress is still there, in fact this week has been particularly stressful but because I am now in somewhat more familiar territory in my studies and ...
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That title goes out to all of you Star-Trek fans out there (dorks). Seriously though, this is the last and most ominous week of the series for Managerial Finance. So far I have a 94% for the class and I just finished all of the discussion questions. That leaves the final. I’ve decided to take the next 5 days of work off for a ...
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As most of you already know I closed on my new house last Friday. Even though this was a newly built house, my wife and I decided long ago that we wanted porcelain tile and stone mosaic floors throughout the entire structure, even in the washroom and bedrooms. As you can imagine this was/is very, very pricey. Today I was telling ...
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Yesterday morning I got up at the crack of dawn in order to be at the title office in time to close on my new house. Thank God! It’s not quite yet over however as I still have to pay some construction guys to come through and redo all of the floors before we can move in. BUT, before they can do that, I have to go in and ...
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I popped in tonight on the Ashford University Discussion Board all ready to spend a couple of hours answering a Discussion Question then going to bed. Well the problem is, the discussion question seems to be a series of concept questions in the book which must be answered before you have all of the pertinent information to answer the ...
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I’ve been known for years at my work as “that guy who goes to college online for his MBA” and often when people meet me for the first time knowing this I can tell that they are just brimming over with questions that they want to ask but for some reason they don’t. Sometimes people will ask me the question after many ...
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This class is the last of my MBA core requirements and the last class of what is the roughest patch of getting an MBA. The stretch of courses that all students and grads dread and tell horror stories about. The quantitative courses, in this case 4 in a row at 6 weeks each for a grand total of 24 grueling weeks of hard time and ...
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I found an interesting thread this evening in a discussion post about a recently minted MBA who seems to be ostracizing himself at work when it comes to relationships with his peers and boss. In this case the graduate likes to reiterate the fact that he has an MBA, uses shop jargon taught in business school around people who are unfamiliar ...
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This is part II of a two part series. (Click to view part I.)
6.) Technology. Technology is an inevitable part of being an online student. Using new, unfamiliar software and mastering the art of using it skillfully will become essential. If you are still carrying a pager, use a rotary phone, are afraid of a fax machine and ...
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Okay I know it seems strange for a guy who is all about distance education to write about the negative aspects of learning online, but for the sake of fairness sometimes it is necessary to look at the bad side of learning as well as the good. After all it is important to make a well-informed decision when considering going back to ...
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Of course there are many, many good reasons people don’t get an MBA, such as being a Heart Surgeon or a full time Nurse Practitioner or some other lucrative career choice where an MBA really wouldn’t further your career much if any. But for those of you working in business or those of you who have majored in business it can often ...
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It’ll be dawn in a couple of hours and I’ll be asleep like Dracula after a long night by the time that occurs. Unfortunately rather than chasing damsels in distress I’ve been figuring out the time value of money, the net present value, discount rates, payback period, discounted payback period, internal rate of return and on ...
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Normally I will finish my written assignment on Saturday night after working on it for a while throughout the week. Well unfortunately, I have been a little more pressed for time than normal and I still need to submit the assignment by Monday. Given that tomorrow is the “big game” (note the term super-duper-bowl is ...
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Almost anyone in business can tell you, the world of business is becoming increasingly global. I’ve made no bones in the past about how important an MBA can be for ones future prospects at getting ahead. Though I am still debating as to whether this is because of the skills you learned due to your MBA studies or the sheer fact ...
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According to the Star Tribune the MBA has become “the” degree to get for working adults. In the St. Paul-Minneapolis area alone the newspaper estimates that there are 5,000 MBA students working towards their degree from one of a dozen available schools. Students, “…primarily working adults taking classes at ...
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A coworker of mine overheard me talking about the expense of graduate school. After all, I did just prepay the balance of my tuition to Ashford. He kind of in a joking way stated, “all of that money and time gone and you’re in the same job as me probably making the same money and I don’t even have a degree.”
Now he did ...
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When considering any degree program it is important to understand how the materials will be provided and what on what type of media. For example, Fort Hays State University gives professors the option of video taping lectures on VHS cassette in which case it would be necessary for you to own a VCR (I know, they're getting harder to find). If ...
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This week thus far has been a ride. I’m closing on my old house, moving out, keeping up with my homework in Managerial Economics, skimming the reading assignments to the best of my ability and of course attempting to not get fired from my job while all of this goes down. So how do I do it? Honestly I’ve had to cut some corners on my ...
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I have completed my spreadsheet for my final economic report in Quantitative Methods. The good news is that in a worst case scenario, even if I receive a 0% for this week I will still pass the class. The bad news is that I just ordered my book for Managerial Economics and it was over $150.00, ouch! I am really looking forward to ...
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Man, I'm no longer a "twenty-something". I'm officially too old for the club life (no more all night raves) and I'm too young to join the country club. I suppose it's a milestone even though every birthday between 21 and 65 is really just another bean in the jar. Looking back now though I have to tell ...
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Tonight I took my final assessment for the Accounting portion of my Quantitative Methods leveling course for Ashford. I made an 80% which is SUBSTANTIALLY better than the initial exam. Although this test really only accounts for 5% of my overall grade and the project which I just turned in is 10% (hopefully I did it right) the score on ...
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