Less Sporadic Postings? Nah…

July 23rd, 2005 • Comments Off Education, General

I’ve been thinking about my blog for a while and realized that I really haven’t been putting the time into it that I should. One of the biggest reasons as of late is the recent rebirth of my academic career. I hope things are changing on this front though. I’m now in my last four week module for the summer and the class load is a bit lighter since one of the classes is essentially public speaking. Therefore that means one less midterm and final to worry about. I just have to be concerned about launching into a coherent discussion of a topic and sound like I’m confident of my position.

So I’m starting to turn my attention towards a few different new topics. I’m hoping to write about some new and different ideas soon but if you have anything in particular that you would like me to cover, let me know via a comment on this post. The ideas in my head cover things running from technology to international affairs to chemistry. I don’t really have any topics that I’m planning on shying away from unless I know absolutely nothing about them. And even then, the Internet is a great research tool.

Look for a new topic posting about once a week or so although the next few weeks are going to be a bit rough in getting this going.

My New Adventure: Goizueta Business School

July 5th, 2005 • Comments Off Education

So I’ve been pretty quiet as of late which has been induced by one big cause really. About two months ago I decided to take a hiatus from my company so that I could pursue my MBA. Back in mid-May I joined the accelerated one year MBA class of 2006 at Emory’s Goizueta Business School.

I must say, the summer so far has been intense. The one year program crams in a year worth of schooling into 12 weeks - four weeks per module. Each module has three classes going on it. Midterms happen in late week two usually and finals in the fourth week. Hectic? Yes. The great benefit of doing this program though is that you accomplish in one year what most people do in two. Although the tuition savings is only one semester (since the program goes three semesters for a full calendar year in length as opposed to four semesters over two calendar years) the time savings is the biggest benefit.

One of the wonderful things that I’ve been able to do because of this hiatus is that I’m starting to think of business, processes, and other things in ways that I haven’t in a long time. I can already see the application of a lot of things that I’ve learned on real world problems.

So that is what I’ve been up to. Hopefully I’ll have more time to write soon about school, business, and many other things.