Hello
old friends,
Well it’s been another long week. I started working with
Mitchell this week, so between class, work and more class I worked a solid 8
a.m. – 9 p.m. every day and then got to do homework. Still, working for
Mitchell is going to be good and I’m glad that I can get some training out of
the way before I start full-time after graduation.
This week’s highlights:
-My team
in Strategic Management won the challenge assignment. Every semester Dr. Anand
surprises students with an extra assignment that is bit more challenging than
our usual ones. This one involved coming up with a new business model for the
circus industry. Anyway, my team looked at some other models out there and took
the best bits from each and came up with a project that we really felt was
exciting. Evidently, our professor and the judges thought so too. We get a
boost in our participation grade and little reward like a small gift card to Starbucks.
Mainly, it’s just exciting because we all thought we had a great project and it
was nice to get confirmation of that.
-Learning
lots of fun things on IBM’s SPSS Modeler in Enterprise Systems. I do enjoy
getting to play with data. I just hate having to wait for a model to load.
-Just
about there in Grant Writing. It’s odd because so much goes into to writing a
grant but the output for this one will be less than ten-pages. I feel like I do
a bunch of research to write one or two sentences.
-Work at
the library is chugging along. I’m painstakingly sorting out the InternationalBusiness Library Guide. You should check it out. I have a question to my
international friends out there—what region of the world do I place Turkey in?
It doesn’t really fit well into any region—Middle East, Central Asia, Eastern
Europe?
-Work at
Mitchell is going to be good. Everybody is nice and excited to work there,
which is always a good sign.
Here’s the video for the week:
