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Final Stretch


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It almost feels as if winter term is ramping up rather than winding down. Over the next two weeks, I need to master a final exam and group project for my elective (for a total of 90 percent of my grade) as well as a final paper for our core course (worth 50 percent of [...]

always look on the bright side of life


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(whistle)  sorry, I had a Monty Python moment (thanks Dad).
Today registration for Spring quarter began, and though I logged in very early, my first choice class was already full.  So I registered for my second choice class, why by the way is an awesome class.
For a moment I was bummed but instead of remaining focused [...]

Letting Go While Holding On


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It took much longer to file away my notes and handouts from first quarter than expected. I thought I would be doing this within days of first term’s end. Yet, I found myself creating binders for my old courses just two days before my new classes would begin.
It was hard to let go. I feared [...]

MSC Program Speed


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Tomorrow, the 80+ of us in this program will again head to Francis Searle  (the communication building at NU) for two classes.  In the first, teams of 3 will present their work over the past weeks auditing an innovation process at a company, and in the second, we’ll be broken up by elective class presumably [...]