Category: Nerdery
There’s someone that I’ve been seeing entirely too much of lately. His name is Pratt and he’s been consuming my days and even guest starring in my dreams ((Well, technically it wasn’t Pratt per se in my dreams, but I did have a few accounting-related nightmares in the last few weeks. True story.)): Had my […]
Hey, remember when I started a nerdy science blog with my friend Dave? The one that I had to, sadly, take my leave from when I started my MBA? Well, that site has been picked up by University Affairs magazine’s site! If you are interested in issues affecting early career scientists – and you know […]
Hey, remember that time I started doing the May Health Challenge? Well, I’m on day 5 of 30 and so far, so good! I’ve eaten something for breakfast every single day ((Not necessarily the *most* healthy breakfast every day, but nothing too terrible.)) and I’ve done some form of physical activity (in addition to my […]
So the other day I noticed that you could make a map of all your Linked In contacts, which shows you where you have clusters of contacts and where the clusters connect. Naturally, because I love visualizations of data, I jumped on it. And this is what I got: The first thing you notice is […]
My classmates and I are working on a marketing project that requires us to do some market research and I just *know* that you want to help me out with this, right? (If you already saw my tweet about this, feel free to ignore!) All you have to do is fill out a little survey […]
I just invented a new rule. When doing homework, every time I get up from my desk (e.g., to go to the bathroom, to make tea), I have to do 5 pushups. I figure this will deter me from getting up from my homework for frivolous reasons and/or make me do a lot of pushups. […]
So I just finished four solid days of classes. That’s 8 am to 5 pm on Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, plus homework in the evenings. Plus a welcome dinner on Thursday night. I now have 3 assignments and 2 rounds of a business simulation due before the next weekend of classes, two weeks hence. […]
So apparently the world continues on no matter how big the tumor in my dad’s brain is, and so this weekend I was back at school for the third of three pre-core courses. This time, it was economics. Economics, according to our good friends at Wikipedia, is “the social science that analyzes the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services.” I had to […]
This past weekend’s pre-core course was about accounting, which means I spent Friday night and all day Saturday and all day Sunday journalizing, posting to ledgers, and making statements of income/owner’s equity and so forth. I can feel your jealousy. I’ve never done *any* accounting before, so this was a pretty steep learning curve. When […]
So, I was in class for 20.5 hours on the weekend ((Hence the blog radio silence for the past few days.)): Friday – 5:30 to 9 p.m. Saturday – 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday – 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. It was a lot of hours and it was all math and – I’m […]