I miss Webb's Livingston Library. Today is a perfect snow-falling on winter trees day in Ann Arbor and I've only seen it for about 90 seconds, walking from Kresge to my FIN class in the Executive building. At Webb I had a spacious table and huge floor-to-ceiling windows that looked out on scenes exactly like the one outside today. But that is just poetic waxing, there isn't much that can be done about it.
Section 3 keeps stretching its breaks. Ordinarily I'd be all about having 15 minutes instead of 10, but when you are paying at MBA rates to be in class, I'm all for 9 minutes instead of 10. The other day I figured out how much I spend per minute to be in class this fall and then promptly forgot the number. I just recalculated and the total is $0.98/minute. Over the course of the semester that adds up to over $500 in tuition spent on watching my sectionmates trickle back from the bathroom.
Last night was the TMI IPD (Integrated Product Development) Trade Show at Peirpont. The products were designed 'to enable mobile technology.' Most were bags or sleeves for laptops, but there was also a cool fold-out caddy that attached to your notebook with velcro and a USB-driven two-port charger for other battery-draining mobile devices. It was pretty cool to see the tangible results of a six-credit engineering and business course; I'd like to participate next fall so watch out for painfully long and frequent online marketing surveys.
Thursday, December 01, 2005