October 6th, 2009

Today I drove my wife to work at seven in the morning. Way too early, but better than having to walk to get the car in the cold. I was honestly intending to work on my Japanese debate but ended up reading MyLifeIsAverage.com. I eventually went to my ManEc class. We discussed China and the homework we turned in. It is interesting to see how different teachers discuss the same events. My history professor taught about Mao Zedong much differently than my economics professor does. Anyway, it was interesting to look at America's dependence on China and how if they just slow the pace of buying treasury bills, it will affect the economy drastically. We talked about what China should do to continue growing and why everyone wants to get into China. 1.4 billion consumers is a pretty good reason.

I went to the MISM lounge and tried again to work on my debate but was distracted by students playing the Gamecube. While really hilarious watching my fellow students fail to beat certain levels of Smash Brothers, it was less than productive. At noon I met with Dr. Ball. We discussed what next steps I should take in preparing some data. We are working on examining information systems programs and comparing the courses to what CIOs are looking for in graduates. I need to go back through the data I have gathered and make sure I have both undergraduate and graduate programs if available for each school. Also, I will start working on condensing the data so it is easier to understand and manipulate.

Next, I went to my Japanese class early to work on the debate. I was pretty stressed out about it because I don't think I can debate well in English and my team had the more difficult position. The debate was an argument for and against the following statement: The reason that Japanese young people have no dreams is because of the Japanese social system. I was arguing against the statement. It was an extremely broad statement and my argument was that Japanese people still have dreams. Anyway it was pretty relaxed and not too formal. Next we will be working on a play. I am one of the main characters, there are only five but main is one of the two main roles. We will perform in front of the Japanese Club and anyone else that wants to show up. I am excited to participate in a play. I wanted to in high school, but always had conflicts with sports.

After Japanese, I went to my change management class. We picked cases to present on as teams and my team got the earliest presentation date despite our best efforts not to. Dr. Anderson discussed the grading rubric for presentations and my team is trying to find a time to meet. Our case is about Siemens. She then told us she posted our participation points up to this point in the semester. I have 52%. I need to talk more in class I guess. Oh well. We discussed the articles and the best part about that is hearing people's experiences.

After class, I went to the ISYS lab and finished my VBScript homework for Enterprise Infrastructure. That was a fun little script and it is true that you feel good accomplishing it even though it is a pretty small portion of code. The nice thing about arriving early to school was that I snagged a great parking spot. As far as I can tell I don't have any homework tonight. I think I will read and maybe look over my upcoming projects. That's all for now.