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Friday, August 08, 2008
Numbers…
Eleven Months, ten classes, 3.97 GPA - one MIS degree| Course | Title | CR | Start | End | Instructor | Grade |
| COM/526 | MANAGERIAL COMMUNICATION | 3.00 | 08/21/2007 | 10/01/2007 | W. ERIC HOGAN | A |
| BSA/500 | BUSINESS SYSTEMS I | 3.00 | 10/02/2007 | 11/12/2007 | VANESSA JOHNSON | A |
| BSA/502 | BUSINESS SYSTEMS II | 3.00 | 11/13/2007 | 12/24/2007 | JENNIFER MROCZKO | A |
| CMGT/555 | SYSTEMS ANALYSIS AND DEVELOPMENT | 3.00 | 01/08/2008 | 02/18/2008 | KENNETH BUTLER | A |
| CSS/561 | PROGRAMMING CONCEPTS | 3.00 | 01/08/2008 | 02/18/2008 | SUNDAR SINNAPPAN | A |
| CMGT/575 | CIS PROJECT MANAGEMENT | 3.00 | 02/19/2008 | 03/31/2008 | KENNETH KLEIN | A |
| DBM/500 | DATABASE CONCEPTS | 3.00 | 04/01/2008 | 05/12/2008 | ROBERT ESTEY | A |
| NTC/500 | NETWORKING CONCEPTS | 3.00 | 04/01/2008 | 05/12/2008 | ROBERT HONOHAN | A- |
| CMGT/579 | CIS RISK MANAGEMENT | 3.00 | 05/13/2008 | 06/23/2008 | DAVID HATFIELD | A |
| CMGT/578 | CIS STRATEGIC PLANNING | 3.00 | 06/24/2008 | 08/04/2008 | CHRISTINA SARDEGNA | A |
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Final grade in one class
Well, I took networking and database management this past term at University of Phoenix. I’ve gotten my grade for the database class.
I guess that means I did all right. Now waiting to for the networking class. Going in to the last week I had a 96.7% (yeah, kinda funny that I would be lower in Networking than in databases). However 24% of the grade is scored the last week. So, I could have a 76% or a 97.4% or anywhere in between.
I guess I’ll know in the next day or two.
Taking these two classes during this time in my life was exceedingly difficult. First, there was a lot of work. Second, my groups were less than ideal. Third, there were a number of outside inconveniences including Pascha and a job related trip to Florida.
I am a little nervous about my networking grade. I would hate to lose my 4.0.
Ah well, time will tell, and now I am in my next to last class - IT Risk Management. Should be a fun class. After last term, it should be much easier and much less stressful. P
Comments:
Matsu on 05/15 at 04:04 AM said:
You wrote, “...my groups were less than ideal” about the two classes you just completed. WOW! Was that ever a challenge when I got my degree from UoP online.
There were some unbelievable free-loaders in the program and they got credit for just being thrown into a group, whether they did anything (and most did nothing) or not. But, I wasn’t willing to take a low grade because of them, so the students who cared about their grades and doing good work ended up carrying the work load of the students who didn’t care and didn’t do hardly any work. I guess that’s the nature of group projects.
Congrats on your high scores, especially deserved given the circumstances you were under when you earned them.
Moose on 05/15 at 10:00 AM said:
Matsu,
Thank you. You know… I remember the same issues at Asbury. I don’t think this is a UoP issue, per se, but a group dynamic issue as you have stated.
Part of the problem with me is that by doubling up on classes I change groups. I’ve done this a couple times, so I am with people at the latter stages of the degree that I have no clue about.
Additionally, everybody else in the class does have a clue about and has requested to either not be in certain people’s groups or have requested to be in other groups. Thus, you end up with the strong students working together, and schmucks like me being stuck with the free-loaders, as you called them.
This is the price I pay for finishing a 14 month Masters in less than a year I guess.
Again, thanks for the congrats and for reading my blog.
Friday, April 11, 2008
700 MHz - the gold mine of the FCC - and Google doesn’t get any.
Google has a nice blog article ( http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/04/cone-of-silence-finally-lifts-on.html is the URL ) on the spectrum auction that went on in jan/feb of this year. This was for the 700MHz auction that Google promised to bid at least $4.6 billion for if the FCC would put 4 “open platforms” as part of the auction. The FCC agreed to 2 of them. (That information can be found here: http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com/2007/07/our-commitment-to-open-broadband.html ) Even though FCC only agreed to 2, Google still bid more than the $4.6 billion minimum they said they would.
Here are a few highlights that I think are interesting…
“Google’s top priority heading into the auction was to make sure that bidding on the so-called “C Block” reached the $4.6 billion reserve price that would trigger the important “open applications” and “open handsets” license conditions. “
“But it was clear, then and now, that Verizon Wireless ultimately was motivated to bid higher (and had far more financial incentive ( http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com/2007/07/restoring-competitive-balance-to.html ) to gain the licenses).”
I believe that Verizon and others ended up paying $19,120,378,000 for 1090 licenses. They were the ones back in July/Aug/Sept appealed the FCC’s open device and open platform order that the FCC agreed to with Google for the minimum bid.
For those of you that are not aware, the 700 MHz spectrum is the one that U.S. television stations are required to abandon by February 2009. The 700 MHz spectrum is (according to this washington post article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/20/AR2008032000048.html) is ideal for wireless broadband services. “They travel 3-4 times further and penetrate obstacles such as buildings more easily than wireless signals in higher spectrum bands.”
FCC information on the auction can be found at their web site (Auction 73) at this location: http://wireless.fcc.gov/auctions/default.htm?job=auction_summary&id=73. It covers TV channels 52-69 (see http://wireless.fcc.gov/auctions/data/bandplans/700MHzBandPlan.pdf ) for the Band plan.
https://auctionbidding.fcc.gov/auction/index.htm?CFID=3628486&CFTOKEN=99789402&jsessionid=wTGjH1jc9NTpGJ5HLyMv0MZWn3m90l15hjtDLJVT9TJbNNrk286L!-1946843305!-1095684957!1207935996278 <-- go here for the full results.
Oh, and FYI, Lexington went to Cavalier Wireless and Frontier Wireless. And, if you sort by amounts, Lexington went for a higher amount than Louisville did.
Thursday, April 03, 2008
The hardest Class in my University of Phoenix Master’s Career
Comments:
Matsu on 04/04 at 04:35 AM said:
Dave, I’m beginning to detect a pattern with your grades. The pattern is still a little fuzzy, but I’m sure I’ll figure it out, soon.
Okay, I’ll say it.... Good job!
Moose on 04/04 at 08:54 AM said:
Matsu,
I am glad that the pattern that is emerging is one that elicits “Good job!” 
I feel that my resume has three holes, and I am trying to fill them all in.
1) No technical degree
2) Fairly bad grades in my Bachelor’s
3) No Masters
So, a 4.0 on a technical Masters takes care of each of these issues.
I started this 14 month masters on 8/21/07. So, had I followed their plan, worked on classes full time with no breaks, I would have finished around the first week of November, 2008. (2 weeks off at Christmas.)
However, I doubled up on Systems Analysis and Programming Concepts and am now doubled up on Database Concepts and Networking Concepts I have moved that forward 12 weeks. I am considering doubling up on Risk Management and Strategic Planning. If I do, I would finish 6/23/08 - so 10 months for a 14 month degree (while maintaining a 4.0). If I do not double up on the last two, i’ll finish 8/4/08, which is 11 months - still, I think, an impressive feat.
Oh, and Matsu, thank you for noticing.
Saturday, March 29, 2008
Bragging, plain and simple.
“Hi David, It has been a privilege to have you in this course with me. In my 25 UOP courses, I have never before had a student who has maxed each and every grading category! Congratulations on a superior achievement. “
Ken Klein
University Of Phoenix Faculty
I’ve become that student that everyone hates. Its a good feeling.
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