November 20

Well...today was the second day of excel in class demonstrations.  I did not feel as confident as I did after the first excel demonstration.  I think that this class was a tad bit on the difficult side.  I do not think it is necessarily that difficult, I'm just scared about doing the homework.  I feel like learning all of this information in one session is difficult to then be able to replicate what you are doing when you get home.  I know that in community college you take an entire class just on microsoft office.  Anyway, I just think overall that the school is expecting us to learn a lot of information in a brief amount of time.  However, I do not think that this is the opinion of everyone in the class.  A lot of people are naturally gifted with being good at using computers and they can seem to pick things up with ease, I unfortunately, am not one of those people.  owell.  I looked over the homework and I am not sure how I am going to be able to do the homework, I do not think that I was able to completely understand everything we went over in class on thursday, I think it seems rather complex.  So basically, expect to see me on tuesday with numerous questions :).  Anywho, I think I'm going to go and attempt to try and do this homework.  I am going to do it on my MAC, so I hope it will turn out the same as it would on a PC.  If not I'll have to wait until I'm at school on Tuesday to work on it.  (I would drive but I live in Belmont Shore...not exactly around the corner).  Anyway, time to go enjoy the weekend... :) only 3 more weeks of school left!!

November 18

So today was the first day of learning excel.  I was pleasantly surprised by how easy it was.  I was sort of nervous since I find myself to generally be computer challenged, however, it was not all that difficult.  I think my main problem with this Demonstration was that I have a MAC and I was using a PC.  I have excel for MAC and they are surprisingly different in my opinion.  I think that today went very smoothly.  I think it was easy to follow along with what you were saying and doing in class during the demonstration.  The pace we went at was a good one, I did not feel like I missed anything and we went slow enough that at least us in the back row were able to help each other out when we got sidetracked or confused.  I am pretty excited about excel because I feel like this is something that we will be using a lot in business.  I have already had a few jobs where we had to know how to use excel.  I think that access was interesting to learn but might not be as necessary as excel.  :)  I looked at the homework and it seems to be quite manageable so hopefully I will be able to figure it out before the holidays.  

November 13

So ...today I was unfortunately not in class mainly because I started this alkaline diet and I have been doing wonderful at it for about 2 wks and have completely detoxed my body from preservatives and all the bad things that comes along with eating poorly.  Anywho...Wednesday night I had a meltdown and found myself starving and at about midnight I drove to In-N-Out and ordered fries and a cheeseburger ...amazing!!!! until...approximately 2 in the morning when I woke up and was very stick to my stomach...I'll spare the details ...but it lasted well into the following afternoon...so I avoided school and humans in general.  Anyway I really hope I was not called on to give a news report today...but if I was then hopefully I have had enough others that I volunteered for to be okay.  According to the syllabus it says we went over part two of Chapter 9.  I reviewed the slides to make sure that I am up to par with the rest of the class.  When I saw the title Artificial Intelligence on section two I assumed that we were going to be learning about human-like robots...which was kind of what we were learning about...not totally...but close.  I imagined Wall-E ...a robot with feelings but owell.  I found this section on robotics really interesting.  I have been thinking about getting one of those robot dogs for napoleon and roman to play with just to see if it freaks them out or what will happen.  I still might get one I think it will be entertaining to say the least...not sure how the puppies will handle it but whatever.  I think that this section will be easy to learn and remember for the Exam since it is really interesting in my opinion.  Anyway, I am ready for tuesday ...I really like doing the in class demonstrations because I find them extremely helpful and beneficial, not only to this class.  These are programs we use at work and in other classes and it would be nice to really understand how to actually use them.  (especially Excel, when it comes to accounting I can barely figure out how to use the program).  See you in 2 days :)

November 11

Well unfortunately my dear friend Ashley had to leave early today to pick up her mom from John Wayne Airport, and since we carpool that meant that I had to leave as well.  I do apologize for having to leave 20 minutes early.  Anywho...today we started chapter 9 and to be honest I've had so many final projects and midterms these past two weeks that I have been burnt out and really didn't feel much like learning.  Luckily, a lot of what we learned about today I already learned in my Management 316 class that I am currently taking...so it was almost like a review...parts of it anyway.  In my Management class we just finished learning all about the structure of management and decision making so I enjoyed the fact that I wasn't going to have to learn a lot of new information.  I am also currently the group leader for a project that has 8 people in the group and we basically had to form a corporation ...so this subject was interesting since it applies to what I am currently doing and I was able to think about what we are learning and relate it to what I am doing in my other class.  I did find the whole idea of dashboards slightly boring and rather confusing...probably found them confusing since the topic didn't interest me...owell, I can't expect everything to be super exciting.  Well...I believe we left sometime around learning about OLAP...so I decided to be a good student and go over it and I think you have really good notes and slides on it so it all seems to make sense for the most part.  I know you told us if we had to leave early to stand up and be like "we're done were not taking it anymore"...or something along those lines...but when we were actually leaving we were to scared to do that.  Anyway thats all for now :)

November 6

So TEST DAY...I was rather confused when I walked in today and noticed this lady standing at the front of the room.  At first, I thought that I might have possibly entered into the wrong classroom, especially since some random girl was sitting in my seat.  But then...I noticed that the rest of the people in the classroom looked familiar so maybe the random lady at the front of the class was confused.  Then 5:30 hit and no Mr. Tuggle.  Once the lady started passing out tests we sort of got the point...however, it was rather odd that she did not even introduce herself...owell, she was nice other than that.  I was super freaked out about this test.  I made flash cards, printed out the slides and studied for a total of 8 hours over the week.  I even took the test and was convinced I would do horrible, so imagine my astonishment when I received a 90.  I am stoked!! I just hope there was no mistake...I can't wait to see my exam to try and figure out what I did miss and what I did good guessing on :)  I am also kind of curious if we should just study the exams for the final or if we are responsible for knowing everything...any pointers?  I would like to start studying for it now because I have a hard time trying to memorize all of the stuff and understand it fully for this class...so getting a head start on studying seems like the wisest decision for me.  I was planning on writing my blog for the test day on thursday right afterward, but I was so over school and tests (I had 3 tests that day) that I just went home and didn't look at a computer until today, Sunday.  Today was not fun since I live by the beach and it was SUPER windy.  Not only is there sand all over the floors of my house, but I was planning on going to play golf today and ended up having to cancel due to the ridiculous wind.  Relaxing all weekend was good though, since now I am rested and ready to start another LONG week.  Only another 3 semesters to go :)

Novemeber 4

So today's post is about November 4ths class this past Tuesday.  Well, this day started out horrific...I couldn't find where I was supposed to vote so I drove in circles for about one hour and then was late to my math class, but as I exited the elevator I saw my teacher outside since apparently there was a firedrill...weird to have in college but whatever.  Anyway, today's class started out wonderful since we were informed that we did better on the exams than we thought, which is fabulous news to me.  (currently struggling to type since napoleon feels the need to keep walking on my keyboard and licking my computer screen) I enjoyed learning about certain parts of the e-commerce architecture.  I worked for Wells Fargo for 3 years and this section helped to explain how some of the electronic banking system works.  I used to get frustrated at the computer but this helped to explain it a little bit.  I thought listening to the news report about robots playing music was just plain weird.  I mean why on earth would you want to listen to a robot play music, that just seems boring to me, I would much rather listen and watch a live person play music.  Owell, some people are strange.  Reading about how to manage a web store was also pretty interesting.  I know a few people who have clothing stores online and restaurants where you can order food online and what not, so to me this was rather interesting.  I think serving customers and doing it with tact and energy is the number one rule.  You need to constantly be available to them and able to assist them quickly with their online purchases in order to keep loyal customers that will continue to come back and turn into repeat customers.  I think this was one of the most confusing sections that we have had...I feel like a lot of the terms are really similar but have very different meanings.  I am currently studying and find myself struggling to try and keep straight which ones are which. Well I'm done for now I need to keep studying.