Another Semester Gone By

As things begin to wrap up for the beginning of the semester in a week or so I find myself busier than ever. I don't know why this happens but it seems that the world, and college professors, seems to conspire to destroy the lives of students at that most stressful and critical moment of preparing for and finishing finals. As college becomes ever hectic, and even more so with all of the added responsibilities of being married and having to work basically full time, I find myself trying to think positively as a way to keep my head above water, metaphorically speaking. As I've reflected a little on things that help me to overcome I remembered having heard a talk from David A. Bednar, one of the twelve apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, in which he voiced some very positive advice. He simply stated to the audience that if he could have the wish of his heart, that he would take every single individual aside and tall them that "you can do this". He then went on to testify of all of the various spiritual and religious elements that make that statement valid but I just loved the simplicity and earnestness of his statement, "you can do this". I guess I that I too would echo those words, if you ever are in need of a respite, if you ever feel that you can't go any further, if you feel that you would rather cease to exist than take on the seemingly impossible challenges that lay before you; just know that "you can do this".

Remote Meeting Blog Post

To all of my devoted followers out there, this post is strictly to fulfill a class assignment... So excuse the boring content. So 3BMD is the group that I'm apart of for this assignment and essentially we needed to have a "mobile meeting", or rather just meet through a medium like Skype or Hangouts through Google, etc. So we all connected up and met and discussed our project which was a business consulting proposal for Delta Airlines. For this project we reviewed and analyzed a number of complaints that people had filed with Delta Airlines and then brainstormed a variety of ideas and ultimately came up with a list of recommendations for how Delta could fix their problems. So as a team we just discussed the results of our presentation and findings, seeing as we had already given our presentation. I have to say that meeting in any other form rather than in person is difficult for me when something as important as a large grade is on the line. That being said I do realize that mobile meetings certainly are effective, especially if you are a part of an international organization and need to be able to meet with someone without have to add on the cost and time of traveling to see them. So overall the remote meeting was certainly an effective way to communicate once we had gotten past all of the technical difficulties, but I would still prefer to meet in person if that option is available.