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The Burj Khalifa-Tower of Babel Revisited

January 4, 2010

Today there was a big opening ceremony of Burj Khalifa “supertall” skyscraper in Dubai – the tallest building in the world. It is 2717 -foot (828 meters) tall. It beats the next tallest building in the world, Taipei 101 at 509 meters, by over 60%. The Burj Khalifa is probably going to keep its title [...]

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Robert H.Smith – a Man behind the UMD Business School Name

January 3, 2010

On the New Year Eve I received an email from the Jewish Federation of Greater Washington about passing away of Robert H. Smith. The letter was recollecting many great philantropic deeds of the man and his contribution to the Jewish community locally and worldwide. It did not mention explicitely his relation to the University of Maryland Business School. So [...]

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NY City Musements – New York Trip, Part 2

December 29, 2009

Some more amusing stuff about New York city from our holiday trip. When I say “amusing”, you need to keep in mind that it is amusing from a “countryman’s” perspective of a suburban Washington, DC dweller. So these are the “amusing” things in New York for me. The NY city residents just take it as a [...]

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New Jersey Full Service Gas Station – First Stop on New York Trip

December 28, 2009

On Sunday we had a day trip to New York. The main goal was to get the feel for New York during the holidays. While getting this experience we visited the Central Park Zoo and the Christmas tree at the Rockefeller Center. Time in between was just gettting back and forth between the two destinations with [...]

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Part-time MBA Fall Term Graded

December 23, 2009

Today I received my last grades for the second half term in fall semester. This makes it closed both officially and emotionally I am happy that I made it through. My GPA is actually still over 3, inspite of my little snafu with Financial Accounting-II. Hurray and on into the winter break and celebration time! I mentioned [...]

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Mobile Phone for Part-time MBAer

December 21, 2009

I have been resisting the fad of getting a fancy latest model mobile phone ever since I got the very first one. I am not a heavy phone user by any standards. I don’t need, neither do I want to be hooked up 24/7 via talk, texting, e-mail and so forth. I have always looked [...]

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Big Dig-out Sunday in DC Area

December 20, 2009

As I wrote a few weeks ago, this winter could be a snowy one. This weekend it was officially confirmed. I did not check the news lately if this ended up to be an officially record-breaking snowfall for DC area, but they did forecast this could be the case. At any rate we do have a lot of snow. It started late Friday [...]

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Flash Mob Revelation

December 15, 2009

It probably just illustrates how outdated I am, but until today I did not know what “flash mob” means. I probably heard it before, but never was qurious enough even to find out its meaning. I thought that may be it is somehow connected to web designers’ community working with flash animation. Funny, ha? One consolation is that [...]

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Holiday Party – MBA Is not “All Work, No Fun”

December 12, 2009

I admit, I tend to take my MBA classes quite seriously. It is especially true, because, being a “poet” I have to struggle quite a bit with my quantitative subjects. So I have to spend considerably more time to get those done, while some of my classmates breeze right through it with minimum effort. That said, one [...]

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Whole Foods Market And Brand Differentiation

December 9, 2009

The other day on my way to work I had a sugar craving. I decided to stop by at the store to pick up a doughnut for breakfast. When I have such cravings occasionaly, I usually stop at the Giant Supermarket. This time I decided to check out what the doughnuts are like in Whole [...]

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Business School News Sources

November 30, 2009

These days I do not really have time to read news about the Business Schools developments a lot. I still skim the headlines and read semi-regualarly. Now I am more concerned with my immediate MBA environment. But when I was in my preparation stage for part-time MBA I was more hungry for that kind of news and [...]

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MBA Recess

November 27, 2009

When instructor in Financial Accounting II told us at the very first session that we would not have a class on Wednesday before Thanksgiving, and we would have to learn material for that week on our own, I felt a bit dissappointed. First, because for me personally the face time in the classroom is very [...]

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Great Sushi Place Right off the GWU Campus

October 31, 2009

This week it was my wife’s birthday. Fortunately for me, it fell on the day when I had no classes in the evening, so we could enjoy our family time uninterrupted. As has been our tradition for the last few years, I took the family to a sushi place

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Laptop Selection and Microeconomics Final Grade

October 24, 2009

Today, since I did not have homework to do, I felt more relaxed and stopped by at the “Best Buy” to look at the available laptops. So far, I have not had my personal laptop, but I already anticipate that a laptop becomes more of a need, than just convenience with my progressing MBA studies. [...]

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