Happy Holidays

Happy Holidays!!!

It's been a while since my last post. I've been tied up with end of semester activities for the negotiation and engineering economics class. It's been a busy last month with an econ case, negotiation paper, graded negotiation, and two quizzes. It's been a long month but now it's done and in the past. Looking back at this semester, I must admit that I got my money worth (if not more). I never realized how much there was to negotiation. Initially I thought it was just a matter of haggling and being stubborn. But after taking the negotiation course, I learned the many dimensions involved in a successful negotiation. In addition, the engineering economics was very interesting. What made this course even more enjoyable was the environment (the slumping economy and failing financial institutions) that we were in while taking this course. I must say that the professor (Dr. Duvic) did a great job of bringing outside resources to apply to what we were learning and to reality. I think one of the most valuable things I got out of this course was the concept of time value of money. It bought a different perspective to investment and money management. In the end, these courses provided skills applicable to any environment and situation.

There is officially about 1 1/2 days remaining until Christmas. So how many people still involved in last minute Christmas shopping? Well good luck.... I hope that everyone has a great holiday season and a happy new year, and I'll talk to you soon.