Studying Anxiety

So, some of you don't know....I'm pursuing a 2ND Master's degree right now. So, doin this I am really focusing on a career transition from programmer to consultant in the IT Industry. Not really on the programming side, but really focusing on the strategy that one needs to align their business and IT functions to maximize productivity. <-- That was kind of a mouthful.

But, as any good graduate student. Anxiety ensues during finals week. Unfortunately, at DePaul there are 4 finals weeks every year (quarter-based school).

Yesterday was spent toiling away on an Internet Application in ASP and C# (12 hours). You can see those efforts at: this location. I know....not really a VISUAL spectacle. But, trust me....this is well beyond the scope of the class. And I don't even know ASP.

Schedule this week:

• Tuesday:


• MIS 798: Business Architecting Presentation


• Presenting to the Illinois Humane Society


• Strategic Value-Add Propositin for the next 4 year. Healthy lifestyle choices for 8-12 year olds. How? Why? Where? When? Who?


• Wednesday:


• MKT 595: FINAL EXAM


• Covering topics like:


• Second Life and Virtual Worlds (this reminds me of Johnny Mnemonic and a little known TV show VR.5.


• Competition on the Internet - "Internet Speed"


• Mobile Marketing (Fat Client vs. Thin Client techniques)


• Internet Retailing


• Analytics Gathering for e-Commerce (KPI Reporting Tools)


• "Cookies" Why do we need them???


• Caching. Is it good? Bad? Who is it good for? Definitely not people wanting to know who visits the site....
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• How to approach a marketing email....(best practices)


• Marketing channels on the Internet.


• Social Networking. What are the advantages of these sites for marketeers....
  Maybe some of the site that different age groups frequent.


• User-Generated Content on the internet. Podcasts...VCasts, YouTube, etc.


• Kirkpatrick & Phillips Model (this seems applicable across anything...not just marketing)


• Copyrights


• DRM


• Privacy


• Security


• Thursday:


• IT 430: Building Internet Applications


• Presenting the website


• maybe I'll have time to improve the looks of it...because it just looks bad.


• definitely need to come up with some better test data.



• Friday:


• GOTTA PARTAYY...and get ready for the SUMMER SESSION which starts next Monday.

Fortunately, no grading until next week either.

Unfortuately, grading next week. (gotta take advantage of my existing skills somehow)

Goodwill efforts: helping my athletes from this year train over the summer.