Anniversary and Week 3

Hello everyone and welcome back. I know it has been awhile since the last post and i apologize but i think i will be more regular now that i have figured out my schedule for doing work. Hopefully every ones spring semester is going well and that you are ready to register for the summer semester which i believe registration begins next week but i will verify in a later post. Today's main topics are anniversary and what motivates us.

This past weekend was my 2 year wedding anniversary. It has not been at all the best two years from a financial point of view but the good thing is i think it is building character in our marriage. A lot of stuff has gone on over the past two years including the birth of both my children, starting Berkeley College and a whole bunch of boring stuff that i will not mention. Through it all i did not have a relapse of a bipolar episode or did i once think this was not going to last. See i have always been a pessimist so the only think i keep telling myself is the prize at the end will be worth it. That's what has kept me going through my marriage and through going to school full time. Any Primetime student will tell you that it is physically taxing to work full time and go to school full time. It is even more taxing physically, mentally and emotionally when you are a parent. Having to balance all these jobs is very difficult in it of itself. Yet my motivation are the two smiles i get when i come home from my children. They keep me energized and wanting to finish what i have started.

When you have children your whole world changes. Your focus changes and that anything you do is for your children solely. As i told my wife our marriage can end at anytime but the one constant is our children and all we do will be for them and them only. Hearing daddy from Rebecca and dada from Jose keeps me going more than any energy drink out there and that is how i get through it. So any students out there whether your primtime, daytime or online and you are feeling a little tired sit back and realize what is your motivation? When you need an energy boost just remember why you are doing, what you are doing? If you cannot answer that question then you may want to look to see what is your motivations.

Week 3 is upon us and that means we are a quarter of the way through and approaching midterm week. So far a lot of information has been thrown at us and it is time to start dissecting and putting stuff together in order to better prepare ourselves for the midterm. So far I have learned a lot about Information Systems and Finance. Finance appears to be another math class that uses a lot of ratios and formulas that i hope that the professor will give us for the exam. Information Systems appears to be packed with a lot of information and hopefully I will be able to dissect it enough in order to do a term project on it. This is my first semester that i have two group projects. One group project is in Information Systems and the other is in Finance.

Now it is time for the Rebecca and Jose corner. As part of our anniversary we took Rebecca to the Bronx zoo on Saturday. She loved it especially the monkeys as that is her favorite animal. She loved it so much she kept my mother in law up by making animal noises in her sleep. Jose is not in a good mood as his two top teeth are trying to break through. I am hoping they come through with in the next couple of days so that he can be back to being a happy boy. Anyway that is all for now stay tuned to next time when i update Professor Montlacks book information and his appearances.

New Semester, New Ideas

Hello everyone. Finals week has gone and passed and i did ok. Unfortunately i suffered my first C+ but it didn't drop my GPA to much. We are now in the Spring semester and I am looking forward to all the classes that I am taking this semester. I am taking 4 classes, three at a building and one online. It is my first online class so anyone that has taken online classes i would love to hear feedback such as what are good professors to take and not to. On a side note i want to shout out a professor that is having some big things coming this month. Awhile back you may remember i interviewed a professor named Michael Montlack. He is an English professor that teaches Oral Communication among other English classes. Well this month his new book My Diva : 65 Gay Men on the Women Who Inspire Them has been released. You can order your copy from Amazon.com and Barnes and Noble. He has two public appearances promoting the book one of them is April 27th at the Barnes and Noble located at 2289 Broadway, 82nd & Broadway. There will also be a Big Diva event on May 13th. There is also a possibility for an event at Berkeley College so pay attention to the posters around the campus and come out to support our professor.

This is the first week of classes for the Spring semester and i have gone through 3 out of 4. The interesting thing about my schedule is that i have Finance and Finite Mathematics back to back. The reason why it is interesting is both classes are math classes. What makes it more interesting is there were only two Finance classes for night students, one on Tuesday and the other on Thursday, sandwiching the Finite mathematics class. Personally i think that is too much math in to little of time frame. The last class i have taken so far is Management Information Systems. I got the textbook for that class yesterday and after reading the table of contents it appears to be a great class. I think a lot of the chapters will apply to what i am experiencing right now with the move to the new building. One of the chapters is on telecommunications and networks and deciding what to use. This is key as my task so far in the new building is to punch down phone wire. Obviously decisions were made to use certain types of phone blocks, what type of cable to use, etc. I am hoping that this class will give me a little more of an inside view into a managers mind as i hopefully will be in that position on day.

The class that still remains is my network management course. I bought the textbook and started looking at what it has in store. I actually brought it into work to show my server administrator and he turned to me and said, "are you trying to take me job?" I said, "no but someone has to know what is going on in the new building when it comes to servers," and he agreed. My hope is that this class will prepare me to be a good server administrator, especially when we move into the building.

Now it is time for the Rebecca and Jose corner. Well Rebecca is getting ever so close to her second birthday. Jose continues to grow and is crawling all over the place. One day me and my wife were sitting watching TV and Jose was in the kitchen playing with the soda bottles. No more than 2 or 3 minutes later it went quiet and me and my wife looked at each other knowing that silence and kids don't mean something good. So i look in the kitchen and he is no where to be found so i go hunting for Jose. I found him all the way in our bedroom! All me and my wife could do was laugh. Well that is all for now i will see you guys next time.