Thursday, January 7, 2010

Live Orientation Tweetcast

While attending orientation yesterday I decided on the fly to do an Orientation Tweetcast live from Georgia Tech. Enjoy:

Got a nice little wind breaker material GT messenger style bag, a binder, a name tag and a name text to start the day.about 21 hours ago from Echofon

Swag http://twitpic.com/wxltsabout 21 hours ago from Echofon

Mandatory "prison style" head shot with name tent so everyone knows who we areabout 21 hours ago from Echofon

Interesting mix of students. About 10 over 40 yo, about 20 females, the rest male, varying age range. About 80 students here at the start.about 20 hours ago from Echofon

Peter Severa, Assistant Director of Graduate Programs, welcomes us to the program. Picture book, grad students... Ect....about 20 hours ago from Echofon

Quick overview of everyone in the department... Including some nice photos on the PowerPoint.about 20 hours ago from Echofon

Steve Salibu, dean, very charismaticabout 20 hours ago from Echofon

SS is a Business Ethicist. Good talk about character.about 20 hours ago from Echofon

SS on procrastination: "doing work is less painful than not doing the work"about 20 hours ago from Echofon

SS is "a lazy person trapped in a type A personality" bad comboabout 20 hours ago from Echofon

Registration information for a while...about 20 hours ago from Echofon

I should have eaten lunch... Wow, dragging.about 19 hours ago from Echofon

Thanks iPhone, I registered for class during orientation.about 19 hours ago from Echofon

Food! Lunch break!about 19 hours ago from Echofon

Only thing I see to walk to is arby's a jr. chx sandwich for me, I'll report back in an hour, it is unapproved fast foodabout 19 hours ago from Echofon

Jody Becker, Career Services, talking about opportunity as we advance in our career.about 18 hours ago from Echofon

Thanks Twitter for advancing my social networking, I met @Emmett_mc in person todayabout 18 hours ago from Echofon

Companies who made most offers to recent MBA grads: AT&T, Delta, BoA, and US Airways. Stat: 80% full time MBA grads got offers in 90 daysabout 18 hours ago from Echofon

@danfiru thanks, thought it is something that could be entertaing for meabout 18 hours ago from Echofon in reply to danfiru

Next up: CIBER & International Practicum associate director, Jim Hoadley.about 18 hours ago from Echofon

CIBER connects MBA students with another international student overseas, 4 telecommuting, spring semster trip to said country. ie Japanabout 18 hours ago from Echofon

Evening MBA faculty panel about expectations in the classroom.about 18 hours ago from Echofon

Evening professors: Clarke, Turner, Subramanian and Bond. All brought interesting perspectives on teaching MBA evening students.about 17 hours ago from Echofon

Another break, good timing, unapproved fastfood always a dealbreakerabout 17 hours ago from Echofon

Student Body for evening students speaks, Graduate Evening Management Students (GEMS) explains its rollabout 17 hours ago from Echofon

A student panel discussion. Some real over achievers! Cool mix: IBM, Home Depot, a guy who started his own business with another student.about 17 hours ago from Echofon

Yeah, I asked a question, shoot me! "How many hours outside of class on average do you spend preparing for each class?" Estimate 6-8! Doableabout 16 hours ago from Echofon

Key from current students in evening program, Network Network Network!about 16 hours ago from Echofon

Interesting, a current student is a DJ for an ATL rapper, he is here bc he invented a new type of turntable and wants to take it to market.about 16 hours ago from Echofon

Shameless plug for half.com and amazon.com for a source to buy books cheaper than barnes & noble ga tech book storeabout 16 hours ago from Echofon

Wrapping up orientation, need to get parking permit and buzzcard by the end of the weekabout 16 hours ago from Echofon

Had a cocktail met some awesome people, now off to see @murphface have dinner with @lindsaycmorganabout 15 hours ago from Echofon


That is it, a quick and dirty tweetable version of the Evening MBA Orienation, brought to you January 6, 2009, live from the classroom.

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