Course 7-Chicago-Next Week

[Miss Congeniality]

Originally Posted by gnash

To be a smart alec, you are assuming it was a HE.

Originally Posted by gnash

Ha Ha......I am also assuming you are a SHE! :P

But your right. HE failed, ........

You are correct. I am assuming it was a HE exactly because I am a SHE.

Only joking. Now watch me fail next week.

[Wigmeister General]

It's cold in Chicago.

Updated: 7:53 AM CST on December 04, 2003
Observed at Chicago Midway, Illinois
Temperature 36 °F / 2 °C
Windchill 29 °F / -2 °C
Humidity 65%
Dew Point 25 °F / -4 °C
Wind East at 9 mph / 14.5 km/h
Wind Gust -
Pressure 30.22 in / 1023 hPa (Steady)
Conditions Overcast
Visibility 10 miles / 16 kilometers
Clouds
(Above Ground Level) Scattered Clouds (SCT) : 4000 ft / 1221 m
Overcast (OVC) : 10000 ft / 3050 m

[/quote]Only joking. Now watch me fail next week.

Nahhhhhhh..........with a 97% pass rate, as long as we jump when the Society says "jump", we'll do just fine.

It's cold in Chicago.

Unfortunately, I don't think there will be much time to leave the hotel.

Can't figure out how to use the formating tools on this site.......


Maybe I AM in trouble.......

[hackett]

Ubayday: TIME: I also finished in 9.5 hrs (wasn't it great that Boston pulled out of the power grid in the last second?). Was slow only in the first hour, then worked reasonably fast. Ergo: 10 hrs is adequate time, don't try to bring it down to 6-7. Take breaks.

PRINTING. There were several printers and generally no line to print, but I wouldn't wait with it for the last minute. The instructors gave a good advice: print a rough draft after 5 hrs, try finish by hour 9.

STRUCTURE. No general rule, just my experience with manuscripts.
I spin everything around the supporting materials, and generally go backwards, from Conclusions to Introduction and Summary. Pick 3-4-5 Tables and Figures, make points from each. These are the my conclusions. At least one is a business recommendation - "discontinue sales".

Results section again is around Figures/tables. Touch upon Fig1, then Fig2, then compare the two. Make the first Point. The Conclusions section simply repeats these Points.

Introduction for me was more challenging. I had to explain what the area was, the product features etc. so I used cut and paste from the extended case study. Then the reason for writing the report - "senior management wants to assess blabla" - usually a f/up on a previous study.

Then Materials and Methods - again clear-cut, don't forget listing strengths & weaknesses of each model. Then the Summary and the lists of references, figures and tables. For me this going "backwards" is the fastest. You're free to try any other order. Good luck.

[hackett]

Pasting figures: It's trivial for most people, but when you paste a graph from Excel to Word or PowerPoint, use PasteSpecial - Picture, otherwise, the size grows too big too fast. This will complicate saving and printing during the test.