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Archive for August, 2007

I love to see things from a different perspective.

Posted August 31st @ 12:20 am by Zach Gilliam

Tonight, the Google News gadget on my iGoogle page popped up a story from Al Jazeera English. Of course this caught my eye and so I read the story - and I enjoyed it.
It wasn’t really about the content for me (even though I did enjoy it!), but it was all about seeing a U.S. […]

youtube wednesday

Posted August 29th @ 9:16 am by Zach Gilliam

This has got to be the best one yet!

Jeff, thanks for sending this one my way!!

… just another Tuesday

Posted August 29th @ 12:16 am by Jeff Riles

7:30 - Wake Up
7:45 - Gym - naturally my work out buddy Austin wasn’t there this morning. He owes me dinner
8:30 - Shower
9:00 - Alvin’s Cafe for some Cafe Mocha and the NY Times - compliments of Student Senate
9:25 - Call from VP of Student Affairs for OCU about interviewing with Lt. Gov. Jari […]

Quotable

Posted August 27th @ 11:14 am by Zach Gilliam

“One of the errors that we make is that we always assume the rate of innovation that we have seen thus far is capped, and we don’t accurately see that it is accelerating…”
-Eric Schmidt (CEO of Google) at Progress and Freedom Foundation Aspen Summit

What I learend in class today …

Posted August 24th @ 10:23 am by Jeff Riles

1 in 6 children live in poverty
1 in 8 children have no health insurance
31 % of fourth graders read at or above grade level
3 million children are reported abused or neglected every year
1 in 10 teenagers is a school dropout
8 children die from gunfire daily
3 out of 5 children under the age of 6 are […]

Papers, Papers, and ePapers

Posted August 23rd @ 10:38 am by Jeff Riles

I now in my upper level courses have to write at least 2 papers a week. IT SUCKS! But I love what I’m studying.
This does ironically bring up this issue of being environmentally friendly - ok, not really, I just want my classes to be more web based! And thank God, one of the classes […]

My class schedule

Posted August 23rd @ 10:31 am by Jeff Riles

In case you were wondering what incredible classes I’m taking:
Yoga (the jury is still out on how I feel about this class)
Politics and the Law
Juvenile Delinquency
State and Local Government
Introduction to Christian Ethics
Intermediate German Studies
I love school.

youtube wednesday: Simpsons on YouTube

Posted August 22nd @ 11:06 pm by Zach Gilliam

Going the extra mile.

Posted August 21st @ 6:22 pm by Zach Gilliam

People rarely get fired for good enough, which is a shame. - Seth Godin
I started school back up this week and I am going to have to constantly remind myself of that principle this semester. In most areas of my life, completing things with a high level of excellence is natural for me. However, […]

School Schedule for the Semester

Posted August 20th @ 5:20 pm by Zach Gilliam

Start school up on Tuesday, so here is my schedule in case you are curious.

Business Communication (9am T/Th) - OU
Statistics (1:30pm T/Th) - OU
Business Calculus II (3pm T/Th) - OU
Micro Economics (Online) - OU
PC Productivity Tools (Online) - OU [don’t get me started on this one!]
Accounting I (Online) - OCCC
Macro Economics (Saturdays in […]

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