Posts Tagged ‘work’

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    The Dog Ate My Paper! (hard drive nightmares)
    We’ve heard hundreds of horror stories of students losing their paper. Whether it is computer theft or a hard drive crashing, we are all vulnerable to loss of intellectual property. Days, even months of work can disappear in an instant. Each term we exhort students to back up their data frequently, but faculty members are just as guilty of not taking the necessary...
    by Brian Schmitt at December 1st, 2009 at 06:12 pm
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    Seminary Student – Faith at Work
    Through one of the numerous blogs I track on  google reader I picked up on a pretty amazing post by Timmy Brister about sharing his story on the graveyard shift.  It is pretty amazing.  I’ve worked in a warehouse before and I could see and hear everything he described.  Timmy is a student at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, a husband, a father,...
    by W. Ryan Burns at March 9th, 2008 at 12:03 am
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    The Art of Distraction
    I am the KING of being distracted. However, I tend to be distracted by things that are actually important. The bad thing about that is I feel justified and guilty at the same time. I find myself having a plan for the day and easily diverting from that plan in order to accomplish something that, yes needs to be done, but yet isn’t on the plan. For example, I’m...
    by W. Ryan Burns at February 22nd, 2008 at 01:02 am
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    Life is hectic
    My apologies for being absent the past few days. As any seminarian will tell you, life is hectic. In preparation for our departure for seminary in January, I’ve been working full time at a start-up company in my town helping them with system/process management and optimization; preparing the company for, what I think is, its soon approaching tipping point. While...
    by W. Ryan Burns at November 14th, 2007 at 07:11 pm