Playstation 3: A Discount Supercomputer

Wow! You heard it with Cheryl Hile first.

Over the weekend, I heard a story on the radio about PS3s being bought by academic institutions for research purposes. They take the PS3s and turn them into supercomputers.

If I hadn't heard Cheryl talk about it first, I might have turned the dial. But, because I had the benefit of the Financial Administration Career Panel, this story resonated with me.

Maybe it'll resonate with you too...

Check it out: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=100969805

Setting Goals

Setting Goals was the name of the game at Wednesday, February 18th's UExplore session. Claire Solario returned as a featured guest presenter and laid out a few great tips/tricks to help us:

1) lay out short- and long-term goals
2) prioritize those goals
3) be prepared to take action and face road blocksOne of the activities involved a stream-of-consciousness brainstorming session where we wrote down any and all goals we had in the categories: physical/health, family, socially, mental/intellect, financial, vocational, spiritual, other.Jane Peterson, Ricardo Escalante, and Brian Pierini thought critically about their goals.Wow! And what a lot of goals we had. How could we possibly accomplish all of these goals?
One way to prioritize is through "tournamenting". With tournamenting, UExplore participants made forced choices. Pitting one goal against another, the participants had to choose the goal that was more important. After doing this over and over again, the participants would end up with a few of the most important goals.

For some in the session, tournamenting was a useful tool for honing down objectives and taking selective action on the ones that mattered most.

Survey Monkey's Itchin' For Ya...

All of your opinions are important and help shape our program.

Please consider answering both of these surveys by today.

Career Connection: Goal Setting by Claire Solario
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=hOUzcrFtGkCEELMuB6ULKw_3d_3d

Financial Administration Overview & Career Panel Presentation http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=qLUzu3TSuTBZW3zKAS_2fMuA_3d_3d

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Survey Monkey!

Please consider answering both of these surveys by Friday, February 20th.

Tell us what you thought
about yesterday’s presentations focusing on
Goal Setting and the
Financial Administration career field.

Career Connection: Goal Setting by Claire Solario
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=hOUzcrFtGkCEELMuB6ULKw_3d_3d

Financial Administration Overview & Career Panel Presentation
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=qLUzu3TSuTBZW3zKAS_2fMuA_3d_3d

Online Enrollment for Multiple UExplore Sessions

Good morning!

I hope you all had lovely weekends and are as excited as myself about tomorrow’s presentations featuring the topics:

• Goal Setting
• Financial Administration Career Field Overview
• Financial Administration Career Panel

I’ve included a few links for upcoming UExplore events in February, March, and April.

Please register for all of them.

February
Goal Setting: https://enrollmentcentral.ucsd.edu/sed_course.cfm?&cdcrs=XCGSETUXPL
Financial Admin: https://enrollmentcentral.ucsd.edu/sed_course.cfm?&cdcrs=XUXPLORFIN

March
Academic Personnel: https://enrollmentcentral.ucsd.edu/sed_course.cfm?&cdcrs=XUEPLORACD
Your Listening Profile: Link is coming soon

April
Networking: https://enrollmentcentral.ucsd.edu/sed_course.cfm?&cdcrs=XNITPSUXPL
Program Admin: https://enrollmentcentral.ucsd.edu/sed_course.cfm?&cdcrs=XUXPLORPRG


***If these links do not work for you, please just sign in on the hardcopy sheet so that we can record your attendance
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This is not homework

If you'd like to look at the Career Connection exercises ahead of time....

well,

then,

you are in luck!

I've posted the Career Connection handout for the topic Setting Goals and the Setting Goals PowerPoint Presentation on the Academic Afairs UExplore website

All in all, there are 7 pages of activities in the handout to help you plan your short- and long-term professional goals. The subject headings for these pages include:

• Identifying Your Values
• Identifying Your Future Accomplishments
• S.M.A.R.T Goal-Setting
• Goal Activity Worksheet (Qty: 3)

Getting a taste of these handouts before the next session may be your cup of tea if you're one of those folks who like to be "in the know" or enjoy having more time to complete a task.

This is definitely not homework--just a proactive response to meet the needs for various types of learners.

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