Senior Project
You may have noticed lately that the semester has taken a toll on my blogging attention of late. 
This semester I’m up to 13 credits plus work, and I have even more responsibilities this semester than last. Not the least of these is my senior project. The setup of the class is a really great idea and I applaud NJIT for coming up with a class that challenges the learning that we’ve supposedly spent the last 4+ years cramming into our heads.
The class is combined with Computer Science, Information Science, and Mangagement of Information Sciences majors. Each of these majors have a concentration in a particular area that is modeled to fit into a real-world team situation “when we get out”–CS majors program, MIS majors manage, etc. The idea is to form teams such as would be appropriate in a real-world scenario (mine, for example, is made up of one project manager, two programmers, two system analysts, and a database designer) and tackle a problem. The cool part is, though, that we’re not simply given a hypothetical problem by the school. Instead, they actually go to the trouble of rounding-up “sponsors” who present real needs to the class, which we then attempt to build. Students even have to compete for positions by giving applications to their prospective project managers. It’s a kind of micro-economy.
I struggled with whether or not to become a project manager based on all the other stuff I have to get done during this semester (although, unlike last spring, getting married is thankfully not one of them). In a bout of ambition or stupidity–I’m still deciding which–I applied for and got the job. The project that we’ll be working on is for the university itself, and has exciting implications for the future of the Internet. You can find out about it here: kennsarah.net/project.
So, if you find that this page is rapidly getting stale, you may want to check the other site out. By the way, I’ve mentioned to my wife that her audience is clamoring for her, but she’s been sick in bed this past weekend. I’ll set up a link to the blog-admin site on our home PC, though, and we’ll see what happens. 
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