Carnegie Mellon West Software Management Blog
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Dan is an IT Systems Architect at Boeing and a first-year grad student in the MS Software Management program. He loves reading , biking, and hanging out with friends over a cup of coffee. Most importantly though, he loves education! And thinks the ability to learn is one of the greatest things about people. His favorite quote is “A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimensions.”
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Friday, December 7, 2007
It's paying off already!
Well it’s been some time since I’ve written. A lot has gone on! Though my coursework in Metrics has kept me quite busy, it’s sure paid off at work. In only 14 weeks, I’ve already been promoted and asked to be on an enterprise-wide committee. It hasn’t come really, from people hearing about me being in a master’s program, so much as it’s come from the skills I’ve been learning being turned right around and used at work to gain some very valuable visibility. I’ve often heard it said that the measure of a man is not measured in the length of his knowledge, but the width of his actions. I’ve certainly found that to be true, especially at Carnegie Mellon West. A lot of masters degrees I think, are geared towards knowledge collection, be it preparation for a PhD or more of an intellectual pursuit of sorts. But Carnegie Mellon West in contrast is very much geared towards knowledge through application. One does become a great academic, going through some interesting material, but it’s all things that can be directly applied to your work the next day! This isn’t a masters where you can read a book and call it a day, oh no my friend, much is expected and in turn a whole lot is learned. This isn’t ground school you might say, it’s more like the actual flight lessons. “Learn by doing” is no doubt an unofficial motto, because I’ve seen it throughout the program so far. A lot of my classmates have become friends as well, which naturally comes from spending 5-10 hrs a week in sessions with 3-4 people. I have no doubt these connections will last me far beyond the program, and getting this kind of insight has been great as well. I very much look forward to seeing what the final presentations look like, and how my classmates take what they’re learning in the work force and apply to the material we’ve been given. It’ll not only give me an insight into the minds people at companies like Yahoo, and Google but will also help me hone my own skills here at Boeing. Until next time, Daniel Maycock
posted by Dan Maycock @ 10:37 AM
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