MBA Progress, Federal Election, Gaming Updates

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Received results for another semester of my MBA studies yesterday; a High Distinction for Economic Decision Making and a Distinction for Business Law. With the completion of these two subjects I have now completed a Graduate Diploma of Management (Technology); yay me. With the completion of the two courses I am doing this semester I will have finished all the prerequisites for an MBA, excepting four electives. Although the end is in sight I am already planning further post-graduate studies, planning for another Masters, this time in Education. I do not believe there is any particular shame in being a 'permanent student' (at least it means I am still learning).

For those Aussies who live under a rock, you may have missed the news that a Federal Election has been called. The incumbent Labor government is on a very slight majority - a 2.0% swing would be enough to see the very conservative Tony Abbot taking office. So far I have been impressed with the strategic orientation of Julia Gillard's campaign, even if I disagree with all the specific orientations on the main issues (especially on asylum seekers, where I shared Julian Burnside's considered opinions). The Gillard strategy has been to move Labor to the centre of the country's political outlook, resulting in the main debate being between Labor and the Greens with Abbot becoming quite isolated in the process. Abbott's centrepiece policy - cut government spending - has been poorly received from the appropriate experts in banking and the telecommunications industry.

Finished another session of Mouse Guard/The Enemy Within game tonight, an unusual crossover which is working very well. Two reviews of mine initially planned for simultaneous publication in RPG Review have appeared on RPG.net, namely 3:16 Carnage Amongst The Stars and The Terran Trade Authority RPG. Very impressed with Karl's GURPS Krononaut's game last Sunday as well; involving alternate timelines and the rocket experiments of Wernher von Braun.

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Thank you kindly. Of course, being a perpetual student doesn't mean that one is enrolled in an academic institution all the time.. But is certainly does mean that one is constantly engaging in serious and challenging studying. And that is hard enough.

The real University ... has no specific location. It owns no property, pays no salaries and receives no material dues. The real University is a state of mind. It is that great heritage of rational thought that has been brought down to us through the centuries and which does not exist at any specific location. It's a state of mind which is regenerated throughout the centuries by a body of people who traditionally carry the title of professor, but even that title is not part of the real University. The real University is nothing less than the continuing body of reason itself.

(From Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance)

[loreleilove.livejournal.com]

Wow, it's been so long since I've read that book. I would agree that lifelong learning doesn't necessarily have to happen in a university. The whole world is a university when we allow it to be.