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I haven't updated in a while, mostly because there is not much time left between classes and work to do anything else. Yes, you heard it right. The "Broke Finance Major" is not so broke anymore. Adelphi Information Technology Department was kind enough to give me a job. Its a lot of interesting work. I definitely have learned a lot this semester.

Anyway, I'm here to share a certain story with you. The story includes two main characters. The first character is familiar t… Continue

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During my second Ethics class, I realized that students weren't reading the newspaper regularly. All of the events that we watch and analyze every day at American Express didn't exist in the students' world. Now more than ever, Ethics is making front page news every day and I wanted to give them a real world view of why Ethics is important and how it's used and considered outside of the classroom.

As an assignment, I asked each of them to bring in some type of news article, on any subject, that… Continue

After last week's class on newspaper topics, I was getting back to the curriculum. Or at least I thought I was. Some of the students felt badly about not bringing in a story the week before. One student in particular, Starling, loves to talk. He loves raising his hand and de-railing conversations with wacky questions. On occasion I ask him to please make his questions relevant to the topic at hand. He loves questions that start with "What if..." Most of the time, I take his questions and we run… Continue