The Integrative Stream

First Full Week

One thing I’ve learned this morning is that an accounting textbook, placed between one’s lap and one’s laptop, provides excellent insulation and raises the laptop keyboard to an appropriate typing height. It also contains much valuable information on the subject of financial accounting, but that’s just a nice side benefit.

Last week was the first full week of MBA classes at Sloan, and it has given me the chance to fully reacquaint myself with the word “deliverable.” I’ve also grown to love my Palm Pilot again. That particular device spent most of the summer sitting on the side of my desk, since I seldom had more than one or scheduled events a day. Such simplicity is in the past. Since I’m carrying two devices around again, I’m giving serious thought to chucking my Nokia and switching to either a Treo or one of the latest Windows SmartPhone devices when my TMobile contract comes up next month. Treos and Blackberries are fairly common around Sloan, even though most students don’t strictly need that kind of functionality–now. But they did before, and they will again.