Thursday, March 15, 2007

GPA and Gap.

FINAL PAPER EXCERPT: The main objective is to keep artistic integrity high while keeping costs relatively low. Strategic planning would be needed to balance Equity players with non-equity, numbers of union hours for tech, and utliziation of up and coming talented designers. The Organization’s subscriber base is very dedicated but is staying numerically stagnant. If they perceived a decrease in quality of programming they could easily be wooed to other theatres in the area...

That's an excerpt from my lovingly constructed final paper for Financial and Strategic Management. The most valuable thing I learned from this class? That you shouldn't pretend to know stuff that you actually don't know. Very costly, according to my professor, Dr. Alan Yaffe. He's pictured below but it's such an old picture that I encourage you to combine it (in your MIND) with the picture of Alan Arkin to get a better picure of his current appearance. He's a GREAT professor---the kind that find the secret recipe to stimulate their students to work really hard by assuming that they should know better and setting standards high. I have two classes with him next quarter and I'm very excited---he will definitely have the biggest and most worthwhile impact on my education at UC.
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Also, I just wanted to say a couple words about Claire Danes. Now, other people across the web have very different opinions about Ms. Danes. I personally really enjoy her and assumed that it was not her on the new Gap ad, just a look-alike nobody. But I was wrong! And I think she's a great dancer. I bet she can't sing though. Anyways, she's still gorgeous and she died like a pro in Little Women.
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1 comment:

nydampress said...

Wouldn't it be great if one day your teacher was thinking "What is this mangle dangle internet everyone is talking about" and he decided to look up his own name on Google, leading him to this post. Then he would sit back and remember "ah yes Ruth, one of my most captivating students..."