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So I went to my second class on Monday. I still had not finished my homework from the the first class since the deadline for it was extended out to Tuesday night. I took the time instead to read the required 3 chapters for our second class.

In class we discussed the various methods and structures that surround project management that had been covered in the chapters that I read. After that our Professor went into the details about the term project that we were going to have to complete.

I was assigned to a group that had 4 other individuals in it. Our task is to come up with a project plan that will cover a fund raising event for a community center’s after school music program. We are given a budget of $5000 to work with.

At first I did not know if this was a real event that we needed to plan and was a little concerned. The other people in my group obviously had been through a similar exercise before and assured me that it was all mock. What is real though is that we do have to find a community center to understand what we would have to work with. The other thing is that this is supposed to be a fund raiser so we really do not want to touch any of the budgeted $5000 if we do not have to.

Anyway, it looks like a pretty cool project and the people on my team are really reeving to go so that is a good thing. This class is pretty interesting and I find myself thinking of issues that I deal with at work while they are bringing up some of the concepts that they are talking about. There hasn’t been anything tangible that I can use yet but I am hoping that there will be in the coming weeks.

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