Return of the MAC.
It's been a few months since I touched this thing, but I figured that with a change of scenery, the time was right to begin again...again.
I will be spending the next 14 weeks in Hopewell, VA, just outside Fort Lee. I'm down here to take the Operations Research/Systems Analysis Military Applications Course (ORSAMAC). I've been with the Army as an analyst for almost 21 months. If this course doesn't give me a decent idea of what being an ORSA in the Army is all about, nothing will. I don't think I've not done ORSA stuff, but I don't feel like it's been a big part of my job. I want to do well here, get course credit for grad school, and improve my prospects for my next assignment, wherever it ends up being.
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Today was administrivia (that should definitely be a word in Webster's, instead of "ginormous") and intro to Probability. Refresher for me, but a lot of the military guys in the class haven't dealt with it before. There's only three or four civilians, with the rest being military, and most of them seemed to have business degrees (I did hear one accounting and one industrial engineering). I don't mind helping the military guys with this stuff. I tutor on the side for Kaplan; I like to help math make sense to people.
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I haven't really explored the area yet. Been a little busy setting my room up, buying food, yadda yadda. I might stick around this weekend, I might not.
I will be spending the next 14 weeks in Hopewell, VA, just outside Fort Lee. I'm down here to take the Operations Research/Systems Analysis Military Applications Course (ORSAMAC). I've been with the Army as an analyst for almost 21 months. If this course doesn't give me a decent idea of what being an ORSA in the Army is all about, nothing will. I don't think I've not done ORSA stuff, but I don't feel like it's been a big part of my job. I want to do well here, get course credit for grad school, and improve my prospects for my next assignment, wherever it ends up being.
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Today was administrivia (that should definitely be a word in Webster's, instead of "ginormous") and intro to Probability. Refresher for me, but a lot of the military guys in the class haven't dealt with it before. There's only three or four civilians, with the rest being military, and most of them seemed to have business degrees (I did hear one accounting and one industrial engineering). I don't mind helping the military guys with this stuff. I tutor on the side for Kaplan; I like to help math make sense to people.
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I haven't really explored the area yet. Been a little busy setting my room up, buying food, yadda yadda. I might stick around this weekend, I might not.