I hope that everyone had a great Easter weekend?  I have a little quasi Easter story that I wanted to share.

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On Friday I had the honor of talking to 7^th and 8^th graders at Bell Street Middle School in Clinton, SC.  Bell Street Middle is your quintessential public school in a regular town in the southern United States.  A group of hard working teachers attempting to educate young minds in a world that is changing so quickly that it is challenging to keep up.  George Goings, who is the father of my roommate in college, had me over to talk with his Career Ed students.  Career Ed is a program where kids are exposed to some important experiences about preparing to find a job.  This includes everything from deciding what you would like to be when you grow up to preparing your resume.  Part of this process involves speakers coming from various fields to talk about their work with the kids.  That is where I come in.  I found the visit extremely interesting.  If you noticed the flurry of comments on some of my resent posts, it looks like some of the students explored my blog a little.

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I just read a post over on Eric Stoller’s blog about the many jobs that he has had.  I thought what a great idea and a wonderful way for readers to know a little bit more about this guy who claims to be a .eduGuru!  So Eric here’s responding to your question and to any readers, I think I might have a few of you out there, here is a little information about me.

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I just finished reading The Baseball Economist: The Real Game Exposed the other night.  If you’re not a baseball fan then you can skip the rest of this post without offending me.  Besides being a book about something that I love, this book was written by a Wofford alum!  All the more reason to reason to read it!  The author J.C. Bradbury runs an interesting blog, Sabernomics, where he writes all sorts of interesting baseball articles. Sometimes they are specifically Atlanta Braves related articles, but they run the gamut from free agent player values to, and most recently, the steroid situation.

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Following Matt, Jeremy, and Mark’s introduction posts.  It’s only fitting that I do the same.

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Ok so the obvious question is why do I think that I should start a blog?  A few months ago I came across a blog post about reasons to blog that really hit home.  At the time it all sounded good, but I instantly realized that being a blogger isn’t for everyone.  I think one thing that any competent professional wants to do is to grow them self, we all know that personal knowledge is everyone’s most important asset.  Although I don’t have all the reasons that are listed to blog a few of them definitely stand out. Read the rest of this entry »