Showing posts with label Corporate Finance. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Corporate Finance. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 11, 2009

The Modern-day Classroom

Landon just received his grade for the Corporate Finance class he took online.  He scored an A+!

Way to go Landon! 

The crazy part is that he started the course in December, and the first quiz was scheduled for the same time we were going to be in Venice.  No worries though, my brilliant mathematician-husband nonchalantly decides that he'll find an Internet cafe and take the quiz there.  When we arrive, he easily finds a local cafe located walking distance from our hotel, takes the quiz, and happily returns to his wife, kids, and Italian pizza.

Within days, we are aboard the cruise ship.  The class is still running its course.  It has not stopped for our Christmas vacation.  So, in the middle of the Mediterranean,  aboard the cruise ship, my dear hubby turns in an assignment and takes another quiz in the ship's Internet lounge.  At night, he simultaneously studies and helps Erik fall asleep by walking him back and forth in the stroller--one hand guides the stroller while the other holds open the textbook.  

At the beginning of my lifetime, none of this was possible, and unimaginable to most. Funny, I almost can't remember life without the Internet.  Where will we be in another 32 years?