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Ready to study business

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We heard from our niece in Chicago earlier today. She was calling to say “Happy Canada Day”.

It was nice to hear from her. We had a nice long talk – something we don’t get to do very often.

I don’t know if I mentioned it on this blog, but sometime in the winter my niece had called me asking me about Gmat prep courses. Now I must admit that at the time I didn’t really even know what a Gmat was, but I did some research on the internet and suggested a few places where she could enroll for a gmat prep course online.

She took the course at Knewton. Actually she just finished her course and she wanted to let us know that she did really well and that she was really happy with the company. She took advantage of the live teaching hours and said she was quite happy with the abundance of practice tests that she was able to do. Now she feels ready to continue her business studies.

I think we might get to see our niece in a couple of weeks. She and her dad and her two brothers might be coming to the Toronto area for a visit. It’ll be nice to see them.





A great day for gardening and barbecuing

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It was such a nice day today! My husband had today off since it’s Good Friday so we took advantage of the great weather (24 C! 75 F unheard of temps here in Toronto for early April) and spent several hours outside tidying up the garden.

We spent a lot of time working on the garden beds in the front of the house. Of course this is always slow going because we know a LOT of our neighbors so we were stopping to talk to them briefly every so often.

While we were outside we saw our old awful renter neighbors drive by a few times. They seem to be hanging out at a house down a side street that’s opposite our house so we can see them quite easily. Since our old neighbors and the people they are hanging out with are basically criminals my husband and I thinking of putting in some kind of security system … maybe one of those wireless security systems of course we’ll have to price it out, but with people like that hanging around we’ll feel better knowing we have a security system.

After we were finished tidying up the front garden beds and moving a few plants around (ever try digging up a rose that’s been in place for 10 years? AH!) we did a bit of work in the backyard and then my husband fired up the BBQ.

We just finished eating some fantastic tasting hamburgers. I was starving so it’s great to have that tasty food in me!

Did you take advantage of the holiday today and perhaps get some yard work done as well? Or maybe you got together with family?

GMAT prep courses for my niece

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Wow, time sure flies! I was just thinking about my husband and I’s nephews and nieces and I can’t believe that almost all of them are in their teens or in their young 20’s! It certainly doesn’t like that much time has gone by since they were babies!

As I said time flies!

We got a call from our niece in Chicago last night. She said she’s looking into gmat prep courses as she’d like to take a graduate business administration course. She said she’s looking into the Gmat prep courses at Knewton because they have the practice items, practice Gmat Cats, 36 live teaching hours, live office hours and a membership time of 12 months.

I don’t know much about Gmat prep courses, but I like that it’s online. I’ve become quite a fan of online courses in the last several years. You can still work and pay the bills while you’re learning!

I’ve you’ve taken a Gmat prep course I’d love to hear where you took it so I can pass that information on to my niece. It might help her decide where to study!

Do you know of any good LSAT prep courses?

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Hey guys, I have a question for you. Do any of you know much about LSAT prep courses?

A friend of mine in U.S. contacted me and asked me to help her find a good LSAT prep course for her daughter. She’s just finishing up her Law studies and I think she’s going to write the LSAT exam this year, but before writing the big exam she wants to do a prep course.

We have a few friends that went through to become lawyers and I know one of them had to write the exam at least twice before he passed. (Apparently that’s fairly common). It would be nice if my friends daughter didn’t have to go through that though!

When I did a search for LSAT prep courses I found this online course that sounds good. The price is reasonable and they have live teaching hours so if my friends daughter needed to actually speak with an instructor about the course she’d be able to. Plus, I personally like the idea of online courses, especially if you have a busy schedule because you can study online whenever you have time – day or night.

So … if you have any information about good LSAT prep course I’d love to hear about them so that I can pass the info on to my friend.

Thinking of going back to school?

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In recession times it’s not uncommon for those who’ve been laid off or those who’s jobs might be on shaky ground to think about returning to school. I’m sure there are many people who have recently considered returning to school either to study further in their chosen field or to make a complete career change.

In the early 90’s, during that recession, I did a complete career change and so did my husband (boyfriend at the time). We were both jewelers and the jewelery trade wasn’t doing well, so we took turns going back to school. I became a nurse and my husband became a computer technician.

If you are considering going back to school you might be interested in taking a look at the online Master of Arts in Organizational Leadership course at Lewis University.

There are five concentrations in this course which will equip you with leadership and progressive management techniques, they are organizational management, not- for -profit management, Public administration, training and development, and higher education – student services.

They also offer an online Masters of Science in Information Security. The course is highly dynamic and it provides students with the managerial and technological tools to work with government agencies and businesses in order to safeguard them from threats to their data and computer systems.

I actually like the idea of online courses. They offer flexibility in that it’s often easier to fit an online course of study into your life. Lewis University also offers competitive tuition and has generous financial aid programs.

I know that if I were thinking of making a career change and possibly going back to school I’d probably look into an online course first. Have you ever thought of furthering your career by going back to school?

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