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I am Forever Grateful

Dear Professor Jorisch,
Thank you so much for a fantastic semester. I learned so many new tools that will actually be helpful in the future. The fact that you taught me Excel is amazing. My last internship over the summer would have been so much easier had I just known the fill handle function! I truly feel like I have mastered Excel to the point where I can figure out a formula for any situation.
My apartment has nine people living in it, so the bills and bill payments get very tricky. I actually set up an Excel spreadsheet that breaks down each bill and shows how much each person still owes. It’s extremely helpful for someone like me, because I forget that they paid seconds after I put the check down. This is a class (to the exclusion of many others) that will actually help me throughout my life and I could not thank you enough for that.
We also did a good amount of Microsoft Word. Although it isn’t as “flashy” as Excel, and people are not as impressed if you call yourself a “master of Microsoft Word,” I do feel like I know more than the next guy and that my papers will always look just a little more professional and well done.
I sincerely hope that this is not the last post I make because I absolutely plan on taking Excel for Business with you before I graduate. This little taste just isn’t enough to satiate me. So although I will be on at least a semester hiatus, I shall be back!
Thank you again for a wonderful semester. Your teaching style kept me involved and excited, and it seems like most of it has stuck,
Drew Feld

Powerpoint

Unfortunately, we did not have enough time to really delve into powerpoint his semester. We did learn some neat tricks about formatting and adding pictures which was nice. The casegrader on it was very basic, just a nice quick refresher course. Learned about addint text and slides.

CaseGrader for Excel

Hey fans,
I have just finished all of my Excel CaseGraders and I believe I have learned many useful tools. Case 1 has already been recapped in an earlier post. In Case 2 I learned how to format my cells to make them look better and was introduced to charts. In Case 3 I was introduced to Excel formulas. Very useful for accounting and finance purposes. Really helps keep all your numbers on all your pages in order. Adds everything up for you. A real pleasure to know. In Case 4 I learned absolute and relative cell references. It is confusing stuff, but hopefully when I master it, it will assist me even more than just Autosum on its own would. Case 5 was a little bit of a refresher course again of cell structuring. It did teach me how to delete unwanted cells and add them if necessary. Finally I got to Case 6 which was quite tough. It had me create some complex formulas that in the end did all the work for me. If the golf company was really something I owned, these functions would be priceless.

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Casegraders and what I've learned

Hey all, (probably just Professor Jorisch)
Recently I have completed a bunch of casegraders. Specifically Word 1-5, and the first one of Excel. I thought I would run by what I have learnt from each.
Word 1
This was pretty basic. Didn't learn anything new specifically, but it was a refresher course.
Word 2
Again nothing new, but this helped refresh some of the harder things in word. Lot of cut and paste sort of things.
Word 3
This was an interesting one. Had a lot of fun manipulating texts to make them look nicer. Really makes everything look nicer. Format painter is great. Helps save a lot of time.
Word 4
This one was tough. It took me a few tries to get a handle on it. Really makes everything look really proffesional. A lot of formatting tricks. It was cool to change one paper into different sections. And i love working with graphics.
Word 5
This one I am hopefully not done with yet. It took me longer than I hoped. A lot of cool things to make your paper look nicer, but it was vey hard for me.
Excel 1
This was the first from Excel that I did. It was actually quite fun. Taught me about autosum which is such a great toy. It adds, subtracts, multiplies all the numbers you would normally have to do on your own. Thats really going to come in handy often.

My Abridged Family Tree. (Sort of)

For those of you who still don’t know my name, it’s Drew Marshall Feld. My English name has no special origin. My parents liked the name Drew so they decided to m\name me it. Nothing special. I am glad they named me Drew because it’s not such a common name. It helps people remember my name better because they remember the uniqueness. I would hate to be named David or something like that because it is too common.

My Hebrew name on the other hand, has a very important origin to me. In the Jewish custom, it is a great honor to name your children after their deceased ancestors. It shows great honor to those who died. I was named after my mother’s father, who was hit by a car and killed before I was bor. From what I was told, he was a great man. He gave a lot to charity and actually helped build the Jewish community in New Rochelle. He was the main founder of the first Synagogue there, The Young Israel of New Rochelle. I am very proud to carry his name, Tzvi Elimelech.

Both of my mother’s parents were born in New York. She lived in New York up until the point she got married and then moved to my hometown, LA. My Grandfather on my father’s side was the only person who immigrated to America. He grew up in Poland and just escaped to America before Hitler came and would have sent him to the concentration camp. When deciding where to go in America, he decided to go to the most famous place he knew, LA. There he met my grandmother who, at the time, was acting or a dancer for some show there. So my dad ended up groping up in LA and convinced my mother to move there when they got married. No offense to New Yorkers, but I am so glad I grew up in LA. The sun, the weather, and the people there cannot be beat.

We Still Remember

September 11 will be one of those days that I will remember every detail of for the rest of my life. I remember waking up at 7:00 am and wondering why my mother did not wake me up for school. I remember going upstairs to see what was going on. I remember looking at the T.V in my parents room and realizing very slowly what was going on. I remember the shock of when at 7:28 am, I watched the second tower fall. I remember my mother telling me that I was not going to school that day. I remember being in a daze the entire day. It was unheard of. It was way too close to home. I was thousands of miles away but it was still on my home turf. This was the first major historic event of my lifetime and it will not be forgotten. Although I lived on the other side of the country and had never visited those two colossal buildings, it still hurt. I can only imagine the pain it caused for those who lived here, or those who had lost someone in those attacks. 2,974 innocent people were killed in one fell swoop. My heart goes out to them seven years later and forever.

My Bad

So I thought the assignment was to review Google Chrome but alas I was wrong. I was supposed to review Microsoft 2007's new updates. So here it goes. The new feature ribbon seams very cool and looks like it will make life a lot easier. It puts all the most important functions and puts them all at the top of the screen. I also like the new quick access toolbar. Overall, the new Word has new very useful new features to make life way easier. The write-up on Chrome may be useful to though.

Follow Up

Just started messing around with Chrome and I have to say it is pretty cool. Alot of cool new features in it. It's very fast and it allows you to create shortcuts on your desktop that will bring up your favorite web pages. Really cool stuff.

Chromed out search engine!

For those of you unaware, Google has just come out with a search engine of their own. Longtime supporters of Mozilla Firefox, Google decided to try to take some of the market share. As of right now its running in beta. Google said Chrome is designed for speed and ease of use. They also created a new Javascript so that programs of the future will be able to run. They have a new privacy mode which will cut down on specific advertising.
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2nd post/ 1st assignment

For those of you wondering, I come from North Hollywood California. There are a few reasons I chose to come to YU. The first reason is that other than Touro, there is no other college with a dual curriculum. This was very important to me. The other reason is that it's really fun to go to a college where almost all your friends are going to. My five main goals in life as of now are: 1. Graduate from college. I'm not sure if I want to stay for a fifth year but eventually I would like to be done. 2. Decide what job I want to have. I still am unsure of what I want to do with my life. 3. Get married and have a family. This one is obvious. 4. I definitly want to be involved in some way with special education. It's something I really enjoy. 5. To always make sure to have time to learn torah every day.

First Post

My name is Drew Feld.
I'm a student at Sy Symms School of Business at YU.
My major is undecided.
My email adress is drewfeld@gmail.com
My favorite website is Teenies Tiny Blog
The MIS class journal is Right Here