One Man's Musings

Antecedentes, explicaciones, aclaramientos, advertencies, y comentatios. Este es el t í tulo de una p á gina que encontr é en las notas de mi abuelo. Parece ser una advertencia a los lectores del futuro en referencia a la dificultad que el tuvo en obtener datos de la familia Brambila. Parece que el confia en la tradici ó n oral de sus antepasados. Pues leamos sus palabras: Segun relacion verbal que me hizo mi tio bisabuelo materno don. Jose Maria Brambila Rosales (a) el cuate, alla por el a ñ o de 1881, con la que me di ó Gregorio M. Medina, hoy tres de Enero de 1923, que vive en Tecolotl á n, el capit á n don Francisco de la Brambila y un soldado Diego Brambila, fueron unos de los Soldiers que en 1527 acompa ñ aron al primer Alcande de Colima Francisco Cortez de la Buenaventura, sobrino del Marques del Valle - don Hernan Cort é z, seg ú n relacionada de la historia del Licenciado (illegible) de la Mota Padilla, entre noventa soldiers escogidos a conquest las provi...

The Long Road to a Masters Degree I remember thinking how hard it would be to enroll in Graduate school. This occurs to me in late December, 2001, a month short of my fifty fifth birthday. I dreamed of securing a second career due to my upcoming retirement. My work schedule is hectic. I am a data entry clerk. I work third shift, ten hours a day, six days a week. I graduated from Northwood University with a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration on May 11, 1996. Sometime in January, 2002, I decided to pursue my Master’s degree in Organizational Management.. Several of my supervisors, who were pursuing an advanced degree, recommended I enroll with the University of Phoenix on-line, since attending a brick and mortar school would be impossible with to my work schedule. No one told me the difficulty that I would encounter working full time and taking master’s degree courses simultaneously. The first obstacle that I encountered is self doubt. I realized that my aca...