MBA Program (Universities) Rankings

• Entrepreneur Magazine (One of my favorites)
• The Princeton Review (Free)
• Financial Times Ranking
• US News (Free & Paid)
• Business Week (Great source)

MBA Admission & Info Blogs to Follow

• Business Week Getting Admitted
• Journals from current MBA students at various MBA programs

Other MBA Resources

• Useful videos to watch

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Nima Heydarian Blog

I will be posting at least one post a week. I started this trend a month ago and plan on continuing it. I actually won’t have time to write more than one post.

Automation Field Engineer

My goal for Automation Field Energy website was to hit 500 visitors for month of February. Considering that the website was created in February, maybe that was too ambitious. Right now we are at over 250 visitors for last 30 days plus 4 feed subscribers.

My new goal for March will be 500 visitors and 10 feed subscribers. I will be posting at least two updates a week. The website ranks well for its main term. I hope by end of the month I can make it rank for “Field Service Engineer” as well.

Twitter

I’ve been tweeting a lot more often for the past two week or so. Right now I am at 204 followers. I’m hoping to make that 300 by end of March.

Audio Books for March

The Unwritten Laws of Business. I will post a review of the Crucial Confrontations soon.

New Projects

Just one this time. I started a website on how to draw bode plot. Hopefully by end of March I will have all the articles completed and the website fully done.

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I won’t get into the headphones features list. You can find that online elsewhere.

During my research over summer,  I went to Best Buy few times and tried the new Bose noise canceling headphones. They have a $300 price tag. In my experience many of the best electronic brands are often the brands that most people haven’t heard of. Names like Paradigm, B&W, and Denon are not exactly household names, but they are far better than Sony, Kenwood, and Bose brands.

Sennheiser is another one of those brands. They make mostly professional audio equipment such as headphones priced at over $1000. The PXC 350 is one of their lower models targeted at general public.It is priced at $325 but you can find it on sale for less than $200 right now.

The Noise Canceling

I absolutely love it. It blocks noise like no other. It is perfect when listening to audio books on the way to work or on the way back or when I’m just sitting at the coffee shop. I’ve also tested it many times on the plane. The best one was when I was on the plane from Cleveland to San Francisco. It was a 4.5 hour direct flight. The headphones were on my ear the entire time when I was listening to music and when I was sleeping. It greatly blocked the engine noise all the way and I never felt uncomfortable.

Over The Ear & Sweating

One concern with over the ear headphones is that your ears might start sweating on long flights and making the headphones impractical. That is definitely not the case. I had the headphones on during the entire 4.5 hour flight to San Francisco without any trouble.

My Unusual Use

I lived in Indiana when I bought the headphones and live in Ohio right now. One thing the two states have in common is the terrible cold weather. Back in Indiana, I often had my headphones on when walking to school every day. After a while I realized that I loved the sound quality just as much as I enjoyed the warm ear covers that the headphones had become for me.

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Personal Subscriptions

• NetFlix $14 / month
• Few Magazine subscriptions (around $30 / Month total)
• Audible books $14 / month
• Gym membership $20 / month (cheap, isn’t it?)

Business (Website tools) subscriptions:

• HostGator hosting ($30 / month)
• Authorize.Net account ($35 / month)
• Aweber ($30 / month)
• Merchant Account ($30 / month)
• Online dropshipping tool ($100 / month) (unique to one of my websites)
• SEOMoz tools ($79 / month)

All these bills add up to closes to $400 / month. Some of them are essential for running the business. In fact the only one that I can cancel is the SEOMoz tools which wouldn’t make the monthly costs much less. I guess these are my overhead costs which will exist whether I make $1000 in a month or $10,000.

These are of course aside from utility and cellphone bills.

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I will twit about Iran issues, websites issues, and now working as an engineer issues.

My twitter followers count is pretty low at 179 followers right now. I’ll shoot for a (hopefully easy) 250 followers by end of February.

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They make it very easy to sign up but very hard to cancel. This is not an un-common practice among businesses. I just didn’t think a business such as ESPN would get involved in such practices.

If you want to cancel your subscription you will have to call the phone number below:

1 – 888 – 549 – 3776

Beware that they will try to sell you discounted yearly subscription instead.

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Its funny how the government decides to so called “privatize” government owned businesses so they put them on sale on Iran’s stock market and a day after military owned companies buy all of its available stocks.

This is bad and good. Its bad because Iran is moving towards complete (as if it wasn’t already) military dictatorship and will make the country hell for people. On another hand it is a sign that this government is at its last stand against people and about to become history.

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The book is about how to handle complex confrontations at work.

I’ll post a review of the book at the end of the month.

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I get one credit every month which can be used to purchase one audio book. Between going to work every day from 8 to 5, doing work projects at night, and managing my website, I don’t think I’ll have time to read (listen to) more than one book a month.

At the beginning of every month I’ll post the book for that month and at the end of month I’ll post a review of it.

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