Archive for July, 2006
MOUSECORPS Helps Make Free WiFi a Reality in NYC
Want free Wi-Fi? If you live in the East Village it’s coming soon.
Today, four MOUSECORPS students met with MOUSE founder Andrew Rasiej and FON, a community of WiFi users. Their goal: to get wireless access points in the windows of hipsters who live in the East Village so that you can sip […]
Posted: July 31st, 2006 under Opportunities.
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Day 6 at UBS-The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
Today in UBS I met another manager in the Presentations department, Diana. Shelley had a emergency so she could not come in today. I hope she will feel better especially for my presentation on Friday. i met Richard again and we worked on making a graph for my presentation. I also met Joshua (I did […]
Posted: July 31st, 2006 under Community Voices.
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Day 5 at UBS- Show Off!
Today my mother came with me to UBS. A emergency came up so she was with me. I introduced my mother to Shelly and they had a good talk. After this I met Lead Operator Chad and we talked about past shadowship experiences. I also saw Chad help two ladies, one with a list of […]
Posted: July 31st, 2006 under Community Voices.
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EMI,Day 9: XP Installing again
Today i finished installing XP Pro Serivce pack 2 on the laptops that Priscilla gave me. Once XP was done installing, i had to run Windows Updates so that the computers have all the hotfixs and security problems fixed. I heard tomorrow that i am going to be installing software on those computers. I want […]
Posted: July 28th, 2006 under Community Voices.
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Day 4 at UBS-A Day of No Play
This is my fourth day at UBS and it was one that was important. I had to remember a lot of things but they were all interesting. As usaul I hung out at the Front Desk. At 1:00 pm i went to a meeting where I met a few of new employees that are going […]
Posted: July 27th, 2006 under Community Voices.
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Day 3 at UBS-Not Again
Today i was assigned at the Front Desk again so I met Tim, Mimei and Rafeki. Later I met a Lead Operator. Her name was Lakennia Griffin. She helps employees who need correction in any presentation that they work on. She also showed me Corel. Later I met up with Kevin Cherry and he was going to […]
Posted: July 27th, 2006 under Community Voices.
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EMI,Day 8: Waiting for XP to finish installing
Today was a boring day, Priscilla made me install Microsoft XP Professional Service Pack 2 on about 10-15 laptops. This was very easy, because all you had to do was turn the laptop on, put in CD in the drive and follow the on screen messages. Because this are old computer, installing XP takes atleast […]
Posted: July 27th, 2006 under Community Voices.
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Day 2 at UBS-Hmmmmmm…….. Okay
Today was my second day at UBS were i was appointed at the front desk. There I worked with Tim and Mimei and learned a little more about PresXpress. Later on I met Richard Johnson and he helped me create a presentation that I have to present at the end of the shadowship. I hope […]
Posted: July 26th, 2006 under Community Voices.
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EMI,Day 7: Video Conference
The training room had 3 computers that needed to be hooked up with keyboard, mouse and power cables. At first I thought it was easy till I noticed the desk the coamputers were on. The desk had this weird channel thing where the cables so that they are not all over the place. Getting this […]
Posted: July 26th, 2006 under Community Voices.
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EMI,Day 6: PC Install
The Hp/Compaq computer that Priscilla showed how to complete a Remote Installation Script (RIS) for installing windows from a server along with understand Group Policy Organization for installing programs automatically; we took that computer and install it into an employee office. I help clean the desk and remove the old computer, while Priscilla unpacks the […]
Posted: July 25th, 2006 under Community Voices.
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