Queen's MBA: Going the Distance: Week 33

Showing posts with label Week 33. Show all posts

Friday, December 19, 2008

Week 33: Holiday Break

Week 33 ends and so does our first week of break. Nothing much to write about, just a few more grades posted.

Kingston by The Numbers

117,207 – population of the city of Kingston in 2006.

25,000 – approximate number of students at the city's three post-secondary institutions (Queen's University, Royal Military College, and St. Lawrence College).

1673 – year Fort Cataraqui established, the first European settlement on the site which became the city of Kingston.

101.9 – the FM frequency of CFRC, Queen's University and Kingston Community Radio – the oldest radio station in Canada and the second oldest in the world.

33 – number of diveable wrecks in the waters off Kingston – considered some of the best freshwater wrecks in the world.

9 – number of Federal correctional facilities in the Kingston area.

3 – years Kingston was the Capital of the United Province of Canada (1841-1843).

1 – number of goals scored in the first ever game of ice hockey, which was played on Kingston Harbour in 1886. Lennox Irving scored the only goal of the game leading Queen's University to victory over the Royal Military College.

??? – exact number of historic plaques in Kingston in honour of Canada's first Prime Minister, Sir John A. Macdonald.

Come to Kingston and see for yourself the many places Sir John A. lived in, worked in, visited, drank in, walked past….

Quotable Quotes

“Everyone who enjoys thinks that the principal thing to the tree is the fruit, but in point of fact the principal thing to it is the seed. -- Herein lies the difference between them that create and them that enjoy.” - Friedrich Nietzsche

“Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.” - Napoleon Hill

"If we should be blessed by some great reward, such as fame or fortune, it's the fruit of a seed planted by us in the past. " - Bodhidharma

"Words are things, and a small drop of ink, falling like dew upon a thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think." – Lord Byron

Queen's MBA: Going the Distance

Friday, December 19, 2008

Week 33: Holiday Break

Blog is "finished"

Are you considering an MBA?

Looking for something in particular on this blog?

About Me

I was accepted to the Full-Time MBA Program at:

See who is in the program now:

Kingston by The Numbers

Queen's MBA Links

Useful MBA Links

Canadian MBA Salaries

Blog Archive

MBA Schools I considered very seriously.

My Blog List

Followers

Quotable Quotes