Word: powerpointed
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...unsatisfying journeys your characters take to something approaching success and self-understanding. What were your post-collegiate years like?Keith Gessen: When I first got out of school I moved to New York and basically sat in a room and wrote stories. And then for work, I was a PowerPoint specialist at Morgan Stanley, but after about a year I began to fear that I would die an obscure death and I started writing book reviews. Eventually I did an MFA, then moved to New York and resumed writing journalism and started n+1. In a way, all the stuff...
Although Gilbert has been teaching the class on-and-off since 2001, he dedicates a great deal of effort to still improving his lectures, estimating that he spends an astounding 100 hours on each PowerPoint presentation. He updates these PowerPoints until right before showtime, often including relevant photos from the day’s news...
...Oberlin, the “J-term will be completely and totally optional—if students want to stay home for five weeks and do nothing, that’s a great thing.” Potential offerings Harris suggested included the practical—classes on PowerPoint; the less conventional—such as metalsmithing; and the academic—introductory Japanese or English seminars. “There needs to be a wide range of things, from demanding to less demanding,” Harris said. The question of whether to allow internship recruiting during J-term...
...said. He went on to detail the process of training and studying from veteran astronauts and the preparation required for a launch. “It takes thousands of hours in the sim,” he said, referring to a machine that simulates outer space. He showed a PowerPoint slide of a three-foot stack of required manuals for skills like robotics. After pointing out that the pilot on one of his shuttle missions was the real Maverick from the film “Top Gun,” Burbank said that actual shuttle flying is not daunting...
...Inside the Green Zone, suit-clad economists and businesspeople met in air-conditioned rooms to go over PowerPoint presentations...