Marksheets Available!

Your marksheets have been made available. Please look for any mistake in recording your marks. If you find any mistake please notify me (by email: imran.edu@gmail.com) and my teaching assistant (by email: tasnuva.sharmin@gmail.com or SMS: 01732717187) immediately. Grades would be assessed on the 30th of December, 2011 based on these marksheets. So, you must report any problem with your marks by 29th December.

Please notify all your classmates about it. If you want to check your assignment, quiz, or exam scripts, you may visit my office tomorrow (Tuesday) and day after tomorrow (Wednesday) between 3 pm and 4 pm. 

Thanks.

AT&T Customer Service Dilemma!

Caller: Hello, can I speak to Annie Wan?

Operator: Yes, you can speak to me.

Caller: I'm Sam Wan. And I need to talk to Annie Wan! It's urgent.

Operator: I know you are someone and you want to talk to anyone! But what's this urgent matter about?

Caller: Well... just tell my sister Annie Wan that our brother Noe Wan was involved in an accident. Noe Wan got injured and now Noe Wan is being sent to the hospital..

Operator: Look, if no one was injured and no one was sent to the hospital, then the accident isn't an urgent matter! You may find this hilarious but I don't have time for this!

Caller: You are so rude! Who are you?

Operator: I'm Saw Ree .

Caller: Yes! You should be sorry.. Now give me your name!!

Operator: That's what I said. I'm Saw Ree ..

Caller: Oh.....God.......!!!!!!

Sakib Best Creative-Writing Award Winner!

Congratulations to M Sakib Ullah (EEE Student) for bringing honor to NSU by bagging the first prize (among 126 contestants, including BUET, IBA,..), organized by UNYSAB on "7 Billion Population: Challenges and Opportunities for Youth".
 
Let's all wish Sakib bigger success in the days to come.

Additional Office Hours!

I am planning to be present in my office from 10 am to 11 am every day between 18th and 22nd December, 2011. FIN254 students may visit my office to clarify difficult concepts. ACT201 students may check their final exam scripts once checked.

Thanks.

Khan Academy - Free Education Videos!

The Khan Academy is a not-for-profit educational organization, created in 2006 by Bangladeshi American educator Salman Khan, a graduate of MIT. With the stated mission of "providing a high quality education to anyone, anywhere", the website supplies a free online collection of more than 2,700 micro lectures via video tutorials stored on YouTube teaching Mathematics, History, Healthcare & Medicine, Finance, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Astronomy, Economics, Cosmology and Computer Science.

The major components of Khan Academy include:

• a video library with over 2,700 videos in various topic areas and over 89 million lessons delivered.
• automated exercises with continuous assessment; there are more than 200 exercises, mainly in math, including four challenges and 184 individual modules.
• peer-to-peer tutoring based on objective data collected by the system, a process that will be projected in the future.

Not-for-profit partner organizations are making the content available outside of YouTube. The Lewis Center for Educational Research, which is affiliated with NASA, is bringing the content into community colleges and charter schools around the United States. World Possible is creating offline snapshots of the content to distribute in rural, developing regions with limited or no access to the Internet.

Khan has stated a vision of turning the academy into a charter school:

This could be the DNA for a physical school where students spend 20 percent of their day watching videos and doing self-paced exercises and the rest of the day building robots or painting pictures or composing music or whatever.

You may watch a YouTube video where Salman Khan talks about his academy and vision. You may also choose to download that video using following two options:

Good Quality Video (MP4 format - 50 MB)

Average Quality Video (3gp format - 37 MB)

I thank you in advance for watching and sharing with your friends!

CLEAN NSU Campaign!

NSU Earth Club is going to arrange an environmental awareness campaign CLEAN NSU on the 11th of December, 2011. Everyone is requested to take part in this cleaning program in and around NSU on that day. Honorable Vice Chancellor Prof. Dr. Hafiz G A Siddiqi and honorable Chair, BoT Mr. Md. Shahjahan will start the program at 10.30 am on that day.

Apart from this, at different locations around NSU, Earth Club will use display boards mentioning environment friendly behaviors to be practiced within NSU campus as well as day to day life like turning off the light while leaving classroom, reduce wastage of water, not littering, reuse and recycle of paper, using mass transport or car pooling, not to smoke, etc.

You are invited to take part in the campaign to make it a success. Thanks.

Revised Final Exam Schedule!

The Registrar's Office has revised the final exam schedule. Following is the updated schedule.

ACT201 => 17-Dec-2011 (Saturday) at 8:00 am in NAC517

FIN254 => 22-Dec-2011 (Thursday) at 8:00 am in NAC514

Thanks.

Invitation to Attend a Presentation!

The Department of Career & Professional Development Services (CPDS) cordially invites you to attend a presentation on “Hult International Business School”

Hult International Business School (formerly known as the Arthur D. Little School of Management) is a business school with operations in the Boston area, San Francisco, London, Dubai and Shanghai.

Speaker:  Mr. Muhammad Uzair
Program Director, Hult Master Admissions, Middle East, South Asia Admissions Office

Date:  5 December 2011
Day: Monday
Time: 2:30 pm – 4 pm
Venue:  NAC 415

Your participation will be highly appreciated.

Wi-Fi based Printing System for Students!

As a part of the development program, NSU IS Dept. has integrated successfully to the students printing facility through NSU Wi-Fi network system. You can now access to lab network printers located at Computer Center, Library Building, Level-6 using your laptops from anywhere in the NSU campus.

The Wi-Fi based printing systems will also integrate automatically printed page calculation and subtract from your print quota (200 pages per semester). Please visit the help desk for details.

This is for your information. Thanks.

Make-up for Missed Class!

Due to the strike called by main opposition political party, today's classes have been cancelled. Make-up of today's classes would be held on the 8th of December, Thursday.

For FIN254 students: Quiz 9 would be held on Thursday (make-up day). Bonus quiz worth 35 points would be held on Sunday (11th Dec) on comprehensive final exam syllabus, as discussed in class. Dec-13 would be the review class. Please make good use of the time to prepare yourself for the comprehensive final exam.

For ACT201.10 students: We would start Chapter 18: Financial Statement Analysis on Thursday (make-up day). Quiz 3 would be held on Sunday (11th Dec) as previously scheduled on Chapters 10, 17, and whatever we could cover from chapter 18 on Thursday. Tuesday would be a review class.

Thanks.