Category: Africa
By Mike Sargent
2048 is one of, if not, the best app I have ever downloaded. Elliott introduced us to this game, and it has been like crack. The basic premise is to move tiles around in a 4x4 grid combining them in powers of two until you obtain the coveted 2048 tile. After each move, a new tile appears until you cannot make anymore combinations.
By Mike Sargent
While spending the week at the University of Dodoma (UDOM), we were given a presentation on a recent water study conducted by the College of Natural Sciences. Prior to our visit, they had visited four nearby villages to study the water channels and quality of water used. The methods - and village health - were drastically different from each other.
By Carlos Garcia
Heidi expertly stated “the honeymoon will last about a week” during the final debriefing of the GAP class. She may have overstated the week. As expected, with six guys living together every second of the day and night, slight differences eventually accumulated and resulted in conflicts. Not “Real World” material, but certainly situations more intense than the tender interactions that take place inside the confines of Fisher.
Personally, one of the most exciting challenges of this project was developing a marketing strategy for a culture that was entirely different and new to me. As business students and marketing majors (myself included), we have a tendency to think we have it all figured out: run a Five Forces, do a SWOT, NPV, find the competitive advantage, differentiate, add in some other random b-school buzzwords, and poof! You're done! Looking back, it is hilarious how off-base we were in our analysis and our approach to our analysis while doing our preliminary work back in the US.