Monday, October 31, 2011

Crisis Week

Hey everyone & Happy Halloween!

Well-tomorrow is our last day of crisis week! We started last Wednesday and I've been living in the Intel Lab every since. (In case you forgot, crisis week is when our professor will assign us a tasking and we have exactly one hour to report back to him with our analysis and briefing) I received my first crisis week assignment last Friday, which was a written briefing, also known as a SFAR (Short Form Analytical Report). I received my team briefing earlier today and it went great! Tomorrow I expect to receive my individual oral report. I'm really not that nervous though, as we've been researching the European Debt Crisis for eight weeks now!

Immediately following Crisis Week, our team needs to get started on our final briefing. Our final briefing is scheduled for next week and will be approximately one hour long. In our final briefing we will discuss our group's findings and analysis regarding US trade and the European Debt Crisis. We are also expected to create a link chart, just like we did in the Advanced Intelligence Analysis course I took last fall (I have a blog entry specifically on that class if you would like to read it).

In other news, tomorrow is November and the end of term is near. I've already registered for four winter term classes:
       1) American Government
       2) Advanced Computer Applications
       3) Competitive Intelligence
       4) Criminal Justice

All of the above are required classes for intel students. We will also have a new intel building next fall, which everyone is excited about! Here is a picture of the construction:

New Intelligence Studies Building Construction


Thank you for reading! Enjoy the fall!

Ryan

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