Reach for the stars

Christine Kjellberg|August 9, 2010

“Goals are dreams with deadlines.” Diana Scharf Hunt If you had told me a year ago at this time that I was would be training for triathlons and studying for the Base SAS Certification test, I probably would have said you’re crazy. But, late last summer a good friend of [...]

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My Favorite College Textbook

Shelly Goodin
Shelly Goodin|June 30, 2010

Contributed by Angela Hall, Technical Architect Wait, what? Doesn’t everyone have a favorite college textbook? Maybe I’m that much of a SAS geek, my favorite college text is sitting right next to my desk & has ever since I left college. Coffee stains, battered edges, sticky notes around the top [...]

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All Reported Out

Stacey Hamilton
Stacey Hamilton|February 8, 2010

I’ve spent quite a while now going through chapter 8, “Creating Enhanced List and Summary Reports,” in the Base Certification Prep Guide. This topic should be straightforward, I keep telling myself. So why did I score 40% on the quiz? Thinking that I probably needed to delve a little deeper, [...]

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I am thankful

Christine Kjellberg|November 20, 2009

With Thanksgiving less than a week away, it’s a time to remember all that we are thankful for. Of course, I think we should remember all year long what we are truly thankful for and what matters most in our lives, but I digress. One of the small things that [...]

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In My Own Words

Stacey Hamilton
Stacey Hamilton|November 13, 2009

I can still remember most of the lines of the poem: Two roads diverged in a yellow wood and sorry I could not travel both . . . I’ve forgotten what I ate for lunch yesterday, so for me to remember the words of Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken,” [...]

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The other side of Mount Certify

Shelly Goodin
Shelly Goodin|October 16, 2009

Contibuted by Brenda Kalt, Development Tester, Publications Product Testing I work in Publications, and I’m looking at “PROC CERTIFY;” from the other side of the mountain. In September I took the exam and passed it comfortably. I reviewed three nights before taking it (generally missing what I should have read [...]

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