Aram Zucker-Scharff

"Skillport (which you can find at https://gmu.skillport.com ) is a great resource that's available to everyone at Mason and that no one seems to know about. If you're IT it's especially useful, as it provides a huge number of free online courses for various certifications. If you're not, there's still plenty of great info on there. If you're interested in learning how to use various Adobe Creative Suite products, STAR Labs provides decent training programs at http://ittraining.gmu.edu/worksho.... They also administer some certification tests at the lab. They also freely lend out video and audio equipment, which can be useful. Also, George Mason University's IT and MSOM programs both have subscriptions to the Microsoft Software Developers Network for Academics, which allows you to legally download a whole host of expensive Microsoft software for free (including Windows 7 and Microsoft Project). In MSOM's case, you are granted entrance depending on the class. When..." - Aram Zucker-Scharff

"Hi! Yes, if you can take any classes with Mark Sample or Alan Cheuse, jump on them immediately! They're two great instructors. Another person to look for, if you are interested in digital literature and building stories using new media tools is Dean Taciuch. Any class they teach is well worth taking. Cheuse's short stories class (I think it was ENGL497 Scene-Making Workshop) is especially good if you're in English for the creative writing side of things. If you like Science Fiction, Amelia Rutledge teaches a great class on it, though it was one of the toughest I ever took at Mason. I took ENGL398 with Art Taylor and though the class was sort of weirdly structured, I still enjoyed it. I'm not sure if they still offer it, but I was able to take THR490 for English credit and got some great insights into screenplay writing." - Aram Zucker-Scharff

"No one has to. I just figured that I'd offer a room for meetups and give people the heads up that I was here. I figured you'd want to know if some of the comments were made by someone who works for the university." - Aram Zucker-Scharff

"Yes, that stat means that GMU is no longer officially recognized as a commuter school. Apparently, once you have more than a quarter of your student population on campus, US News removes that classification. So in that sense it is not." - Aram Zucker-Scharff