Category Archives: Nashville

Owen. Wired.

Posted on February 14, 2012 by Doug Midkiff

When you get tired of going to the Starbucks across the street, OwenBloggers has you covered.

Dose Coffee & Tea

Website: dosecoffeeandtea.com
Address: 3431 Murphy Road, Nashville, TN 37203
Hours: M-F 6a-7p; Sat 7a-7p; Sun 8a-7p
Seating: Very popular place that fills up quite often, but you can find a seat most days. If not, ask to share a booth or table with someone!
Selected Prices: Medium Coffee: $2.00, Medium Latte: $3.50, Cup of Tea: $2.25
Outlet availability: Ample thanks to several power strips throughout.
Wifi: Yes: Open network, no password required. Always a good connection.
Driving Distance from Owen: 1.8 miles
Parking (Car): Yes, but limited.
Parking (Bike): No.
Food: Cookies, Bagels, Breakfast Sandwiches, Small lunch menu, Treats, etc.
Scene: Mostly a mix of students and professionals. You’ll see lots of laptops open or business meetings being conducted at Dose.
Other Notes: In my opinion, the strongest coffee in Nashville. Great selection of tea. Best smelling coffee shop. Next door to Grand Cru Wine and Spirits who hosts wine tastings in Dose occasionally. I would go here way more if they were open past 7pm. As it stands, it splits time with Crema as my morning/afternoon coffee shop.

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Twitter Lists: Doug Midkiff

Posted on February 4, 2012 by Clark Bosslet

Our second twitter list comes from blogger and famed Excel guru Doug Midkiff. While I’ve been a Bill Simmons fan for years, the other three twitter accounts on this list are new to me.

is the author of Dinosaur Comics and also brings the funny on his own personal twitter account. Comic humor transfers over pretty well to twitter humor.

,  aka , is the widely popular ESPN columnist who recently formed his own website called Grantland.com. You can (almost) always count on Bill to be tweeting some interesting/funny things during big sporting events.

Editor’s heavy-handedness:

Because I’m a sucker for nice, round numbers like 5, I’ll go ahead and add the aforementioned Grantland.com. The site has a twitter feed that pushes out links to any and all Grandland stories, podcasts, and soup related content.

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aka , is an urban planner/designer who works in Dallas. He tweets quite regularly about urban form and design in Dallas, but also across the US. He often passes along interesting links, as well.

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Visiting Owen

Posted on January 17, 2012 by Clark Bosslet

If you’re viewing this webpage right now, there’s a better than zero chance you came across it while researching Owen as a potential landing spot for your graduate education. While we like to think of this site as a nice little resource, nestled away in the hinterlands of the Internet, we understand our inherent limitations. When we’re not combing through the finer points of Excel or interviewing local beer brewers, we try to shed some light on student life. We like to cover our day-to-day routines both in the halls of Owen and in the greater Nashville area to supplement the marketing resources officially provided by the school. In essence, we want you to get a feel for the place.

But let’s be honest. If you’re thinking about attending a business school in near future, more than likely that entails leaving your current place of employment, foregoing that potential income in addition to taking on some degree of debt, and uprooting to a new city (and in some cases, dragging loved ones along with you). It is one of the most serious commitments you’ll ever make, and while we try to be informative, it can never be enough. To get a sense of Owen, you really need to visit.

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Finding a Church

Posted on January 10, 2012 by Doug Midkiff

If you are considering Owen for your MBA there is a good chance you’ll be joining us from a different city.  This means you have to find all new “places” for your daily life: a new dry cleaner, a new favorite restaurant, a new place to get your hair cut, a new gym, and on and on. Towards the top of my “new place” list was finding a new church.

My wife and I have settled into a church we really like, but it was not the first place we visited. Sometimes referred to as the “Buckle of the Bible Belt,” Nashville has over 700 churches. In this post I would like to share a few of my thoughts on what I learned as I was going through the process of finding a new church. Hopefully, this post will prove useful to future students as they move to Nashville and consider where they would like to attend church.

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Owen Podcast Series: Jackalope Brewing Company

Posted on December 19, 2011 by Owen Bloggers

In this edition of the Owen Podcast Series, we welcome Jackalope Brewing Company co-founders Bailey Spaulding and Robyn Virball. The conversation touches on the inspiration behind the company, their current and future plans, and why, in spite of being the only female owned and operated brewery in Tennessee, they opted against calling it the Flowers and Unicorns Brewing Company.
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