when trying to follow the first command in Lab 2 of the NLP course I'm getting an error saying that virtualenv is not installed and i should contact my admin to do so.
is this something others have experienced? my searches here in the forum have come up empty so far 
Hello John,
You need to first ssh on server1 and navigate in the nlp_api folder before running this command.
Let me know if you are facing other issues.
Romain
had a new tab open in strigo and didn't yet do ssh server1 
yes that was it! i typed out the above response last night but never finished posting it, whoops.
also of note, running the curl commands doesn't work initially. you need to run this or add to reqs file:
pip install Werkzeug==0.16.1