Texas MBAs Talk

If you are a loyal reader of this blog (all three of you), you may remember how bitter I was when I couldn’t attend last year’s Red River Rivalry (Texas vs. Oklahoma in Dallas) because of first year midterms. When the second years came back and raved about how amazing the game and the corresponding [...]

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It’s hard to believe that an entire year has gone by since my first experience at the Austin City Limits Festival last September. Having had such an amazing experience at my first ACL, I was refreshing the page to ensure I got tickets as soon as Early Bird 3-Day Passes went on sale in April. [...]

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Very little about this football season has been surprising thus far. Even the Detroit Lions defeating my beloved Washington Redskins wasn’t all that surprising (demoralizing, yes; surprising, no). The Longhorns have been reliable in destroying the first three teams they’ve played thus far (even reaching a basketball-like score of 64-7 over UTEP last weekend).
This season [...]

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We’re a few weeks into classes, and I’m beginning to realize how fast this semester is going to go by. In addition to my normal class load, I’m a TA for Advanced Marketing Management for the Texas Evening MBA program and am running recruitment for the next class of CCIMS Marketing Fellows. Add in my [...]

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My summer was a complete whirlwind, and it’s hard to believe I’ve already finished the first year of school, completed my long-awaited summer internship, and come back for year 2…AND that a week of class has gone by. Sadly, I know the rest of my MBA will be over in a blink. I’m thinking denial [...]

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When I left Austin, it was 94 degrees and sunny. My first weekend after arriving in Minneapolis, it was 49 degrees and raining. I knew the weather would be an adjustment, but I had no idea the change would be so dramatic so early on. But first, let me back up a little.
I participated in [...]

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This year, I have had the amazing opportunity of being one of the 16 members of the inaugural class of CCIMS Marketing Fellows. When I came to McCombs, I immediately joined the Graduate Marketing Network, because I knew it would provide me with wonderful opportunities to learn from my fellow marketing classmates as well as [...]

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After dancing the night away at MBA Prom with fellow bloggers Stephanie and Ryan and the rest of my McCombs friends, I was looking forward to having a relaxing rest of the weekend. What I didn’t realize was how spontaneous (or authentically Austin) my weekend would turn out to be.
My first stop on my Austin-tastic [...]

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Some of you may have read about how my decision to attend McCombs was largely due to the wonderful experience I had at last year’s Preview Weekend. It was for this reason that I decided to apply to head up the event this year, and I have to say I never could have imagined what [...]

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Before I came to McCombs, I knew that one of the things I wanted to get out of my experience was to go on at least one of the McCombs Global Connections trip. Lucky for me, I gained a spot on the China Global trip after getting off the waitlist the day before leaving for [...]

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