Texas MBAs Talk

A couple of weeks ago Deloitte Consulting came to campus for their annual Consulting Case Challenge- one of the most highly anticipated challenges of the year. Twenty teams battled for the top prize, setting a new record for participation in the process. In addition to the overwhelming turnout of first-year students, Deloitte added [...]

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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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I’ll be the first to admit that idea of moving to Texas was a little intimidating for me.  I am not a native Texan.  I am a west coast girl, and for many years of my life Texas was synonymous with machismo and cowboy culture.  While I always had the utmost respect for the University [...]

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The first thing people said to me when I told them I was heading to Austin for business school were three words “Austin is amazing!” Having visited the city before, I knew this was the case, however business school started with such a bang that my goal of exploring Austin was quickly replaced the goal [...]

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McCombs draws students from not just all over the United States, but from all over the world. And while 30% of our class is made up of Texas residents, the majority of these Texans have moved from Dallas or Houston. Overall it’s safe to say that we’ve made some pretty major life changes to be [...]

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So let me start off by saying “My Bad.” Apparently things get quite busy during the first semester of business school and unfortunately my blog posting suffered dramatically as a result. I apologize. But now I am back with a renewed dedication and plenty of stories to share about the fastest seven weeks of my [...]

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When I was applying to business school one of the most frequently referenced phenomena were “overnight case competitions”. Essentially students form groups of 4-5, receive a case at 7pm, work the case through the night, and then present a perfectly coherent presentation in front of faculty, recruiters, and other people who ask searing questions. All [...]

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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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This week marked the end of our first-year CORE accounting, finance, stats and microeconomics classes. With finals coming up next week it would have been nice to take a breather – instead our last week was one of the most intense ones, filled with quizzes (3), projects due (2) and homework. I must admit that [...]

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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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