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Entries from October 2009

Questions and Answers - Classes

March 25th, 2009 · Filed under: Academics · Bart

Posted by Bart Bradshaw

When I visited campus last year as a prospective student, two MPA students were kind enough to answer the many questions I had for them. I wanted to know their experiences with classes, their career aspirations and MPA tracks, their experiences with recruiting season, their perceptions of MPA students and professors, and just about everything I could [...]

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Internship Lunch Series #2: The First Engagement

March 24th, 2009 · Filed under: Career · Grace

Posted by Grace Yeh

I hope everyone has enjoyed the first Lunch Series post. After the first week of training in Dallas, all the interns flew back to their respective home offices and began the first official week of work. PwC gave all the interns the opportunity to rotate between two groups during the ten-week internship, and I was [...]

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Internship Lunch Series #1: The Orientation

March 19th, 2009 · Filed under: Career · Grace

Posted by Grace Yeh

I cannot believe that the last time I updated was well over a month ago–I apologize for my long absence from the MPA blog scene! I am currently in my fifth week of tax internship at the Houston PricewaterhouseCoopers and, believe it or not, just getting a bit more used to a full workday schedule. [...]

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Top Ten List

March 12th, 2009 · Filed under: Career · Darrin

Posted by Darrin Harvey

The phrase is, “Time flies when you are having fun.” The end of my internship came so fast, I couldn’t believe it was truly over. Waking up early on Monday, I was close to preparing for another day of work.  Instead I went back to bed for another three hours. 
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