Live and Learn

After an extremely pleasant and lengthy break between fall and spring semesters, we’re back in school. Before I explain how happy I am to be back, I thought I’d share a few pictures of the break.
Here’s one of me at the Master in Professional Accounting Council (MPAC) December party at the end of fall semester. [...]

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Worst
1 - Realizing, as I had just started the last problem on my first Intermediate exam, that there was a time limit and it was up.
2 - Seeing the Longhorns NOT go to the conference (and national) football championship despite our being the best football team in the nation.
3 - Witnessing the layoffs and struggles [...]

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Who:  All college students…except those communications majors.
What:  Operation Hell Week
When: Friday, December 5 – Tuesday, December 16
Where: Libraries, Study Lounges and Classrooms
Why:  I only wish I knew.
It’s the slang term for the time of year when college students become zombies and are forced to neglect their social lives in hopes of not failing out of [...]

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We all know what time of the year it is.  Here in the Business School we have come to accept that we practically have two rounds of finals; one during the last week of class and again during the campus- wide finals week. Now for most of us, this week not only includes exams, but the [...]

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I have recently picked up golfing as one of my weekend activities. I am reluctant to call it a hobby because I have only gone to the driving range about twice in the past month. However, I have every intention of keeping this weekly activity alive. The truth is, I am not very athletic, and [...]

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Welcome to the MPA Lounge. The door only opens for those with ID cards that have been activated to allow entry, making the GSB 4th floor room exclusively for MPA students.
Two girls are sleeping in the corner, one on each couch. Apparently the end-of-semester demands kept them up late last night.
In addition to those two [...]

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Wednesday, November 19, 2008
6 a.m. - Alarm goes off.
6:20 a.m. - Roll out of bed to get ready for school.
7:10 a.m. - Grab hastily assembled lunch and backpack, hop in the car, and race down to campus (twenty minute commute from my house).
7:45 a.m. - Arrive on campus, kiss wife goodbye, stop by locker in [...]

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Above and beyond the business school, UT in itself is massive. It is very easy to feel overwhelmed at times and even feel “lost in the crowd.” Regardless of one’s personality, it is difficult to shine at a school that hosts 50,000+ students. (Well, unless you are Colt McCoy or Jordan Shipley.) But remembering the [...]

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I wholeheartedly second, third, and fourth Darrin’s earlier post (“Wanted: Sherlock Homes WannaBe”). I had a similar week last week. Thus, after I turned in my Tax Research case on Saturday (thank you, Prof. Zvinakis, for the extension!), you guessed it! I rushed to San Marcos with a friend for some retail therapy. San Marcos [...]

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“The good life” requires some semblance of balance between work, play, service, family, friends, hobbies, health, travel, personal development, and eating at In-N-Out. We all know this.
However, it’s not always easy to
1 - Understand our own priorities
and
2 - Spend our time and efforts according to those priorities.
Fortunately, my good friends, I have it all figured [...]

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Dear Future Self,
Don’t worry. Even though I’ve been slammed with homework and interviews for quite some time now and have barely had time to keep up with my one show (Heroes), I’m going to continue pushing through to the end to provide you with a great foundation of accounting knowledge, good grades, and, if all [...]

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Unlike the vast majority of students at UT, I was fortunate enough to have a freshman year where the UT football team ended as National Champions.  The day Vince Young announced he was going into the NFL draft, I am pretty sure a small part of me died inside thinking that we would never win [...]

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