Forum Encourages Women To Apply To Business School
Written by Jocelyn Sexton, MBA ’14 This past weekend, I had the pleasure of co-hosting the Texas Executive and Evening MBA Women’s Forum. We welcomed prospective students to an extended information...
View ArticleBeing 30 with homework.
Some youthful things make you feel young like water wars, animated films, and merry-go-rounds. Some youthful things make you feel old like well drinks, actual young people, and homework. Our children...
View ArticleThey’re called “Intensives” for a reason
I’m Ivy Le. I’m an entrepreneur running a print, design, and content marketing shop in Austin, but I’m better known by search engines as the beer reporter for the Austin Chronicle, which I was until...
View ArticleTo Apply Or Not To Apply
By Debjani Panda, Texas MBA at Dallas/Fort Worth Class of 2014 May 16, 2012 “Texas MBA – Deadline approaching” the subject of the email flashed in my inbox. The mail reminded me – 10 more days to go...
View ArticleEvening And Executive MBA Women’s Forum
By Amber Lyons, Texas Evening MBA Class of 2013 Saturday, January 26th marked the second annual Texas Evening (TEMBA) and Executive (EMBA) MBA Women’s Forum in Austin, Texas. The event was an all-day...
View ArticleMBA+ Project – Buffalo Bills
By Erick Levitre, Texas Evening MBA Class of 2015 The McCombs School of Business is known for having an excellent learning environment and one aspect that stood out to me during my first semester was...
View ArticleFirst Semester In The Books
By Ryan Berber, Texas Evening MBA Class of 2015 Having just completed my first semester in the Texas Evening MBA program, one aspect of the program that really stood out is how each individual is able...
View ArticleMy MBA + My Marriage
By Marissa “Lau” Garrison, Texas Evening MBA Class of 2014 Celebrating Thanksgiving this year was quite special. No driving back to Dallas (my hometown); no watching football on TV; no gorging on food...
View ArticleIn Between: Moving from Engineering to Business
I have always been in between worlds. I spent 15 years of my life growing up in Indonesia, and the next 11 in the U.S. And even though there’s a large Indonesian community in my college town and in...
View ArticleAlumni Post: Life After McCombs- It Really DOES Exist!
Life after McCombs. It really does exist. As the summer breeze increasingly lingers through the air and current students are rushing to Spring Break, I’m reminded of my last semester as a “TEMBAn” a...
View ArticleStudent Blog- My ENHANCE Experience
As I mentioned in my blog post about the summer semester, I chose to participate in the ENHANCE program. I worked with Bob and Carlie (two of my teammates mentioned previously) on a project with the...
View ArticleStudent Blog- Fresh Faces and Previous Pioneers
One of the areas of the program that is often highlighted is the McCombs Alumni Network. Last figure I remember being quoted is that it is more than 75,000 members strong (although I’m sure that figure...
View ArticleStudent Blog- 2009 Summer Semester
As the summer semester gets well under way, I can fondly remember what summer used to mean in undergrad…it was always a time for me to take a break from the classroom. Well, with TEMBA, that’s not the...
View ArticleStudent Blog- Dubai Trip- TEMBA ’10
Hi everyone, TEBMA Trent Thurman asked me to write up a blog about the April ’09 TEMBA ’10 trip to Dubai, United Arab Emirates. What an amazing experience. I’ll try to break it down by day, with some...
View ArticleStudent Blog- Back from Dubai
Two weeks ago marked the culmination of this semester’s International Business course. After spending the semester studying the history, culture, business environment and industries of the United Arab...
View ArticleStudent Blog- What a Difference a Week Makes!
The week of March 16 was officially “Spring Break” week at The University of Texas. Now, Spring Break takes a whole different meaning when you are not a full-time student. As someone who is juggling...
View ArticleStudent Blog- I know it’s Exam Time When….
So, it’s been a few weeks since my last blog post, but I’ve got a “good” reason – it was just midterm time. Add that to an extraordinarily busy time at work and I hope you can understand my mini...
View ArticleStudent Blog- We are Family
We’ve all heard the saying it’s not what you do, but who you know. I’ve always believed that both are important in business – in my mind, everyone needs to add value through their work and...
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