By Angelica Pastrana, MBA’23 I have tried to freeze time over the last few weeks. I told one of my mentors that I am in a strange place between quickly wanting to get to my internship and holding onto my first year for as long as possible. I lean towards being a forward-thinking individual, but… Read more »
By Marisa Moran, MBA’23 Happy Women’s History Month! This month in the Kelley MBA program, we celebrate the many accomplishments of women in business and the Women of Kelley. This sparked my desire to share the MBA experience through the lens of one woman pursuing their MBA. Many start their MBA journey with a clear… Read more »
When Sadia Tanveer and Zach Weisman discussed dreams for their future together, they realized they wanted to live in a well-rounded city; a place with good jobs, people their age, and things to do, and that career changes—and MBAs—provided the options they were seeking. That future, both geographically and upwardly mobile, is now in sight… Read more »
By Farrah Bhimani, MBA’22 When I was researching which full-time MBA programs to apply to, I started with the list of The Consortium member schools. Diversity, equity, and inclusion have always been strong values of mine, and I wanted to spend two years in a program that shared that value. This narrowed down my search… Read more »
By Manish Jha, MBA’22 In my career, at various points, I always found myself asking the question, “What next?” My quest to answer this question has helped me make decisions outside my comfort zone and the decision to pursue MBA at Kelley was also an outcome of this question. I kept pondering over this question,… Read more »
By Blake Richardson, MBA’22 Like many people setting out on my Kelley MBA journey, I had so many questions about my ‘place’ in the business world. I wasn’t coming from a job at Deloitte or as a mid-level manager at a Fortune 500 company. I had no prior business degrees, had never held a job… Read more »
By Bri Taylor, MBA’22 Making the transition from employee to MBA student is a journey in and of itself. Now add the pressure of having to secure an internship by the end of your first year, while navigating core and maintaining some sort of social life, and one can become extremely overwhelmed. When looking back… Read more »
Linh Nhan, MBA’21 “What was the most meaningful decision you have made?” If someone asks me this question, no matter now or 50 years later, I will still say that pursuing MBA at the age of 25 is one of the most life-changing decisions that I made. Perhaps, my MBA journey began back in 2018… Read more »
By Daniel Kim, MBA’22 As I finish the first year of my MBA journey, I am overcome with mixed feelings. Feelings of relief, joy, sadness, excitement, fear, and as much as I hate to admit it, some regret. I thought about last August when I was just beginning the program and meeting my core teammates… Read more »
Sam Yoder, MBA’22 Student Body President * | Forté Fellow* When I was deciding to go back to school, a few knowledge gaps ultimately clinched the decision: I knew I needed better financial understanding as well as data analysis skills. Three-fourths of the way through my first year, Kelley is more than delivering on both of those… Read more »
