It is hard to believe that my first year in the MBA program has already come and gone. The last few weeks of the semester were filled with final projects and exams. Once the work was done we had several social events to celebrate the completion of our first year and the graduation of the second year students. The Nielsen Center also had our own lunch to congratulate the graduating class.

This past year exceeded all expectations from an academic, career development, networking and social standpoint. The classes were all very practical and interesting and led by very engaging professors, who all knew us on much more than a teacher-student level. The sporting events, TAPS, speaker series, club events and other social events really took a lot of stress of when things were getting hectic and were a ton of fun.

Now I'm two days into my summer internship. I'm spending my summer in Chicago, working for PepsiCo (Quaker, Tropicana, Gatorade); so far the experience has been great and I'm real excited for the rest of the summer.