Alright Hello, everybody, and welcome once again to our discover the difference at temporary underrepresented minority populations. My name is Tiffany Jackson. I'm the assistant director of admissions here at that Upper School and I just want to kind of take care of some housekeeping tips before we move into the web and are the first thing I want you to know is that it is a moderated chat today, so for the question and answers when you put your question into the chat box. You won't see it automatically but we will as the host.
And so as we get started. I will begin to accept those questions and we will have our panel answer them. So to get started? Why don't we test this by you guys dropping into the chat box? Let me know where you are located?
Tiyi McCorvey
11:31:59 AM
New York!
Ivy Gong
11:32:00 AM
Toronto, Canada
Richa Choubey
11:32:01 AM
baltimore
All right, we've got one person from York, we've got Toronto Baltimore.
Alright we're all over the place.
Suyash Raj
11:32:21 AM
India
Wonderful we've got to representation from all over the place as well. So we are all over the USA and hundreds more Richard from Houston. But my parents are from the Rango, Mexico. There we go. So we are global right now beyond the United States Awesome. Get somebody from India web excellent so I'm going to go ahead and get started and I wanted to take a second to think you and our panelists for joining us today. The purpose of today's webinars to help you understand the distinct difference of the temper NBA curriculum.
And diverse community by hearing directly from our students, so today. We're going to be focusing on the experiences of are under represented minority population and I'm excited to be joined today by a few 2 years in a first year. MBA student who are excited to share their experiences and answer your questions so I have some topics for us to get started on and we'll do our best to get as many questions answered as we can as the conversation continues. But the first thing I want to do is introduce you to our panelists and you can see their photos here on the screen.
So 1st we have Andres Let me chat with Michelle pronounce it. Incorrectly, 2020, is a second year here, Kumari Purcell. He's class of 2021. He's a first year in Asia. Banks, who is the class of 2020 and she's a second year and they're all full of a wealth of information there excited to share with you here today. So we're going to go ahead and jump right in and I'm going to first give you some information about temper and then we're going to get to the real reason why you're all here is to hear from our panelists.
So to kick off our conversation. Today I'm going to talk to you, a little bit about this dramatic transformation. That's happening in business due to the exponential leaps in technology, so think of driverless cars. Apple Pay Bitcoin and also consider the amount of data that they're being produced that those are producing and it's increasing massively the amount of data that we are handling nowadays and there's no denying that the landscape of business has changed because because of this one thing is certain.
Is going to continue to do so. So here at the Tepper school? We're really uniquely positioned to take advantage of this opportunity and we want to train our students. The lead at the business of technology lead at the intersection of business and technology as I should say here so we're going to talk a little bit about how we will achieve this.
On the next slide, which is about leadership in Analytics. So here at that upper school. It wasn't that long ago that you 3. We're here kind of in our perspective student shoes who are listening here on the web and are thinking about the NBA and researching programs to attend so Asia would you like to start out by sharing of some insight into how you believe we focus on leadership analytics and how we do helps Tepper students stand apart and how his temper in particular. Hope you enhance these skills.
Pooja Patel
11:35:07 AM
Pittsburgh
Sure, so high everyone again. My name is Asia. I am really looked forward to utilizing the accelerate leadership center, while I was still in your shoes researching schools and that was one of the main one of the main aspects that attracted me. I have used a lot of the resources not only with the one on one coaching that we have available to us every mini so that's like twice in a semester period. You're able to meet 1 on one with the codes work on your own individual personalized plan.
And as a person who had various opportunities to grow as a leader in my previous role. I knew I didn't want a one size fits all approach so the one on one aspect of the coaching was really helpful. For me, but also the workshops that they have available for us throughout the year are also really helpful. So I've done workshops on topics like design thinking. I've also done workshops on things like poetry, so all of these different empathy building activities.
Kielyn Jarvis
11:36:19 AM
Boston
They also have a lot of skills workshops, so whether you can learn with your classmates about gender intelligence. For example, or conflict resolution executive presence. All of those different things that you need to become a leader and then also you have the opportunity for other kinds of coaching say you want to practice your speaking skills and you work with the communication codes. So a lot of different opportunities to hone in on what you specifically need to work on to get.
Rahim Islam
11:36:50 AM
Raleig
Rahim Islam
11:36:53 AM
*Raleigh
From where you are to where you'd like to be an then you have access to them continuously after you graduate because you're going to continue to grow as a leader. An now they really know your past so far, so they can be very helpful as you progress towards the C-Suite effects your ambition.
Thank you for that yes, hi everyone sundress. Michel second year full time MBA student. This is something that really attracted me the temporal leadership in Analytics. As I was doing. My research kept reading a lot of Wash. Read articles about AI. Artificial intelligence and that's all pretty much Analytics. An once I got here. My first year. I really focus on the analytics and also the leadership aspect with the accelerated leadership center and kind of being able to not only interpret the numbers.
But also persuade others too.
Actually, for your recommendation is something very critical that you need to interconnect do you want to be a future leader not only on the analytics but also presenting those analytics to executives in order for them to prove your your concept or your idea and I just share a little bit over my summer internship. This is really stood out for my summer internship this summer. I Internet equal app in the global global finance supply chain team. It was heavily a lot of Analytics. A lot of data crunching but at the same time you had to deliver your message.
Kebbin Eke
11:38:14 AM
Newark
2 senior leaders in order to persuade them to continue with the change of where you were proposing and that really what made me successful in my summer internship an eye thanks to temper and also all the efforts that every other faculty in my studio. Everybody here that really helped me kind of push myself to build those those skill sets.
Lake Mary Purcell first year, MBA student just to follow up on a key point that under a Schmid. It's really about valuing this skills of storytelling. So we're not just talking about analytics right. We're bringing forth a data driven narrative, one that people can relate to and can make decisions based upon so I think that's really the value that you get. When you enter twine leadership in analytic skills wonderful. Thank you guys for that insight and obviously you know the academic experience is a big part of the NBA, but so is the work that she'll do with the Masquerier Center for both your internship and full-time recruiting.
All that kind of touched on so Andres can you speak to your involvement with the MCC in terms of the job search preparation and how does the Masters Career Center support you in achieving your post NBA career goals? Yes, so prior to NBA I worked at electrical engineer an coming into my MBA. I knew I wanted a pivot in industry and also on careers and I knew was very critical for success to work with the experts in the master Career Center and that's another thing that really stood out from the Top NBA they have.
Dedicated individuals working with you 1 on one telling your resume telling your cover letters to specific industries or specific companies that you want to work with and thanks for them. I was able to land. My summer internship and it doesn't stop there. Even now when I'm full time recruiting. I'm still in contact with them going in for mock interviews, an they're experts in the field. They have coach very high level. People get to executive C-Suite so they know what they're talking about there.
Up to date with everything that's going on in the industry and they're able to kind of tailor your skills and where you want to get to and give you advice on what industry will probably fit your skill set? Where in where you want to get to.
And I can just add on a little bit from my experience so this is Asia. Again, I was in a chemical engineer in my past life, I was also an internal consultant in that manufacturing space and I was making a huge pivot totaly away from that towards marketing towards early stage startups and towards entrepreneurship as a whole and I used a mix of the MCC are Masters Career Center for helping me speak make my resume speak marketing for example.
And I use that actually with consortium recruiting prior to even stepping foot on campus and I was successful, with getting offers that way. I end up not wanting to take a corporate role. So I had a different evolution of my recruitment experience to include.
With a very high touch experience because I was focused on startup so I'm not only leverage the Masters Career Center but I also leverage. The Sports Center for entrepreneurship. I'm also a Swartz Fellow. So I leverage that network, which is all of CMU. I leveraged other Tepper specific alumni and with I was able to get my internship over in the Bay Area through the network of alumni.
So that was kind of my experience similar to a showing Andreas. I'm also a Consortium Fellowship Fellowship student an prior to your summer entry you actually get the opportunity to work one on one with one of our career counselors and I think that provided really valuable benefit to me because coming from directly from undergrad. I've really had not had the opportunity to explore job opportunities that much, and so the one. I want feedback that I got actually put me out of most of my peers because I got that Head Start like 2 months beforehand.
Whereas actually getting the chance to like interview prep and job training and figure out really what I wanted to do with my career goals and just won another point even though Andreas and I happened to be engineers. You don't have to be an engineer to thrive in in temporary with this program were very much a community that works together and we have classmates that have had haven't had math in a very long time and still do well within the program. Yeah, don't get scared away from the Analytics.
It's just a tool that they teach you here. If you're not if you don't feel that so strength. Trust me coming out of pepper. MBA will be a strength on your toolbox, so don't worry about that. That's why we're here to teach you help learn each other. You know learn from each other and use the resources here to have that tool box to have that resource on the toolbox.
Excellent insight, thanks for that guys an one of the one of the temper values is the diversity of thought because we believe diverse community creates Richard really a more robust learning environment. So Marie can you share with me? How you believe that upper school classes and inclusive community, not sure so I think one of the primary things that we really do is we set up these clubs where you can really interact with fellow diverse candidates and really get a chance to hear their experiences of what they've gone through the.
Community and then I think.
Being diverse only helps you get in once you're in. It's no extra barrier to entry. Everybody's like OK cool. You're still a student at the end of the day so I think we've seen him through this past week and we had our diversity weekend. We had over 130 candidates, which shows toppers continued efforts to try and improve this diversity of thought and people on its campus.
And I'll add another note so we this was the first year that we had something called inclusion week prior to diversity weekend in that came about from from students that are now second years uhm and the whole premise was the fact that well the classes is diverse because of the applicants who choose to accept and come to temper but inclusion is very important in making sure that we had like a focus time to get together and continue that exchange especially really.
Um within the first years experience. Uh was important to us since even though we have a lot of programming throughout the year for opportunities to exchange with different cultures and talk about different like personal identity's we thought it was an important part of our overall experience. You have a focus look on inclusion and it ended up being really well in very much supported by administration. So it's kind of not only an example of inclusion and diversity within the community, but also.
The fact that if you see a need for UM the opportunity to just enhance the experience that you have here as students. You have an opportunity to lead that effort.
We also had our first reconnect weekend, which brought back fellow alumni back to our campus. So we actually got the opportunity to network with them as well so that was great opportunity for us. Yeah, think tempers unique In this sense. There's very highly diverse candidates. He ran really what temper allows him to do is to kind of speak about their rich past and I think that's how all of us are students learn, you know, everybody has a unique background here at temper and I'm pretty sure everybody that's on the car right now has a very unique background.
And temporarily allows you to be inclusive. They're willing to help you if you want to speak out. You know if you really want to share that story, and it really helps your classmates learn a little bit more about you, but learn more about the world. You know because we all come from different backgrounds. We all come from different places all over the world. An once you share that that's really the value. You bring to the temporary NBA and the Tepper MBA allows you to do that.
So true I couldn't say it any better on Jason. I want to kind of circle back. 'cause Kamari brought up the clubs and they really provide a rich opportunity for leadership and growth outside the classroom as well as these opportunities to fellowship and be around. Some of your fellow students so I know many of you are involved in multiple clubs. But I want to start a discussion by talking about some of the activities that the BBA that lack Business Association does. We're very lucky enough to have the president of the VBA on our panel here today, so that is Asian. Banks and I'm going to allow her to chat a little bit more about.
What somebody is closed due to support students at temper? Yeah, so the first thing is the black Business Association is a club for all Tepper students. So we have a mixed membership and one of the things that we committed to is making sure there's not only increased representation within our cohorts through our work with admissions and supporting their efforts, but also increased representation on how we are collaborating with different professional clubs for example, making sure we have different people coming back to speak to.
Um to our student body that are within all of these great companies and we also have different opportunities to learn and exchange on different topics such as the ESM so we had a series last year that talks about different isms. Whether it was racism classism, etc. An we had guided discussions on how that affected. Pittsburgh specifically an learning a lot more about the community in which we're living for these 2 years or more.
And we also do a lot to engage with the greater CMU communities. So a lot of exchanges with our black graduate Student Association organization to join with their programming. Make sure our student body is aware of the programming. That's happening across campus. There's often very alot of speakers that come on to campus on with interesting topics. I recently participated in a talk on the new Jim Crow, which was very interesting, so making sure that people are aware of all these different opportunities that are available.
For the total CMU community.
Excellent thank you for that and Speaking of the total seeing you community. I want to make sure those of you who are listening are familiar with some of the key partnerships. We have for our diversity initiatives so for this particular weapon. Are we're going to talk a little bit about the consortium in MLT, but you can see that we are partners with various organizations across all spectrums of diversity so you can definitely find an organization that we're working with.
For all of our diverse populations and through this call as I mentioned particularly we're going to talk about the consortium and Lt so I was wondering if Andres could share some of the benefits and Opportunities. He's gay through some of these organizations and then we'll kind of expand to the rest of the panel to talk about there's as well. Yes, when I was looking for MBA schools just in the same shoes. You're in right now. I really look for schools that really foster diversity. I think is a critical skill for you to kind of learn a little bit more about each affinity club.
It also makes you a better individual in a better leader in the future. So if you look at temper their part of all the diversity partners that are out there on part of the consortium and I'll tell you thanks for the consortium. I'm in the shoes that I'm in today and thanks for Tepper as well. And those are the opportunities that temper 6 out for you, you know they're here to help you to kind of mode, you to become a future leader. Aung change that diversity on the C-Suite or where we gonna get into leadership.
And at the same time, a being part of the consortium is painted forward as well. I'm the first MBA in my family and my main goal is to pay that forward you know open the doors. For others that come in behind me and I want to thank the consortium and also the Tepper school business for allow me to open those doors for others. And if you have kind of a similar background as me. These are great opportunities for you to seek out and to create that change for others.
Yeah, I totally agree an I can speak a little bit on MLT as well because I did their program for the MB. The application prep and I thought that it was an excellent way to prepare for my application because I was somebody that decided kind of last minute that I wanted to get my MBA. So I really didn't know what I was looking for. I didn't have a network of people to help me figure out what to even consider criteria for an MBA program. I was very surface level.
Before I went through the MLT program so that was an excellent way to not only hone in on why exactly why, why it was that I was doing it, but also the to take the right approach an have a lot of FaceTime like unprecedented FaceTime with admissions officers from all of these Top programs that their partners with that's kind of like I don't know how else you would get that kind of exposure to those people who are giving you feedback directly on things like your.
Interviewing skills or any any of your networking skills or all of that stuff that's important as you're going through the application process. I forgot to add one thing? Where are in the partners page so I'm actually grateful also for the temper partners my wife move here with me to kind of start this journey together an the Tepper students in the temper faculty here has really accepted my wife or if you come here with a significant other, or partner. They're really welcome here at Tepper MBA. There's actually a temper Partners Club.
Where they actually have a lot of involvement outside of school so just don't be jealous as a student they do more fun stuff as a student 'cause you're busy as well. So they get to do fun stuff as well here at Pittsburgh. The most valuable thing for me as a consortium fellow was the network so not only are getting the chance to meet with companies, which are also working on your relationships with your future classmates and with other students who are going to Top 20 B schools and some of my best friends that are currently right now, I've come.
Through the proportion so I really appreciated it.
Wonderful wonderful thank you for that insight as an an we're going to move on to our favorite topic. Pitts burg, but before we do that. I want to get your questions started so if you guys can start submitting them in the chat box. You know one thing you're probably thinking about. Obviously is pursuing your MBA in Pitts Burg Burg like if you've never been here before. You might have a lot of questions. So we're going to turn to our resident pittsburgher at the moment he's been here for going on 5 years now Kamari since he did his undergrad.
If you can talk with a little bit about your transition to Petsburgh and how you've taken advantage of the city, yeah, so I'm originally from Los Angelus moving to Pittsburgh was kind of a giant leap came to Carnegie Mellon. The first time without ever stepping foot in the city of Pittsburgh, the state of Pennsylvania more or less.
But really it gives you such a wide variety of things to do whether you're looking to do sports, entertainment tech industry. The nature is around the city is fantastic. We have pit right down the street getting the chance to interact with students from there. The diversity of thought and the intellectual curiosity. That kind of permeates throughout the entire city is something that is pretty unique. It's such a small kind of city where perfectly blends both the NE and Midwest aspects of Culture.
It's very allowing in letting you develop in a place where.
Not only can you think small and think, but you can also think big so you're a big fish and kind of a medium sized pond and you get that diversity between both the small aspect where you know, most of the people around you, but also at a larger scale to where you can have a major impact on a wider community as well.
Uh I can add my experience I was looking for uh a great entrepreneurial ecosystem and within a school so I looked a lot into the activity that was happening in Pittsburgh as a whole as it relates to entrepreneurship and that's kind of another reason why I choose to come to temper I think that this is a community where a lot of people are supported in entrepreneurship. There's a lot of activity going on. There's a lot of desire to help.
Others and I think that in and in A.
In a more saturated, um ecosystem, it might not be as easy to find people that are willing to help you out in to help you advance in your ideas and what you're trying to do so. This was a really great place to grow as an entrepreneur.
Yeah, so for me a me my wife actually made the visit to Petsburgh and fell in love. Just I'll tell you the things that made me fall in love, great food. Uh there's a lot of things to do here. It's not it's still a big city. I would say you could find anything to do from hockey football, baseball so there's a lot of opportunity, there, but yeah, really. I could tell you as much as I. I want for about Pittsburgh. But if you have the chance to come visit Pittsburgh. It's probably a better recommendation just how I do you know?
It's a big commitment for 2 years and if you're able to come visit us here at temper and also the city of Pittsburgh. I think you will fall in love. Just how me my wife on the Pittsburgh as well. One final thought on that. The weather isn't as bad as people say it's bearable alright excellent. Thank you for that guys and so we're going to transition that into the question and answer section of our web and R so go ahead and feel free to start putting your questions into the chat as I mentioned it is moderated so you won't see them pop up right away. But we will start addressing them as they come through and we're going to try to get to as many as we possibly.
We can today and our 1st question is going to be if you guys could share with us. Your biggest piece of advice that you would give a potential student looking at temper, maybe for the application process or once they get here? What would you say is your biggest piece of advice?
My biggest advice is come visit the school. It's like I mentioned before a big commitment from your part and I know sometimes it's hard to find the time, but find the time come experience it for yourself. There's a great beer. When I came to visit temper. I really saw myself in the classroom. Everybody made me feel welcome. The students are great. The faculty is great as well. And that's what really stood out from this program. I visited every school that I applied to an I knew Tapper from the first day we visited here me and my wife we need.
We're going to have few included in an inclusive, which was very important for me so.
My advice is to talk to students. Uhm we have an admissions ambassadors page where there's probably like over 200 people that have signed up to talk to you to answer your questions and you have a little bit of insight into what they did before what they are doing focusing on now to find a good match for yourself and see if you can make sure that like all of the resources that you think you need are going to be available to hear about some of the ways that they're taking advantage of not only.
Being at Tapper, but being at CMU and what that means for cross collaboration or some kind of using or joining in. On the resources that are offered by the greater CMU for example, a lot of our students take classes over in public policy or in computer science or even just something else like design, so depending on what you're interested in. I would make sure that when you're thinking about your application and thinking about why you want to go come to temper specifically.
Also, look at the greater picture of what you can uhm take advantage of while here at CMU, yeah, so my piece of advice kind of expands on just finished saying really think about your why, why am I pursuing an MBA? Why am I choosing the schools that I want to apply to and why do I want to take the next step forward so I think that's if you can figure out what your reasons are for doing.
Your whatever actions you need to get to where you want to be that's really how you're going to come in and figure out kind of what steps you need to take and where you need to go from here. I want to add one more thing. Everybody is very unique has a very unique background and share it in the application shared in the interview I think tempers are very unique school with people from different backgrounds very unique backgrounds and share that story, with you. I know everybody here in the call has gone through difficult moments in your life and share that with temporary you know.
Share with the school because the school. The passage the Patch is in the works right so.
I show your work ethic show your previous experience. We like to hear unique background so make sure you highlight in your application and don't shy away from it. I think that's something that comes very genuine through your application process you had temper absolutely. Thank you guys for that. We had a quiet group today, so feel free again to joint got your questions in the chat box. We have one more an my next question is can you guys tell us? What did you find most surprising about temper once you got here that you may be?
Didn't realize before you step foot on campus.
Yeah, for me was a back to the work I think it's leaving your job in coming back to school is no easy task, but then balancing your time as well. You have to leverage your Google calendars putting your priorities straight. I think that's something that any future leader is going to have to have those skills and I think from day one here at Ted but you're going to have to develop those skills. It's why you at the moment. You don't realize it, but tempers helping you to become that future leader because if you think about it any leader.
Their calendars full all the time and they have to prioritize who's going to make it to their calendar. And it's the same thing here from day one so I think that's something that and a lot of people tell you but I think it's a great skill set to learn early on.
I think for me the biggest surprise was how manageable to work is yet. This like notion that memory is going to be like super challenging and it is, but the workload is very manageable. It's all the extra stuff is like Andreas was pulling out. You know whether it's clubs whether it's recruiting networking. All these extra opportunities or what kind of.
If you don't prioritize and set that schedule. Do kind of make things more difficult, but the workload is surprisingly manageable from my point of view.
Yeah, I would echo that uhm you might think you're busy you don't understand what busy is until you get here NBA and so you have to kind of take a moment before you enter school to really hone in on? What is important to you a holistic Lee at the end of the 2 years. Maybe that includes more than just academics and kind of use that as your Northstar to re calibrate because you literally have so many opportunities.
So I think something was surprising to me was just how busy it was. I thought I had been busy before an I had it so um so just being able to do that and then like Merced, the workload is manageable an part of why it's manageable is because of the dynamic of our cohorts. The full cohort here that everybody is very collaborative and you're getting through the classes together working on different things together and that helps a lot.
Kielyn Jarvis
12:02:41 PM
What has been the most impactful class or faculty in your time at Tepper? (And why)
Thank you guys for that insight awesome, so our next question is if you can share with us. What has been your most impactful class or faculty member at your time at temper and a little bit about why.
So I took a class, which was actually in a part time online hybrid class and that class was called global and distributed teams an in my previous role. I was on a global in distributed team. I had responsibility for sites in Mexico. I had projects over in Europe in multiple countries and worked with teammates that were in Thailand and so I had this experience, but I was still learning in the class and there were different able to confirm different things that I was.
Able to better understand why certain things happen or why things fell apart and ultimately figured out how to better approach global in distributed teams in the future because I'm pretty sure all of us will if you haven't already you will work on at least a distributed team and just being able to prepare for that in a great way, and also practice it because your team is actually global undistributed so we had people that were in China. People that were in different countries in Europe in the process of moving to like S America and you have to still.
Work on your projects and handle all of these things that are real world challenges so that was one of my most impactful classes.
Applications with Professor Chou it was a great class, I think is something that you do day-to-day without realizing and taking that class, I really enjoyed it because you do a lot of in class actually demos for negotiations. Not just the class where you sit for PowerPoint you actually get partner up with with other students an you actually make a negotiation. So you have to bear everything for this and for me, it was great because I actually got to negotiate with the ANOVA.
Uh it's a He's a football player from the Steelers here. We were talking about his negotiation how the class help him negotiate his contract with the Pittsburgh Steelers. So it was pretty fascinating experience. Yeah, yeah, so I'm pretty early in my MBA during so far, so I haven't had the opportunity to take as many classes quite yet, but for me, I think managing team just kind of been.
One of the most valuable just 'cause like we've been saying like the diversity here is kind of like mind blowing like you work with so many different people have different in varying styles. Different cultures different backgrounds, so being able to manage those different things and set expectations a little bit differently because you're used to. You know, we've all had like work experiences where we know exactly what our teammates probably are thinking and how they organize their thoughts and so getting used to that diversity of opinion can.
Really be helpful in exploring your future opportunities.
Kebbin Eke
12:05:43 PM
How common is it for students to work during the semester?
Awesome. Thank you guys for that I'm so curious and we have this person here curious how common is it for students to work. During this semester, while they're in the full time program. I'm assuming you're asking Kevin is about the full time program that will touch on because part time is a little bit different so will focus a little bit on how does working fit into a full time schedule so I would say it might be more common in your second year, then in your first year uhm. I know, people that worked through both.
But you will be very busy and it's going to impact how involved you can be with clubs in organization, it would impact how much time you can dedicate to recruiting and academic so, so that would be the impact. I would say that if you're defining work is only work you're getting paid for. I would say that it's a lot less common. But there are a lot of people that do different consulting projects or different things like that with startups if they want to practice something there's opportunities to work here within the school so Andreas and I work for.
Work in the admissions office as Fellows and that is a pedrol. There's also people, especially in their second year that do TMRTS that are graders that do these different things for the University and it's a lot more common.
I currently have a part time outside internship just because I do lack experience from the rest of my peers. So I wanted to try can bone up on that, while also doing something that I love which is like sports.
I'm trying to make sure I limit as much time as I can for that, while also still making the most of that opportunity just making sure I keep that balance up.
Ivy Gong
12:07:17 PM
How has your career goals evolved since joining Tepper?
Create an you guys share how your career goals have evolved since you joined the temper program.
Yeah, for me, I think coming from a technical background working as an individual contributor. I was important for me to develop some leadership skill sets an through the programming are you come in you work with your faculty work with the student body here and it really helps you build those leadership skills an now looking back on my main goal is to become a general manager an everything I learned here at temper. You know all the Class I've taken has really gave me that confidence to be uh.
A future leader an there's no doubt in my mind with this opportunity that I had these 2 years here at Tepper that I'll have that opportunity down the line to lead a team, so that's really how it has evolved from being an individual contributor to leading a team and being a future leader.
Tiyi McCorvey
12:08:22 PM
What aspects of you MBA experience do you find most challenging/rewarding?
Awesome. Thank you for that object so can you guys share with me a little bit about what aspects of the NBA experience? Do you find to be most challenging or most most rewarding?
I think for me one of the most rewarding things is.
Kind of like the interdisciplinary aspect, not only do you get to interact with MBA students but because Carnegie Mellon is such a diverse school you get to work with people from computer science engineering drama and art. So you really get the opportunity to expand your kind of own thought Horizon and network and meet cool different interesting people who are pursuing something other than you are, but it's something that's very valuable now cannot be down the line as well for me the most challenging thing was of course.
Doing my job and my paycheck and then coming to do this full time I was very challenging. It's very easy thoughts in your head of did I did the right thing is it the right choice for me, but the most rewarding thing is that you have 2 years to really learn more about yourself. I think you won't realize how much you will learn about yourself your capabilities your abilities through this, 2 year journey and I think that's what temporarily opened eyes. For me, I think coming in you know the first few minis here at Ted.
Was very challenging the sense of it? Is the right thing for me, but now being in my second year. I'm very grateful that I actually had this opportunity and make the sacrifices because it really opened eyes. For me to see what I really want to do with my future career and what I don't want to do in my future career.
Pooja Patel
12:10:17 PM
How about the family-work-education balance? Would you be still able to make use of the clubs and networking opportunity?
Great thank you guys for that in our last question today is going to be a little bit about the family work education balance. We briefly spoke marry you mentioned you're working as you're doing this and you know Andre you've mentioned your wife? How do you guys strike a balance between all of the busy things your doing right now? I think how I mentioned before it's prioritizing for me. My wife is here, so for me. It's important to make time for her so I block off time in my calendar. Let's say Saturday morning.
To go get breakfast to go to church together. I think it's important still to remember kind of your values, you know what are your values for me it's heavily on family. So I still go back to Houston where my wife. San my families at during Christmas break during Thanksgiving break and you make those time, yeah, you might sacrifice other times. Let's say other activities. But I think knowing yourself. What are your priorities and everybody is very welcome mean I think everybody accepts?
Your decisions at the end, nobody's pressuring to do something that you don't want to do here at Tipper.
Yeah, I think you really hit the nail on the head for Maine, like you said prioritization and then the calendar aspect if like I tell everybody if it's on my calendar is not going to happen. Whether it's writing down my class stuff time for me to work do my internship stuff network recruit and even time to party and socialize with other people. So I make sure that my calendar is my ultimate tool and savior right now.
Excellent thank you guys for sharing that with me and I know we had a couple of questions that we didn't get to touch on today. I know Priyanka I'll follow up with you later. I'm Unfortunately. None of our panelists are doing the NBA. Ms software engineering program so I'll follow up with you afterwards and talk to a little bit more about that program. And, yes, Kevin if you have any additional questions or anybody in the room. Please make sure you visit our ambassador page. All three of our panelists are admissions ambassadors so you should be able to find their contact information, there and they will definitely share any additional insights that they possibly can.
But do just for the sake of time I want to make sure I mention to you guys that we have some more opportunities for you to connect with us as the emission team as well as a lump in current students and that our temper talks this year. They're going to be hosted in various cities across the country between the week of November, 19th and 21st. We will be visiting 77 cities this month, so if you are located in NYC Boston, Chicago, Philadelphia Palo Alto, San Francisco.
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