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Feed My Starving Children: Eliminating starvation around the world
Last Saturday a group of 15 Full-time UST MBA students, and some of their partners, had the opportunity to help improve the life of starving children around the world by working as volunteers at Feed My Starving Children. Among its other outreach, FMSC is helping relief efforts in Haiti after the earthquake there: When the…
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Getting started on my second semester
This week we finished our two-week J-term fresh with the leadership and communication skills needed to start and succeed in our second semester. On Wednesday we were assigned to our ABR (Applied Business Reserach) clients. The list of clients this year was quite diverse, including Dairy Queen, Hennepin County Medical Center, internal University of St.… -
New Challenges
Yesterday we finished our first week of J-term. We have each been assigned to new groups for the Spring Semester. During this week he had some team building activities that allowed us to get to know each other better. Our most challenging project for the next semester is our ABR (Applied Business Research) project. In… -
Happy New Year!
HAPPY NEW YEAR 2010! I hope everyone had great holidays. My husband and I traveled back home to spend the holidays with our family and friends and just came back last Thursday to start preparing ourselves for the next semester. Today we started J-term. During this period we are going to dedicate exclusively to our… -
Project report as the semester winds down
We are only three weeks away from our finals. And we have two projects to deliver before December 10: a statistics project, which is based on a survey that we designed and distributed among faculty, staff and students, and our final report and presentation for our LINKS project. The last one is going to be… -
A busy week for a student
This week a lot of things happened. First on Wednesday my husband and I celebrated our fourth month of marriage. And we went to a great pub just one block away from the university, The Newsroom. We drank some wine and we ate the best appetizer in the Earth: fried brie cheese with raspberry sauce.… -
Professional Fridays: Great River Energy
This week was really fun. On Friday, as part of our Professional Fridays, we went to Great River Energy. We had the opportunity to learn about the energy business directly from one of the top executives of the company. Also we visited the facilities and learned how they use renewable energy to run their operations… -
We survived midterms!
Midterms were pretty intensive. It’s not easy to study for the exams and at the same time prepare for each class. But know we are almost halfway done with the semester. This weekend we can relax a little bit and prepare ourselves for the second half. Since the temperatures are getting lower, tomorrow we are… -
Midterms Approach
Today my husband and I are celebrating our third month of marriage. I cannot believe it!!! Just three months ago we were in Venezuela single. And now we are in Minnesota, married and doing our MBA. But we are not only studying, we also are looking for our summer internships. So this week we went…