Four Years Flew By
For the past four years, every Monday at 6:30 p.m., I attended my sorority’s weekly chapter meeting. At the beginning of this month, I attended the last Kappa Delta meeting of the semester, which was also my last Kappa Delta meeting ever. The last meeting of each semester is our Alumnae Inductions ceremony. At this [...]
The Importance of Courage
At the beginning of my accounting ethics class, our professor gave us an assignment—read any book of our choice. Once a week, in small groups, we discuss the ethical themes prevalent in our books. My group and I noticed a recurring theme in our discussions—the role of courage in ethics. We do not believe people [...]
White-Collar Criminal in the Classroom
In my accounting ethics class, I found myself sitting face-to-face with a white-collar criminal; albeit, he was actually Skyping us from his New York apartment while we were sitting in a classroom in College Station. Nevertheless, it was a rare opportunity speaking with an inside trader who has been featured in major news publications over [...]
Back to School
While my two mini-mester classes are keeping me busy (we have already had a test!), I have discovered this rare concept known as “free time.” For most of my peers, “free time” has been a myth we have heard spread around Wehner for the past few years. Few have actually experienced it, and many doubt [...]
Springing Forward
The way the Professional Program in Accounting sets up our minimester classes fortunately provides us a two-week break in between our internships and school. After working 50 to 75 hours each week during busy season, I enthusiastically welcomed the extended spring break. I used these two weeks to spend time with family, move back to [...]
See you later, Corporate World!
Ten weeks of auditing flew by quickly, and my internship is now over. I really enjoyed my internship experience. In fact, I enjoyed it enough to sign a full-time offer, starting fall of 2013. While I had fun in the corporate world, I am happy to resume college life During recruiting for this internship, professionals [...]
Austin Road Trip
Fact: I love musicals. My favorite musical so far has been Wicked. I saw it a few years ago in New York, and since then, I have been waiting for it to come to Texas. When I heard Wicked was coming to Austin, I immediately rallied my friends together to attend with me last weekend. [...]
Houston Happenings
I have completed the fifth week of my internship, and I do not know where the time has gone. I have been learning a lot about the audit process, and when I am not in the audit room, I have had some time to explore Houston. Here are a few highlights of my internship experience [...]
Home Sweet Houston
Howdy from Houston! At the beginning of January, my roommate and I moved to Houston for our long-awaited audit internships. We packed up our clothes and some necessities (four cereal bowls, a few utensils, a lamp, a toaster, etc.) from our house in College Station and moved to our new home for ten weeks. Since [...]
Goodbye, 2011!
The semester is over, and now, I am at home catching up on sleep, reading books for fun and preparing for the holidays. I cannot believe 2011 is already coming to an end. As the cliché goes, time flies when you are having fun. It even flies when you are not having that much fun, [...]