The main reason I wanted to come back to school was honestly
to sharpen my skills within data analytics.
Given that it's something that I'm tasked with every day
and looking at data that comes in through the exchange.
It's something where I wanted to make sure that I was able
to fully understand myself.
I was somebody who was in a creative job field,
and wasn't necessarily a math student in undergrad,
and I was looking for a way to gauge what kind
of opportunities would be open to me.
I graduated with my undergraduate in 2009.
I spent time nannying, bartending, making ends meet…
and then in 2015 when I moved here to Chicago, I was looking
for a way to re-enter academia.
I studied at DePaul. I had a degree
in biological sciences. I consistently get emails about
various career advancement opportunities,
and since I had already been considering going
to business school, I got one from the Graham School,
and that seemed to be really perfect timing,
and a great next move for me.
So how do you go from being very comfortable and working full
time to being a student again? How do you sort of dip your toe
in that water and begin taking classes and figure out what's
the right program for you? For me that was the GSAL.
The Graduate Student-at-Large program is an opportunity
that allows students to explore or to dig deeper
into a particular field or area of study that they think
they might be interested in going into for their future
either professional career or academic study.
So I'm currently a graduate student-at-large through
the Graham School, but specifically I'm under
the GSALB program — Gradute
Student-at-Large in Business. So this program is specifically
for students who are considering getting an MBA.
Whether it's at Booth or beyond.
It's such a great opportunity. You get to take up to three
classes at Booth. Real Booth classes, with real
Booth students taught by real Booth professors.
And I took a couple of classes, and I realized that I definitely
wanted to go to business school, I definitely wanted
to go with Booth. And more than that, I realized I
could do it.
The main advantage that I received
from the
Graduate Student-at-Large program,
was that I was able to test the waters — to see whether or
not some of the prerequisite courses were something
that I can even handle given the rigor
of the University of Chicago. And given that I was able
to successfully complete the course with an "A"
in the class, then I was able to show myself and prove
to myself that this is something that I would be able to do,
and succeed at.
It's a program that allows students the flexibility
to discover for themselves what their calling might be,
what they're good at. And also with the sort
of structure of a lot of rigorous academic advising.
The advisors have been absolutely fantastic.
They helped me when I was going through
the application process — gave me a lot of tips.
They talked to me about career moves, logistics,
administrative… just life in general.
They've been really supportive.
They helped guide me back into academia by helping me
focus on
what it was that I wanted to study.
By helping me conceptualize what sorts of programs would be
good for me, and more than anything just reassuring
that I belonged.
You know there's a lot of smart people anywhere you go.
Definitely at the University of Chicago.
But everyone's a person, and they're a lot like you.
And if you have the opportunity to try that on, you might find
that you are a University of Chicago person.
Without the
Graduate Student-at-Large program,
I would have been a less critical thinker.
And the University of Chicago is one of the last places maybe
that fosters that kind of critical inquiry
with an enthusiasm that you can feel.
The greatest asset to the University of Chicago
is its community. Really intelligent individuals,
really fantastic people who are all looking for you to succeed.
I would say that if you're looking to come back to school
and are maybe unsure of the decision
that you would want to take in terms of your major,
or what program you'd like to go into,
the Graduate Student-at-Large program offers you the ability
to take these courses to see whether or not what you may have
an interest in that may be career changing, and if you can
take that to the next level.
It's been a year now since I finished my first class,
and I can't believe that here I am halfway through my MBA,
and only a few classes away from graduating.
And I never would have thought that this would —
that something like this would be possible
for me if it weren't for
the Graduate Student-at-Large program.
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