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Going back to when I started,
I can honestly say I didn't achieve everything I was looking for,
I achieved more.
I kind of came in expecting that, you know, I'd walk in,
and two years later, I'd have, you know,
a great new job in a different industry.
But, just the things that I've picked up:
The relationships with professors,
being challenged intellectually each and every day.
A network of people that I know that I can
count on if I ever need anything.
I don't think that you can ask for much more,
and it definitely exceeded my expectations.
I think that the small size of the Broad program
is a really big help because you get
to interact with your faculty one-on-one.
They know who you are, they're able to answer
any questions that you have.
You develop a relationship, whether it be, you know,
something other than just a student in class.
They're willing to help you beyond graduation.
My personal experience, I still am in touch
with several of my professors when I come up with a question
that I have today.
I think that's a great advantage.
The team aspect of the program
is very important on both a personal and a professional level
simply because that's how we work today in business.
You have to be able to be prepared to work with teams that are
not only different in location, different in educational background,
different in cultural background.
And I think that one of the strengths of the Broad program is that
by having to get through these challenges
while you're in a structured environment
makes it a lot easier when you have to do it for real, as they would say.
Every day, I can't think of a day where I don't go by
where I don't have to make a call to China,
work with someone from India.
And just having the experience of knowing a little bit about
cultural background from my peers here at Broad,
has helped me immensely.
The reason that I like to recruit at MSU,
first of all, it's a world-renowned program.
We know that the professors are on the leading edge of research,
we know that they're teaching it to their students,
and we know that it's a small enough program
to where there is that interaction.
We know that we can expect students from Michigan State
to have great team skills, to have great presentation skills,
to have been stretched and challenged
in the program academically.
And then also we know that Michigan State
is very choosy about who they let in to their program,
so we know that the students are gonna have applicable experience,
they're gonna be able to come in and make an impact
and a difference on day one.
The career services and placement was probably the first experience
that I had with the Broad program,
and the best part about it was they forced you
to take your own journey.
They forced you to say, "What do you want out of the program?"
They forced you to work towards what you wanted out of the program.
But you always knew that they were there.
You had somebody who had your back,
who was gonna work for ya,
who was gonna help you develop the contacts that you needed,
who was gonna help you develop the skills that you needed.
You were gonna have a person in your corner that was gonna tell ya,
"Hey, this is what you're doing wrong."
You were gonna have a person in your corner sayin',
"Hey, this is what you're doing right."