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my name is Whitney Boyd
& I'm from Charleston, SC. For the past nine years I have been a
government contractor
working with the department of Navy. My primary role at
work is that I'm the Senior Procurement
Assistant & also the security officer there
so I deal with a lot of purchasing contract negotiations
and personnel security clearances. I attended Limestone in Charleston
with the Extended Campus Program. I graduated in 2008.
and I really liked the program that limestone had. I had a good experience
and so when I heard that they were doing the MBA Program, I wanted to sign up and
become a part of it
I'm really challenged myself with this program
and i'd like how the professors had used case studies
to apply knowledge that we have learned from our undergrad
to apply it to real-life scenarios so far my experience at
Limestone has been a really good one. I enjoy learning
new things. I go back to work and I talk to
my colleagues about things I've learned and how
to apply it to real life situations. I can manage my time
easier with online programs. I am a full-time
employee. I am a wife, and I have a 3-year-old daughter. So, I
work from 8 to 5 then come home and cook supper &
spend time with my family and that's when I really after
my daughter goes to bed that's when I really sit behind a computer and
get busy and spend a few hours
on I also, on weekends, do homework
read, on lunch breaks, I read
[laughs] do homework. So I really had to balance it
It's been tough at times. Luckily, I have a supportive husband, and supportive family
my employer pushes education
they offer tuition assistance and
I'd be silly not to utilize it. In my career
I'm dealing with a lot of people that have military
background experience and I don't have that
So I need the education to fill up my resume
and to make myself more marketable as well
I really surprised myself with quantitative methods
when I started looking into this program I saw that that was a
class as required. And I almost didn't sign up because of it
it scared me. But with the help of
the professor... a little outside tutoring
I actually feel like I walked away from that
with a lot of knowledge and that surprised
me. The residency weekends
are a fantastic idea. I think because I
got here. I got to meet professors, I got to meet the director of the program
that meet students that I'll be working with throughout this cohort
they really took time to make us feel comfortable and to
relax us and to ease us into this program because some people haven't been to school in
quite a few years.
and I think it's a fantastic idea. If I set my mind to something
I'm gonna do it. And especially when people doubt me. No saying that anybody doubted
me that I was gonna
do this or complete it but I wanted to challenge myself
I wanted to showed myself
that I can do this. I was looking for
coursework that would
apply to me in real life
not necessarily a
textbook read a paragraph, memorize definitions
I wanted something that would help me apply real life
situations and scenarios and be able to pull that
from what I have learned during the program.
How could an MBA not help me?
its at plan B. It's making myself more marketable
in my industry and without
military background, which I do not have, I feel that I need an educational
background
and an MBA is perfect. It fills that up. I think a little bit
outside the box now. Instead of
staying on track with what I've perhaps seen.
Why not? What's stopping you?
I think that if you have
the drive to do it. Then you should do it.