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Brittany Hardin:The business honors program has just been a really integral part of my education. I know that Mays Business
School talks about having-not wanting to like separate your classes and not wanting to have different silos
of education. They want it to be one cumulative experience and I feel like the business honors
program, for me, has tied that all in together. I've really preferred my business honors classes
to regular classes. With the business honors classes, I actually get to know my professors.
We get to get involved in discussion, and I love to discuss, so in those opportunities, it's more Socratic and
I've learned just incredible amounts about life and business; not only just what I'm
learning in school but how to apply it to what I'm learning in life. So much of A&M
is about the other education and the business honors program has really provided venues
for me to experience and it's put-put into action what I've learned.
James Benjamin:I think the business honors program is very important because it gives outstanding students
the opportunity to work with other great students in a small classroom with motivated faculty.
Jerry Strawser:From a student standpoint, you will never be in a more challenging learning environment, you'll
never be in-sitting among and working with a better group of people and you'll never have
a learning experience quite like this. I think the learning experiences in business honors
will not only teach you accounting and finance and management, marketing, information systems
and supply chain but just teach you a lot about business in general and teach you about
citizenship and life in general. From a faculty perspective, it's a-it's a dream assignment. You
have small classes, you have highly motivated students and you have the opportunity to make
a significant impact and impression on students who are going to graduate from Texas A&M University
and go on to great things in their lives.
Paige Fields:
You do allow yourself a higher level of achievement if you're surrounding yourself with a very high
level of students. The professor has to try to aim, sort of, towards the center of the class and
if the center of the class is at a very high level, that's going to allow you to learn
at a very high level.
Zach Neal:
For me, for my first internship, I got it directly through the business honors program.
They only marketed to the program and Aggies on Wall Street. So by being part of the program,
I got exposure to different opportunities that the majority of the people in the business
school did not get and so I attribute my entire beginning of my career and my internship
directly to the business honors program.
Kris Morley:
I'm just very proud of the students in the program. You know, a lot of them go out and
they have fantastic jobs but they're really committed to their community and they really
do want to make the world a better place. And so many of our students are going out
to work for Teach for America, to work for microcredit banks. They're really making a
great impact on the world in areas other than business.
Paige Fields:
I think anyone who can be involved in student honors, anyone who has the grade point average
and the desire really should challenge himself or herself to be in the business honors program.
I don't think all students who are capable oftaking advantage of the situation do but
I think they should.
Brittany Hardin:
I just really encourage anybody. I remember applying my senior year in high school. I
knew I was going to get into A&M, I was not worried about that but getting into the business
school and getting into the business honors program I think was the highlight and that was
what I was really looking towards; that's what A&M was for me academically. And now
that I'm here, it's an experience I'll never forget.
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Everyone should be involved in the business honors program.