ALL POSTS BY: Stephanie Dozier
Owen Podcast Series: B-School as an International Student
Hoang Lan Huyen Ton Nu (Lan Huyen for short) was born and raised in Vietnam. She studied and then worked in Singapore as an analytical manager in a marketing data consulting firm. She is concentrating in Finance and Operations. This summer, she will be in Austin, Texas to work as an Internship Senior Advisor in the finance department at Dell.
Reflections on the First Semester…
We got through it! Despite all the concern about failing Finance and finding time for our personal lives, we all survived and thrived through the first semester. Granted, it was a little rough those first few weeks of Mod 1 until I realized that I would need to schedule personal tasks, like going to the gym or getting groceries, into my Outlook calendar or my time would quickly be filled with meeting requests and other things would be neglected. But eventually, I figured that out, and occasionally I actually got to do the personal things I tried to plan!
This Mod was when we really started getting to know our classmates, during Thursday Socials, Tailgating events, and just spending time together in and outside of class. We have a wonderful class, and it’s been amazing to hear so many different perspectives as we discuss cases. In my LTO class, we had a former NASA employee who could give us insight into the culture as we went over our NASA case!