Opportunities

It amazes me the opportunities they throw at students these days. Seriously.

The Classics dept is sponsoring a Spring Break trip to Italy (cost is pretty steep - the only thing keeping me off the list).

Many departments have programs to study abroad for a semester or a summer. Classics is offering a summer Study-Abroad tour of Turkey and Greece. Also a bit expensive, but mostly non-doable for us married-with-mortgage types.

In Accounting class on Tuesday there was a representative from PricewaterhouseCoopers who announced their annual contest for Accounting/Business majors wherein they present a fictitious "real world" problem to teams of five or six students who have two weeks to come up with a proposed solution - no wrong answers, just "better" ones. Winning team gets $1000 and a chance to be in the nation's top five teams who get $10,000 and a trip to New York to compete again.

Eller College of Management is opening up their Global Enterpreneurship Program as a minor this year. Info meeting is Thursday. I haven't picked a minor yet so I'll attend and see what that's about.

There are career fairs every time you turn around with potential employers numbering in the hundreds - both local and national - right here on campus to talk about careers and job openings they hope to fill with fresh graduates (go ahead and finish your degree... they'll wait!).

And these are just what is available this week; and only the ones I heard about! Obviously there are many many more I'm not even aware of. It's enough to make your head spin. These kids just don't know how good they have it!