This blog is intended to be a way for me to keep track of 2.5 years of MBA stuff. I wanted a way to document important and meaningful information. Things I want to be able to come back to later.

I started the the PMBA program at TCU in August 2011. I will complete the program in December 2013. This is the first semester I’ve had time to create a blog and start adding content. I’m taking only one class right now, which makes life more manageable. A typical semester is a standard 40+ hour work week and then two evening classes per week. Classes are generally on Mondays and Wednesdays or Tuesdays and Thursdays. Classes start at 6:30 pm and end just after 9 pm during Fall and Spring. Summer classes are longer, ending as late as 10 pm. But we do have the best professors in the world, according to The Economist.

The PMBA program is done as a cohort. Students more or less move with the same group of 50-55 people that they started the program with. Of course, not everyone finishes the program, but most do. Upon entering the first semester, students are grouped into teams of 5. That team stays together for at least the first semester. Many groups stick together, though some do not. Teams are assembled based on diversity of skill sets so that students can lean on each others’ strengths and each person can contribute to the team.

I plan to have notes from a variety of classes, including strategy, finance, business law, marketing, and international trips.

My work experience is journalism and marketing, though I haven’t participated in journalism in years. Marketing is my career now.