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I’m writing this on a Tuesday evening, having just realised that I took my last class in my graduate program today. But now is not the time to reminisce – that’s in a few weeks. Instead, I’m going … Read More

As I was writing the last post, I discovered a topic I probably should talk about. So I’m well into my job recruitment phase, much much later than the rest of my class. Last set of statistics said that about 80% … Read More

I just finished an assignment where I was working with a teammember from another school at CMU (ETC). We had to design a game together, playtest it, then write up the analysis of the game. It was due yesterday, and we … Read More

I’ve just spent the last week in sunny, warm San Francisco at the Game Developers Conference. While this post is not going to be exactly Tepper-experience-related, it is related to my own ambitions post-MBA. GDC, … Read More

Well, folks, it’s nearly it. This is the very last mini I need to take and then I’ve completed my degree. What a crazy, wild, exhilarating two years it’s been. A number of my classmates are in Germany … Read More

So I’ve been on Spring Break for the last week or so, and I’m looking at the conclusion of this break with mild trepidation and annoyance. Like I’m sure many have before me, I came into this break with … Read More

It has been a very long while since I last posted, but that is because a lot has happened over the past couple of weeks that has caused me to neglect my blog. Everything people had been telling me was that year 2 was … Read More

This last week/two weeks have been pretty horrendous for me. When a lot of my classes are project-based, like they are now, I make sure to have my main involvement in the each project to occur at a different time than … Read More

About a year before I left my organization for my MBA program, a new directive passed down from the C-Suite: performance ratings had to be toned down. It seems like nearly everyone had super star employees; but the … Read More

I opened up my inbox today to receive a campus-wide email inviting CMU students to discuss the “culture” of CMU in response to an article that was posted in the (undergraduate) newspaper, The Tartan. It … Read More

Over the Winter Break, I went back home to Australia to visit my family, introduce my partner to both family and country, and took a small trip to the Whitsundays to snorkel the Great Barrier Reef. During that time, I … Read More

An exercise that we had to do in a class of mine was to list all the “unwritten Tepper rules.” Some so-called “rules” were thrown in, such as: Unattended food in the Master’s Lounge is fair … Read More

I’m going to be spending some time in an aircraft in about a week. PIT -> LAX -> BNE (that’s Brisbane Australia. Yes, I’m going home ). The flight from PIT to LAX is quite long – about 5 … Read More

I had lunch with some prospective students earlier this week, and one of them asked a couple of questions that I couldn’t answer. The first question: “It seems as though a lot of students are getting jobs and … Read More