by Lewis Nelson | 18 Nov 2015 | Charlottesville, MBA
Many of my MBA for Executives classmates do not live in Charlottesville. It’s unfortunate because they miss out on a lot of local opportunities through Darden clubs. I joined the Darden Military Association (DMA), Darden Technology Club, and the Darden Wine...
by Lewis Nelson | 12 Oct 2015 | Career, MBA
We are nearing the end of our first term of the MBA for Executives (EMBA) program at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business and it has been quite the ride already. Our cohort of 62 has finished a week-long leadership residency (LR1), two...
by Lewis Nelson | 8 Oct 2015 | Career, MBA
Last week I continued my exploration for Darden’s Professional Advancement Course by meeting with a local mobile app development company, WillowTree Apps. *Note: Some of the comments below are my interpretation and opinion from what I actually heard from Michael...
by Lewis Nelson | 26 Sep 2015 | Career, MBA
For our Professional Advancement Course, we were asked to conduct an informational interview. I still don’t know what my future after Darden looks like: it could be a promotion at work, or maybe it’s a job in a new industry, or maybe I decide to...
by Lewis Nelson | 15 Sep 2015 | MBA
Getting accepted into Darden was a dream come true. After the stress of feeling unqualified for a top business school with a median GMAT score, history degree, and almost no actual private business experience, I then had about six months to both mentally and...
by Lewis Nelson | 12 Sep 2015 | MBA
The 14th anniversary of 9/11 just came to a close. It’s kind of symbolic for me to be writing this post from the Darden Inn, the on-grounds lodging at the University of Virginia’s business school, because when the first plane hit on the actual 9/11, I was...