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 | 16 Sep 2015 | Career
In early 2013, I was a little depressed with my job. I joined the US Army the day after 9/11 and after serving 7 years of active duty, I moved to the ranks of defense contracting and eventually a government civil service job. To no fault of the mission or the people,...
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...
by Lewis Nelson | 11 Apr 2008 | Career
Ingredients: 1 3/4 c – flour 1 tsp – baking soda 1/2 tsp – salt 1 1/4 c – brown sugar 1 c – butter 1/2 c – sugar 2 – eggs 2 Tbsp – milk 2 tsp – vanilla 2 c – chocolate chips (semi-sweet) 2 1/2 c – quick...
