Serendipity: Learning More from a Day off than from Class

Today, I stopped by a former professor’s office to ask if he wanted to meet for coffee. Immediately, he responded affirmatively, and we spent the next half hour enjoying the caffeinated warmth, which combatted the numbing cold outside. I’d intended to meet with him and a few professors since last spring, but I hadn’t reached […]

Getting un-stuck from a rut

We’ve all been there: we get stuck in our ways and everything seems uninspiring, important, and insignificant. Despite going to a college that loves saying “my heart is in the work,” I fall into a rut all too often. At least for me, it often boils down to feeling like I’m re-living the same day […]

New semester, new opportunities for cliches.

Tepper School of Business | Life at Tepper Student Experience Blog

Although we’re three weeks into 2019, I still have a bit of “new year new me” spirit left in me. Maybe it’s because it’s syllabus week (as if such a thing exists at CMU). Maybe it’s Maybelline. In high school, I was much more organized. That fell off the tracks in college, especially last semester. […]

A Change in my Hard Stance of Soft Skills

Tepper School of Business | Life at Tepper Student Experience Blog

In high school, I believed that I needed to attend the college that would teach me the most, the one that would provide me with the material necessary for whatever career path I chose. Similarly, I used to dismiss soft skills, believing that those who believed in such strengths could only pretend to accomplish work […]

Destigmatizing “Business”

When one typically thinks of an undergraduate “business school,” several images often come to mind. Perhaps most common of all is the vision that all business students walk around wearing suits all day, keeping their business cards on hand, and, as one poster in Carnegie Mellon’s Overheard meme page so eloquently put it, preparing to […]

Meet Wadhwa: Unearthed

Hello World! My name is Meet Wadhwa and I am an Undergraduate Business Administration student in the class of 2022 at the Tepper School of Business.

Tepper Ice Cream Social & Club Fair

Students from undergraduate Business and Economics mingled outside the new Tepper building while the undergraduate Business advisors served up Millie’s ice cream and various student groups advertised their organizations to prospective members.

VSA Partners Meet Our Economics Department!

The Tepper School of Business has retained VSA Partners as its new branding firm. Students from the economics department met with them to tell their stories of why they chose Carnegie Mellon and what the university means to them. The senior members of the VSA strategy team learned that students come here from all over the world […]

PNC Asset Management Program Panel Talk

On Thursday 1/18, several Asset Management Program managers from PNC hosted a panel on-campus to talk about an upcoming summer internship program. They were seeking majors ranging from business and economics to history and other social sciences as well as fields in engineering. Several of the panelists were CMU alums, including Gujri Singh and Theo […]