A Full MBLE Life
A Full MBLE Life
How time flies! I couldn’t imagine that we just finished our first semester. It’s a significant journey that happened so many things, including happiness and difficulty but made us quickly grow up.
The studying portion
Back to what we learn from this semester, we not only get benefit from the dense academic atmosphere in class, which can make us positively participate in class, such as having discussions, doing projects with classmates, and even studying from playing games in class. Indeed, an excellent academic atmosphere helps us deeper thinking. But also, through the way of guest speakers in class and tour visit activities, we have opportunities to know people who work in supply chain and logistics companies, such as Land Grant Brewing Company, DHL and UPS. Combining the knowledge with practice, MBLE program greatly instills to students.
The career portion
I have to say what the Fisher Career Department did for MBLE’s career can’t be better. In this semester, we have a lot of opportunities for networking. The first is the Career Fair. At the beginning of this semester, the start of September, we had two big Career Fairs, including the TLA Career Fair and the Fisher Career. It’s a channel provided for MBLE students to meet face to face with recruiters of related supply chain and logistics companies, such as Amazon, GE, and DHL. There is no worry about the performance in the career fair. Because, before the start, from June, the Fisher Career Center has been helping MBLE students to fully prepare, including helping students form their own START, revising resume, and teaching how to prepare to interview. Next, we have all kinds of experience sharing meetings. For example, Fisher Career Center invited the alumni of the MBLE, such as some employees in LBrands and DHL, to share their working experience in supply chain and logistics area, and also invited second-year MBLEs to share the experience of an internship in companies like Cummins, Niagara Bottling, and Greif. The third benefit is the mentorship program, which provides each MBLEs a chance to know a mentor who works in the field of supply chain, logistics, retail, and other industries, and communicate with our mentor up to six months. In this semester, we had a big dinner networking night which provided a chance for every student to know any mentor. In addition, Fisher Career Center did other events to help MBLEs build their basic career wherever in America and China.
The fun portion
In addition to our first activity for celebrating Mid-Autumn Festival, we held another interesting party for celebrating Halloween Festival. For better experiencing the pleasure of Halloween Festival, everyone made up with a strange appearance, together carved pumpkins, and ate traditional American snacks. Via playing games together, this happy time facilitated our friendship with each other.
The last activity we held a potluck party for celebrating the Thanksgiving Day. We did some traditional Chinese food, American food, and even Spanish food! We also invited our Director of MBLE program, Steve DeNunzio and Corp & Grad Relations Specialist of Fisher Career Center, Steve Singer, to participate in this food communication event. We chatted with each other, learning about the history of Thanksgiving Day and the ways of celebrating the special festival for American. How wonderful night when everyone was surrounded by many cuisines!
It’s really a fulfilling semester, but actually, it’s just a start! I believe there are many interesting and significant things waiting for us MBLEs to explore!