Getting and MBA is kinda like driving the Texas Hill Country

There are two more weeks of semester 5.  I don't know where the time went, but this has to have been the fastest semester of the program by far.  I've enjoyed the material and the professors, and now is the time to finish strong.

This week, Team Awesome, as we refer to ourselves, provides a sustainability study on one of the group member's employers.  Being that we all experience CTX, and one of our members works there, we decided to focus on this organization for this semester long project.

It wasn't long before this study began to reflect the complex nature of the university system.  You have so many departments, and focus areas from bringing the students in, all the things they do while they're there, to what happens afterwards.  All this plus strategic planning, development of an endowment and then there's the whole industry analysis.  Even thinking about a leader's role in this type of organization makes my head spin.  I'll admit to feeling inadequate if I was given such a task.

Its been 21 months since this journey began.  Sometimes this journey's felt like a drive in the hill country.  There's been the ups of feeling called to leadership, and the downs of feeling there's so much further to go before I am who I really want to be.  There's been the winding and turning as I reach to incorporate new ideas and paradigms.  And here I stand- one semester shy of my MBA.  While there's further to go, I can see how far I've come.

We're wrapping up, not only figuratively in the program, but quite literally on the project before us.  There's been highs of determining our scope, lows of scheduling and the turns of a sick group member right before the presentation.  We'll meet again today to do a final walk through of the presentation, and for a moment, I'll just take this in, just like we do the scenes of wild flowers and bald eagle's nests in the hill country.  Knowing what I know now, and preparing myself for the future to someday be able to offer this as part of my skill set to help my community and my organization.