I'm a college kid, here's my college info...

The UT Tower

Hi. I'm Laura and I attend the lovely University of Texas in gorgeous downtown Austin, a wonderful city I know and love. UT is pretty darn big. We have about 50 thousand students at UT. Yes, that's about 50 THOUSAND students all on ONE campus. As of this year, we are officially the largest university in the United States! Be proud!

I think that the one thing making UT such a neat school is the fact that there are so many different kinds of people here all together on one campus. There is a tremendous amount of diversity among our students. In addition to that, we have a good number of freaks and a very large international population as well. We also, of course, have all around cool people like me who'd like to be international or a freak.
I'm in the College of Business Administration (CBA) here at UT. It's a great business college, ranked 5th in the nation for Undergrad programs. For the last two summers I interned at EDS. They were both good internships, but sadly, working 40+ hours a week and taking summer school every night kinda kept me pretty busy. Not to mention dating my lovely co-worker Jason. Not a lot of free time this past summer. This summer I trekked to Houston to work as an analyst for Arthur Andersen. Being a part of their Computer Risk Management group was quite an experience. A sincere thank you goes out to the individuals that were there for me this summer guiding me through the crazy experience.
I am a Management Information Systems (MIS) major here, and our MIS department is ranked 5th in the nation (go UT!).

College of Business Administration Building &
Graduate School of Business Building
Sophomore year I was President of the Freshman Business Association (I've always loved my freshman!). FBA is a great organization designed to acclimate business freshman to college life through business and social activites. Visit the FBA Web Page!
I'm also in the MIS Association. My first semester I was named Freshman of the Year and was given the Denis Rodman Award (for dying my hair lots of times!). I've just finished my fifth semester of MISA and I still love it! Great friends, great companies, and all kinds of fun! I was president of the club spring semester of junior year. I've also been Vice President Programs, VP Planning, Publicity Officer, and Newsletter Editor. Like I said, it's a great club and the people are just fantastic (they really are my extended family!).
Visit us at www.texasmisa.org
In these two organizations I do about everything I can to help out and be active (which entails about 5 bazillion meetings each week, hmm.... maybe that's why my life is so busy?)
I'm now a senior - good gosh I'm getting old. ;) I volunteer with Project Phase, a homeless center near the university, and I also work with the UT volunteer Center. And, of course, I am still a Girl Scout (an adult Girl Scout now mind you). I've been a scout for 15 years now.

West Mall Fountian
and Architecture Building
In the CBA, I was on the committee organizing the First Ever CBA Leadership Conference and I also was on the committees organizing the CBA Career and Intern Expos, both are expos designed to bring big name companies to campus to recruit and offer our students jobs. (I'm such a good kid).

Jester Center
Jester Dorm is made up of all of the buildings you see: the short ones in front and the sky rises on the right and in the back. Jester is the largest dorm in the whole world. Exciting, eh? I don't live there, but friends who do refer to it as Jester State Prision. Can't imagine why, I'd think it would be just one giant party place (if it weren't for university rules...).

UT is just one big school with a whole lot to offer. It's neat if you can take the initiative and take advantage of all it has... I'm definitely trying to do just that.

And for the sake of fairness...

I have a big brother, whom I love to death, who graduated from Texas A&M University in May 1998 (finally!). If for some unknown reason you want to visit the A&M web page, click the picture of Bonfire, and you'll be there. By the way, I'm very proud of my big brother, he was one of the Brown Pots for Bonfire (ie: one of the nine senior coordinators of the largest student ran construction project in the entire world) and he's been a fish camp counselor too. Somehow he managed to finally graduate, get a great job at an engineering firm in Austin, and even get engaged to a really terrific girl, Stef. :)

http://piglet.cc.utexas.edu/~jepsy/

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