{"id":837,"date":"2015-11-10T16:25:56","date_gmt":"2015-11-10T16:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/visions\/?p=837"},"modified":"2018-02-08T13:33:45","modified_gmt":"2018-02-08T13:33:45","slug":"graduate-alumni-qa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/visions\/graduate-alumni-qa\/","title":{"rendered":"Graduate alumni Q&#038;A"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/visions\/files\/2015\/11\/Visions_JohnArnett_6MAY15_00001-s.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-838 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/visions\/files\/2015\/11\/Visions_JohnArnett_6MAY15_00001-s-601x900.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"601\" height=\"900\" \/><\/a>Find out why other alumni are getting their graduate degrees from Tech<\/p>\n<p>JOHN ARNETT, \u201901 MBA,\u00a0\u201995 B.S. MECHANICAL ENGINEERING<\/p>\n<p>WHY COME BACK TO SCHOOL?<\/p>\n<p>I had a three-year gap of engineering work\u00a0before I came back. I didn\u2019t want to get a master\u2019s\u00a0in engineering. I wanted to get into management\u00a0in some form. I had some buddies doing it so we\u00a0did it together.<\/p>\n<p>I did it more for personal reasons. In engineering,\u00a0I didn\u2019t take the business electives as there wasn\u2019t\u00a0much time. I really decided to come back and\u00a0get my MBA to become a better engineer.<\/p>\n<p>HOW HAS YOUR DEGREE HELPED\u00a0IN YOUR PROFESSION?<\/p>\n<p>If you have an advanced degree, the industry\u00a0regards you differently. You\u2019re looked upon as having\u00a0a better understanding of the way a business works.\u00a0The MBA allowed me to progress.<\/p>\n<p>WHAT WAS THE BEST THING\u00a0ABOUT YOUR GRADUATE\u00a0EXPERIENCE AT TTU?<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t know that I can say there\u2019s one thing.\u00a0I was excited about going back and learning\u00a0something new, the same way I felt about\u00a0starting engineering school my freshman year.\u00a0I was also excited about meeting new people.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Find out more about Tech\u2019s\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>College of Business MBA program\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tntech.edu\/graduatestudies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tntech.edu\/graduatestudies<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Find out why other alumni are getting their graduate degrees from Tech JOHN ARNETT, \u201901 MBA,\u00a0\u201995 B.S. MECHANICAL ENGINEERING WHY COME BACK TO SCHOOL? I had a three-year gap of engineering work\u00a0before I came back. I didn\u2019t want to get a master\u2019s\u00a0in engineering. I wanted to get into management\u00a0in some form. I had some buddies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":838,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-837","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fall15"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/visions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/visions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/visions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/visions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/visions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=837"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/visions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1160,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/visions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837\/revisions\/1160"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/visions\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/visions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/visions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/visions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}