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Justine Kakembo, Class of 2012
The Graduate Student Association at Northwestern: their mission? ‘We are here to help with any questions or concerns you may have about graduate life at Northwestern’. Trust me, you want these newsletters, emails and flyers in your inbox and forwarded to your regular mail for the duration of your stay at Northwestern and after. This [...]
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Justine Kakembo, Class of 2012
My fascination with the formation of an ethical foundation and the subsequent behavioral patterns we develop overtime, is once again being brought to life in lieu of what’s happening in our political stage. I for one glazed over Congressman Todd Akin’s comments about abortion,(if its a legitimate rape, the fe….What?!) fumed for a second then tuned him out. However a new [...]
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Justine Kakembo, Class of 2012
There’s so much more to this program than the benefits of an honest education alone. We have reiterated the issue of great classmates and targeted courses however one of the main features and most utilized privileges remains to be acknowledged-The Break Room. Or as I call it, my one stop shop for food, gossip, fun [...]
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Justine Kakembo, Class of 2012
The matter has been long contested before I ever got into this program but it always begs to be re-addressed: who exactly is responsible for building our moral compasses? Our parents, society, religious and educational instructors? at what point in time do we start to draw the line on right and wrong on which our [...]
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Justine Kakembo, Class of 2012
One of the benefits to this program besides getting an education that directly co-relates to your needs is actually putting it to work. I have been revamping my main networking site –LinkedIn- to map out a useful and reliable pattern outlining my strong and weak ties and then applying what I have learned so far [...]
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Justine Kakembo, Class of 2012
The International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) is probably the world’s biggest and most enterprising network of business communicators that I know of and am glad to be a part of. One of the great things about this program (MSC) is that we get to experience the communications field in a myriad of ways. Our [...]
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Justine Kakembo, Class of 2012
Last week, I attended an IABC/Chicago luncheon entitled “When Market Forces Demand Change: Evolving the **AlphaGraphics Business Model and Brand” at Maggiano’s fabulous Banquet room on Clark street. It was a two hour networking and presentation event that roughly encased an outline of my MSC studies to date. Presented by industry giant, Liz Brohan, CEO [...]
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Justine Kakembo, Class of 2012
We all heard the major uproar that was sparked by a tiny YouTube video (88,415,215 and counting views) that took up all of 29 minutes of our precious time and sparked a world-wide fiasco famously eclipsed by a naked man running down a street (well that’s all most people remember now!). This story will one day make a [...]
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Justine Kakembo, Class of 2012
I have embarked on a highly targeted mission that seemed impossible once upon a time, but I am now convinced is not only entirely possible but completely worth pursuing, and that is a career in consulting at Bain. Why did I think it was impossible? Well for starters, I don’t have a finance background, hate [...]
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Justine Kakembo, Class of 2012
Chicago O’Hare T5: The End is in sight…right?
It’s that benchmark…two down and two to go and am finally around the corner and can see customs at the end!. (Chicago Terminal 5 US Customs and Immigration counter). For those of us with the unremarkable privilege of having travelled through International terminal 5 at Chicago’s O’Hare airport, [...]
