My Experience in the 4+1 Program at Thunderbird with John

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When I think about my current experience, so I'm doing, I did the four plus one, I'm currently in the middle of my plus one year. So last year when I was undergrad, um, I would say it was a difficult time, it was a lot of work to balance, you know, my capstone for undergrad, I had a thesis to do in the meantime, I was taking these graduate courses as well. Um, but mind you, Thunderbird has, it's structured in a really nice way where the first year is kind of that general, you know, cosmopolitan outlook on the business environment. We have it set up in a really nice way where each class isn't just focused on one subject area, but it's focused on to that are related. So instead of taking a semester long class worth of just finance or just accounting, we combined them into two and we have to professors, both experts in that area to teach us those skills as well. I was taking finance and accounting, leadership and strategy, communications and negotiations. So that combined experience really accelerates that learning and I felt completely caught up as I would have come out of an underground in business. Um, and having no prior experience, you know, I'm very comfortable and very grateful that we have it set up that way um, to really bring in that success. So now that I'm in my plus one year now I can focus on that sustainability aspects. So I've been taking classes where I'm working with community partners. Um, my current class right now, I'm working with the city of Tucson's, develop a greenhouse gas emissions, you know, inventory and strategy. So those things have only come with the expertise of that business world. I've learned about strategy and you know, where the money comes in, right that finance, how to play at those scales, but then applying that under the lens of my concentration and sustainability is fantastic. I have plenty of peers who are working in in those sub concentrations Global finance and global accounting, or, you know, they're working in Fintech, there's a lot of conversation about the fourth Industrial revolution and what that means. So when we talk about how society is shaping itself and how things are changing with artificial intelligence, with Blockchain, with the internet of things with just like overall global connectivity, this the rate at which we're able to scale, uh not only, you know, encompasses our education, but really each of those sub concentrations of our education, can that be influenced at that level. Coming to Thunderbird is really what's what's been valuable to me is that global mindset that global community.