Tell us a bit about where you work and what you do in your role. I work in LA at SpaceX as a Mechanical Design Engineer for the Structures Team in Vehicle Engineering. More specifically, I’m part of a small team that owns the full design, development, build, and…Read More
Did you enter graduate school or the workforce after graduation? I was hired by Blackstone as their first undergraduate hire in 1989 when there were fewer than 15 investment professionals. I was a financial analyst being the most junior person responsible initially for the numbers on both advisory and private…Read More
Tell us a little bit about your grad program. What is a day in the life like for you? I am currently a 2nd year PhD student in the Joint Program in Financial Economics at the University of Chicago. The program is run jointly by the finance area at Chicago…Read More
Did you enter graduate school or the workforce after graduation? As someone passionate about transportation systems for my entire life, studying Systems Engineering was a natural fit for the engineering component of my M&T undergrad, but I knew I wanted to pursue an advanced degree in this realm with an…Read More
What is a day in the life like for you? Like most working new moms – it’s a juggle. I get up early, try to exercise (the one small window of time each day I get to myself) and have a little bit of time with my baby girl before…Read More
Why did you decide to go on a Wharton Leadership Venture? I first heard of WLV through a friend and I was instantly attracted by the outdoors and leadership aspect of the program. Additionally, who can resist the word “Antarctica?” This is not the same Antarctica that you get by…Read More
by Rohit Majumdar M&T’21 Professor Jeffrey Babin is Practice Professor and Associate Director of the Engineering Entrepreneurship Program. On campus, Profesor Babin is an advisor for the Wharton Venture Initiative Program (VIP) and an entrepreneurial fellow for the Weiss Tech House. He has significant entrepreneurial experience as a founder and…Read More
Much like it is for many families, Thanksgiving is a time for the M&T community to gather, give thanks, and of course, feast! The Jerome Fisher M&T community is lucky to host its own Thanksgiving each year due to the generosity of AQR Capital Management. Current freshman, Aliris Tang (M&T,…Read More
For the M&Ts currently looking for internships like yours, how did you originally find your job at Slack? I’ll start with how I actually became aware of Slack, because that was a driver for why I was interested in working there in the first place. Coming to Penn, I was…Read More
M&TSI was nothing like I anticipated, but in the best possible way. The M&TSI experience started before the program even began. As soon as I knew I was going, I joined a Facebook group for all the RTAs and attendees where everyone began introducing themselves. Through just a few lines,…Read More 
