All About Me

 

Hello Northeastern universe! My name is Amy Foley, and I am a first-year, full-time MBA student. 

This is me!

Anyway, I am currently enrolled in Northeastern’s MBA program. Like most others in the program, I chose Northeastern because of the Corporate Residency program, which allows full-time students to take on an MBA-level position at a company for 6 months. As a career changer, this program is definitely something that will give me experience and help me build my network. Also, Northeastern has a fantastic reputation for academic rigor. The fact that about 98% of MBA graduates are employed six months after graduation was also a huge draw to the program.

As a career changer, I obviously did not start my career in business. In fact, my career did not even reflect my undergraduate major. For the past two years, I have worked in the editorial department for Pearson Education, an educational publisher. (Just look on the spine of any textbook that you still own from college, there is a good change that it is a Pearson product.) After two years at Pearson, I realized that publishing is great, but it’s not for me. I decided to pursue an MBA in order to gain important skills that are transferrable to a variety of industries. At the moment, I am interested in both corporate finance and non-profit finance. Whichever path I choose, I want to work for a company that has a strong mission.

A little bit about myself and family. My mother is a middle school teacher, and my father is an IT consultant. My older sister is an athletic trainer for a local high school, and my twin sister is currently at Great Falls University in Montana as a Masters of Organizational Management candidate. She is also the assistant coach for the Great Falls women’s soccer team. I grew up in Foxboro, MA, but my family moved to Rockland, MA my junior year of high school. I must have caught the moving bug, because I went to UMass Amherst my first year of college, then transferred to Simmons College for the remainder. At Simmons I studied Arts Administration and English. Don’t know what Arts Administration is? Don’t worry. Most of the time when I tell someone my undergraduate major, I get a blank stare. My study of Arts Administration included half coursework in art history and half coursework in management, in preparation to work for a museum. 

Hands-on experience with art!

More about myself. I live in Malden, Massachusetts with my fiancé, Jim. He proposed in Disney World last November, and we are currently planning the wedding for August 2012. At the moment, we know where we will have the ceremony and the reception, I have the dress, and we have the rings. Right now, I am trying to motivate myself to design the save the dates. 

He proposed with a ring; I proposed with a pickle.

I also teach the Blessed Sacrament A winter guard, which is an independent high school winter color guard that competes nationally. Don’t know what winter color guard is? Remember in high school when people dancing with flags and other equipment performed with the marching band? Take that activity, put it indoors, get rid of the marching band, and multiply it by 100. That’s winter color guard. For four years, I performed with Blessed Sacrament’s world guard, but last year I started teaching the high school guard instead of performing. At nationals last spring, I realized exactly how rewarding teaching is.

I look forward to writing this blog and sharing my first year experience with you!

*The views expressed in this blog are not necessarily those of Northeastern University, its staff, faculty or affiliates and are solely the opinion of Amy Foley.*