what if I made a website to chronicle my college experience?

As I write this I am currently 34 days away from my graduation at Brigham Young University. I will receive a Bachelor's of Science in Business Management with an emphasis in Marketing. I've created this website as a way to allow family, friends, and whoever else stumbles across it, to see what I've done with the last five years of my life. The easiest way to get around is to use the links on the sidebar. Feel free to leave comments, share stories, and remind me of anything I've missed. Enjoy!

dirty rotten scoundrels

In December I was cast in Hale Center Theater Orem's regional premiere of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. To my surprise I was called back for one of the two main characters...which I felt honored to even be considered for. In the end I was cast in the ensemble, which I was fine with, because it meant more performances and a better paycheck.

marketing strategy for HCTO

If you haven't heard, four time Tony Award winning actress and singer Audra McDonald is going to be performing at HCTO this summer in 110 in the Shade. As an intern at HCTO I crafted an entire marketing strategy to sell tickets to the event. I was actually very proud of the work that I did (along with some great fellow undergrads from the Marriott School). You can download the strategy here.

grad school

At the beginning of October (after having played around with the idea of studying abroad in Italy in the winter) I decided to apply to grad school for theater management and producing. The two schools I applied to?

Go big or go home.

Curtains opens!

Here are some pictures from Curtains, which was one of the most fun experiences I've had onstage. The cast was amazing and I loved everyone. Doing a show 8 times a week for 8 weeks was killer, but I loved every minute. Here's a link to some pictures: CURTAINS PICTURES

And THIS is a video that a news station from Park City did about the theater.

classes- fall semester 2009

In September I started the Integrated Management Core, a group of five classes that all Marriott School of Management students have to take. Some classes were better than others...here's my breakdown:

Supply Chain Management: This class is boring to most, but super relevant to some. Unfortunately for me, it was boring. Supply Chain is an interesting subject, but not an emphasis that I would want to start my career in. What I learned from the class is that I'd rather hire an operations manager to run the supply chain for my company.

Organization Behavior/Human Resources: Such a cool class, with a great professor (Troy Nielson, for anyone who has to take this class). There were so many applicable principles surround human behavior and organizations that were taught in the class. It was great.

Intro to Marketing Management: One of my tougher classes of the semester (also one of my only classes where I got a solid A this semester [I got mostly A-s]). This class was a rude awakening to what my marketing emphasis would be like. It gave a great overview of what marketing really is (changed my entire perception of marketing) and taught me some basic principles that prepared me for my last semester in the Business school (Winter 2010). The professor (Steven Huff) is a genius. Completely recommendable.

Business Ethics: Marriott School students are known for their high ethical standards and behavior. This is great. But this ethics class wasn't. It was redundant (I felt like the same principle was taught over and over) and the professor was ridiculous (don't take it from Mark Bigelow. Actually, if you're taking it in the fall, take it from Liz Dixon, who is amazing). I'm disappointed that a class that is supposed to be one of the main tenet of a Marriott School education was a let down.

Intro to Finance: A breeze. It felt like a review of Accounting 210. Taught by the former dean of the Marriott School. The lectures were unnecessary, since I could just download his slides and learn all of the information from them. I was fine with that, since I got a nice break in my day by skipping. A.

Mentoring/Career Planning: I'm quite the peculiar Marriott School student. I don't really plan on entering the corporate world post-graduation (which is what the school pretty much pushes us for), so when I was forced to make a career plan and find a mentor for the semester I ran into a road block. There aren't very many theater managers and producers that have graduated from BYU. Because of this I had to conform to the resources available to me and I ended up having a mentor from Sony, who works as a business analyst. It was still interesting to talk to her and gain some insight into the entertainment industry, but it still wasn't what I wanted to do.

Doctrine and Covenants, Part 1- Best. Religion. Class. Ever. Take it from Patricia Rushton. She gets what a religion class is supposed to be like.

internship at Hale Center Theater Orem

Partially due to my involvement with the theater during "Singin' in the Rain", and partially due to my friendship with Sean Murphy, I was able to begin an internship in the Marketing department of the Hale Center Theater Orem. At the beginning, my responsibilities were fairly vague, but after about a month the internship began to shape and allow me to use a lot of the skills I was learning in the Marriott School. I'll make a post later where I talk about what I learned and did as an intern at HCTO.