CHICAGO!

Hello All!

I am back from Chicago and have officially decided Chicago is my favorite city! I can't even list all of the things I love about that city!

BUT the point wasn't just to go to Chicago..the point was to go to the Collegiate Entrepreneurship Organization's national conference...

We all really enjoyed our the conference and felt we took a lot away from us. Our group was a really diverse one in many ways...culturally diverse and diverse in entrepreneurial ideas...it was truly an experience I know we all will never forget! 

I was lucky enough to listen to sessions on the following topics:

Business Plan Technique

Staying Motivated While Owning Your Own Business

Being a Young Entrepreneur

Online Marketing 

Being a collegiate entrepreneur is a stressful and nerve wrecking thing...but going to a conference with 1,600 other collegiate entrepreneurs is empowering and motivating. I left the conference thinking ..."I can do this"... I've always known I could do it, but seeing hundreds of other college students accomplishing their dreams is a whole different type of empowerment. 

On top of being able to bond with 5 other UT students we were able to bond with our advisor whom is also one of my professors. It was amazing learning about the businesses he owns, his goals and ways of doing business. He actually graduated from UT and we found out that he was a Sophomore at UT the year I was born...haha! I then found out that my economics professor was HIS professor when he was here...

So if you can picture this:

Professor Koutroumanis was a UT sophomore in 1987 and Professor Hoke was Professor Koutroumanis's professor and is now my professor too...

that is confusing but really crazy if you figure it out!  I LOVE OUR SCHOOL! 

Anyway here area few pictures...I have more to post from me speaking at the conference and a few other things but I don't have them on my computer yet :-/

Sebastien and I taking pictures in the "bean"...one of the coolest things I've ever seen! If you don't know what it is...google it and then make sure you go see it one day!

3 out of our group of 6 walking and shopping in downtown

Beautiful trees and sky reflected in the "bean"... it was finally sunny on our last day! 

I couldn't get over how many flowers and trees were in downtown... so impressive and pretty! 

Hopefully I'll get a few more pictures of us actually at the conference :)

Once again I encourage all of you to consider joining the UT Entrepreneurs Club if you decide to attend UT! We encourage all majors to join!!

Have a great week!! 

Next week I'll try to post a few fun Halloween pictures!! Have a fun and safe one!!