I’m growing up. And that’s scary.
I went to an informational tonight for the Professional Program for Accounting (PPA) here at Mays Business School. The PPA program is a 5-year program where I will get my BBA in Accounting and an MS in some other business degree at the end of my 5th year. Assuming I get into the program I’ll start being recruited for internships this spring. It’s a pretty cool deal. The program has developed a little bit of a prestigious reputation among accounting firms so the “big 4” accounting firms as well as some middle market and industry firms come in and basically pamper you and try to get you to come do an internship at their firm.
I found out a couple things tonight that I didn’t know (or had heard but didn’t know for sure). For one, if I do the track of PPA that I’m currently most interested in (Management Information Systems) I’ll be doing my internship next fall. Yeah, that’s right. Less than a year from now I’ll be employed. At a real job. With real accountants. Doing real accounting stuff. That blows my mind. I feel like I just started college. I’m still a kid. I can’t have a real job yet. Crazy. Also, if I don’t do that track, I’ll be starting graduate classes next fall. If I really want to, I could possibly start them next semester or this summer if I end up taking summer school. What? I shouldn’t even be close to taking grad classes yet! I just started college remember? Dang, I’m old. How did that happen?
As of now my first choice will be to do an internship in Dallas either next fall or next spring (depending on which program track I end up choosing.) Even though it totally blows my mind that I’m even having to think seriously about this right now, I’m really excited about this program and everything that I’ll be doing for the next 2 and a half years. It’s a really cool opportunity and I’m really glad that A&M offers it. But now I’m off to write my resume. Because I hear those are important.
