My name is Crystal Wilson. I’m from Concord, North Carolina, and I’m graduating with an MBA today. I’m a single mom; I have three children; I work full time. I have a really demanding job, and right now I work at Flextronics as a supply chain manager and I just want to venture out into managing people more and doing more work globally. And I felt like an MBA would make me more competitive to be able to achieve those goals.
Even at the time of my undergraduate degree, I had two children and the same job, and I just needed something that I could work around the schedule. It’s really been perfect because the way Florida Tech has designed the degree program is really true to life. I have a position where I work with people all over the world, and at Florida Tech … your professor could be on another continent from you. Your fellow students are somewhere else – you have the same challenges. So, I really appreciated that aspect of it because I could really apply it to my personal and professional life.
I did not take any breaks. I rode it out all the way. A lot of hard work but I was extremely motivated. I have three kids. They were my motivation; I do it all for them. I would encourage anyone who thinks that they don’t have the time, or that they just can’t do it, to take it one day at a time and to go for it. You know, don’t think about it, just do it. Being here graduating today is just really surreal right now.
Read Crystal Wilson's Student Spotlight interview here.
