Grad School

  On May 9th I was accepted to Thunderbird School of Global Management!  It was pretty exciting!  I was on my way to Red Robin with my mom and Ty Nelson and I received an email from Thunderbird saying that I qualified for a scholarship.  I was way excited, but a little confused because I hadn't been accepted to the school yet.  Then about 30 minutes later I received an email saying I was officially accepted to the school!  That is the school that Caitlin and I really wanted, so starting this Fall I will be going to Thunderbird to receive a MS in Global Management, then I can do an accelerated International MBA program after that.

I'm going to add my reaction to this news too just so it can be documented (this is Caitlin, btw).  Billy forwarded me the emails that he got a scholarship and got accepted to Thunderbird to my work email.  I sat down at my desk at the end of the school day, which was actually the last day of real class with my students because after that they had testing/projects/etc.  So I had students surrounding my desk all asking what their grades were and saying bye to me and stuff and then I saw the emails and I was like AHH MR.BARNES GOT INTO GRADUATE SCHOOL!!  The kids were kind of confused that I actually had a life outside of school, as they always are when I mention anything about myself, but they were excited and then left.  I called Billy to congratulate him and then got out of school as fast as I could so we could go celebrate!  We went to Yao's that night for dinner with Bruce and Karen, which is always a good time!  I am very excited and super proud of Billy that he got accepted!  (Except just between you and me, I think I deserve some credit too, so congrats to myself for pushing Billy so hard and nagging the heck out of him to get everything turned in and done ;) )