Off-cycle internship results-Nike!

Hey all,
We recently found out that 13 of us have been matched to off-cycle internships! I'll be heading to Nike with two other LGOs in February. Woo hoo! The family is excited for the move. My parents are excited to have the grand-kids nearby as well.

Leaving after only two semesters at MIT is fast, but it is nice to have a whole year back at MIT after the internship. It is difficult to leave my friends in my cohort (go Indians!), core team, and LGO cohort, but that is balanced out by getting matched to the company/project of my choice. I'm very grateful to be given this opportunity by LGO and Nike, and I hope I do well!
John

Off-Cycle internship recruiting!

Hey all,
We just finished up our off-cycle internship recruiting (http://lgo.mit.edu/manufacturing-operations-mba-internships/) last week. This means that the group of us who recruited for off-cycle internships will start our internships in February of 2014 (ending in August). People have various reasons for choosing to interview for off-cycle internships:

• Location: Some of us are trying to go (or stay in Boston) to specific places for our internship. For instance, a lot of those with significant others (SO) that work in Boston would like to stay in Boston for their internship because moving for six months would be disruptive for their SO. 
• Company: A few of us are targeting certain companies for internships because they would like to work their post-MBA (or at least would like to try it out). 
• Timing: Some of my classmates have specific timing concerns because of classes or conferences. For instance, a few of my classmates opted out of recruiting for off-cycle internships because they want to take part in some conferences this February (I think the tech conference and sports analytics conference are both in February). 
• Internship content: I think a few of us were motivated by the specific problem statement in the various internships. 

The internship recruiting cycle was supposed to be from the 21st of October to the 1st of November, but some of the interviews have spilled over into this week (due to some company scheduling issues). LGO only allows up to 15 (at least this year) of us to go on off-cycle internships, so a few of us will be disappointed by the matching of internships to students. If you all do not know, internships are matched to students similarly to the Medical Student residency match. Students rank the preference of their internships and companies do as well. The internships are then matched to optimize happiness of the student and company. 

We should know whether or not we are matched at the end of this week. The match for off-cycle internships is faster than for on-cycle because a smaller number of us apply to off-cycle, and students are a lot more exclusive about which internships they apply to (so the match is less complex). The reason we are more exclusive is because if we do not match this cycle, we always have the on-cycle internship to try again. 

This year we had a great selection of internships from our partner companies (http://lgo.mit.edu/partner-companies/partners/). Amazon, Amgen, Beth Israel (Boston area hospital), Boeing, Mass. General Hospital, Nike, Pfizer, Sanofi, UTC-Sikorsky, and Verizon all offered internships for off-cycle internships. I am in the Engineering Systems Division (ESD), so most of the internships worked for me (a few of the biotech companies strongly prefer Chemical Engineers). Depending on the engineering department, students had a smaller list of companies they could recruit for because the internship forms the basis of our thesis. This thesis is a requirement for graduation so our engineering department must approve the internship to ensure it has enough appropriate engineering content for an engineering professor in that department to sign off on. It seems like the most lenient engineering department in terms of engineering content is ESD because it is, arguably, the most inter-disciplinary engineering department that LGO partners with. 

If I match I'll be pretty excited about the internship, but a bit sad at leaving Boston. Also, the thought of moving so soon is daunting. If I don't match, my wife and I will be happy to have some more time in Boston before possibly moving in June. I'll keep you all posted on the results!

MIT LGO Ambassador Day November 4th!

Hey prospective LGOs!
Ambassador Day is coming up November 4th and we would like to see you there! I went last year and that trip was instrumental in my selecting LGO over other MBA programs that I was considering. I had a chance to meet a handful of my current classmates and a few of the LGO '14s as well. See the link below to watch a video that a few of my classmates put together to advertise the event.

http://lgo.mit.edu/news/articles/ambassador_day_2013/ambassador_day_2013.html

Schedule of the day is below:

Ambassador Day Schedule (November 4, 2013)
10 a.m.—5:30 p.m.

By sitting in on a class, having lunch with current LGO students and admissions staff, or participating in a student-run panel discussion, you'll have an LGO experience that's both informative and interactive.

9:30–10:30 a.m.		Check in and mingle in the Sloan building (Room E62-233)
10:30 a.m.–noon		Tour the MIT campus with current LGO students
Noon–1 p.m.		Engage in an LGO student panel discussion
1–2:15 p.m.		Enjoy lunch and mingling with LGO students and staff members
2:30–4 p.m.		Attend a class (engineering or business)
4–5:30 p.m.		Attend a partner company proseminar

Life as an MBA student

Hey all,
Whew, it has been a while since I have updated the blog! Things have gotten a bit busy with the start of the fall semester and I let this slip! I am actually forced to write a blog-post for my communications class (15.280), but that is besides the point.
I have ten minutes to write this blog, so I'll keep it short. I think if I had to use one word to define the MBA experience I would use the word 'buffet.' I've used this term many times with myself and classmates as we learn to successfully (or unsuccessfully) balance juggling all of the demands we have on our time as MBA students. For instance, this past semester I have had to balance a few competing demands:

• 4 MBA core courses: Econ, Accounting, Organizational Processes, and Communication.
• 2 to 1 MBA electives: I was signed up for finance, added marketing, and then later dropped marketing as I determined that my class load was too high.
• 1 engineering elective: ESD.260 which is Logistics Systems. This is a great class for LGOs as we enter companies as operations/supply chain professionals. Right now we are learning about forecasting demand which is super important for most companies that manufacture products.
• 1 significant club activity: I applied for and was accepted to the DesignWorks seminar hosted by the MIT Sloan Design Club and Continuum Consulting. 12 of us from MIT Sloan have been selected to work on design projected in Cambridge with a local company! Sweet! 
• 3 other clubs I am involved in: Korea Club, Technology Club, and the Design Club. 

Classes have been very interesting and relevant to the business world. Andrew Lo is my finance Professor and I feel like I leave his class appreciating the world of finance more and more. Right now we are learning about fixed income securities and I talk to my LGO classmates about how the math is not difficult, but we feel like we are learning a new language every time we sit in his class. Chris Caplice is the primary instructor for Logistics Systems and he uses a very innovative style of lecturing wherein he has all 85 students in his class vote on different questions during class. For instance he offered up the introduction of the Ipod in 2001 and asked us what type of new product introduction it was. Most of us selected either a new to the world or another type. It is a form of quick crowd-sourcing of information and gauging the general knowledge level of the class. 

Business school intensity has really ramped up this semester compared to the summer semester. Even the other LGOs are fairly busy with classes at very different times and locations. I am trying to manage the buffet well so that I eat enough to learn all that I can, but not so much that I get sick! Last week was fairly intensive because the LGO '14s were all back in town for knowledge review. Most of them (about 30 or so of them out of a class of about 48) are on their internships and they came back in town to update the LGO staff and partner companies on the status of their internships. Interspersed were sessions with companies (networking) and other LGOs. All in all the buffet will not slow down for the foreseeable future! 

Please let me know if you have any topics you would like me to cover in future blog posts.

Trip to Digital Lumens

During the summer we (meaning LGOs) have made a few trips to local companies in the area. One of the companies that we visited was ENERNOC (see my classmate Maxine's post on the trip http://yangtothemax.blogspot.com/2013/08/enernoc-plant-tour.html).

We also went on a trip to visit Digital Lumens (DL) before the end of the summer semester (see http://www.digitallumens.com/). Joe (a former MIT Sloan MBA and the product manager at Digital Lumens) hosted us for our trip to DL. We learned about the founding of the company from one of the founders of DL. The founders came from Color Kinetics after the company was acquired by Philips. The first niche that the company found itself serving was in cold storage. DL's main product is a system of LEDs that are smartly controlled for industrial applications. In cold storage the lower heat out-put of the lights plus the smarter control of the lights led to a double savings for these customers.

In addition to a presentation by one of the founders, we had the opportunity to speak with their VP of sales and marketing. He told us that one of his biggest challenges was in defining his target customers. The titles of their customers ranged greatly from representatives, distributors, architects, facilities directors, etc... This is an interesting marketing and sales problem because DL really needs to reach customers that have budgetary authority in their companies. Often-times lighting and electricity use is not something that companies think through, so DL not only has to educate them about their products but also why these products would work for their particular use.

Lastly, we had a final session with Joe and a colleague of his that graduated from Cornell's MBA program. We had a chance to talk about careers in cleantech and startups. Working for a startup seems very worthwhile but it can be risky because jobs are not secure until right before graduation (at least for MBAs). They also gave us advice to network continually because we never knew where our next job would come from. As MBAs at Sloan we were humbled by the amount of time and attention the senior employees at DL provided for us. Thanks again DL!

Picture of Joe showing us one of DL's products. 

Another picture of Joe (Thanks Albert for taking the pictures!)

Overview of summer classes

This blog post is about the various mandatory classes that LGOs take during the summer. To preface my blog post I want to let you know that MIT students like to refer to courses by their number and not by  their title (maybe it is more efficient?). I'll refer to both the number and course title for each of the courses I write about below.

15.761 Operations Management: As LGOs this course is mandatory (I guess that should be obvious because of the O in LGO) and necessary for most of the other courses most of the LGOs are going to take in subsequent semesters. We're learning about very interesting subjects like capacity, inventory, queuing theory, and others. We have a very engaging Professor (http://web.mit.edu/~zlisto/www/) who is actually about the same age as Susan and I! We recently had a class on risk management and as a case study we read and discussed the positive impact Wal-Mart had on New Orleans post-Katrina. 

15.064 Probability and Statistics: This is a unique class that all LGOs take. What makes it unique is that we learn from one Professor (Arnie Barnett) for the first half (Probability) and from another Professor (Roy Welsch) for the second half (Statistics). We all survived (I hope!) probability and are now learning Statistics. Statistics is very interesting and very applicable in this day and age of big data. I've used Minitab a bit in my previous job (at GE), but here at MIT we use JMP (another statistical analysis software package). As a six sigma black belt I learned statistical tools as part of my job, but his course has really helped me learn the theory behind the practice. I now understand (dimly but better than before) why I used to run F-tests, T-tests, and other analysis in Minitab! 

15.317 Leadership: Similar to Operations Management this is a mandatory class because of one of the letters in LGO (L). Leigh Haffrey facilitates this course and helps us think deep about leadership and ethics. We recently had a very enlightening discussion about the use of fear in the work-place (think Niccolo Machiavelli). Our class was split on the use of fear in the work-place as some of us thought there were appropriate reasons to do so while others disagreed and thought fear should never be used in the work-place. 

15.066 Systems Optimization: This is the most engineering of our courses (at least I think so). Professor Itai Ashlagi teaches us and he teaches us very well. We're learning about linear programming, non-linear programming, and other things as well. This is a highly applicable course for us LGOs for our internships and future jobs. It is cool to be able to use Excel Solver and @Risk to analyze business problems. 

ESD.60 High Velocity Systems: I read The High Velocity Edge (when it was called Chasing the Rabbit) http://www.amazon.com/The-High-Velocity-Edge-Operational-Competition/dp/0071741410 a year ago while working at GE (someone recommended it to me). The concepts in the book really resonated with me because he wrote about how Toyota and other high velocity companies LEARNED faster than other companies. Lo and behold at LGO I get to take the course about this system with the author of the book! WOO HOO. This course helps us really learn the material from the book via cases and discussions with the Professor and other classmates. I think this course motivates me to learn more about operations and other high velocity corporations (besides Toyota).

Overall I am very happy about the choice of summer courses that we LGOs are taking. Even though I have not been in school since 2006 all of us (LGOs) help each other out to learn subjects we are unfamiliar with. Five courses in one abbreviated semester seems like a lot for me (at Stanford I only took 3-4 courses at a time) and it is a bit, but the  highly technical courses (like Statistics and Systems Optimization) are well balanced with case heavy courses (Operations Management and Leadership). 

Why MBA and why now for Veterans

A few people have asked me why an MBA and why now. I'll try to write this from the perspective of a veteran with some civilian experience.

As I was leaving the military I had a difficult time choosing between going to an MBA program versus going straight into industry. At the time I had a great offer from GE in my hand (November) and had yet to hear back from the MBA programs I had applied to. My wife and I discussed our situation and decided that going to work was the best course of action for us because I was pretty sure I wanted to work in energy and rotate among different business functions (pretty much what GE was offering me). I thought that if I went straight to GE I could either skip studying for an MBA or do an MBA on the side.

I left the military to pursue a career in business because I thought that I could make a bigger impact in business rather than the military. At GE I was working in the quality function as a six sigma guy and learning a lot about operations. The more I learned the more I wanted to study operations formally. GE had a certain way of improving operations, but this did not correspond with what I was learning about how Toyota operated (the model operations company).

Ultimately, I left GE to learn more about operations and investigate opportunities at other companies and industries. In the military I was taught to be happy with the positions and units I was given by my branch manager, but while at GE I learned that I could be most productive and happy by pursuing positions and companies that I fit in best. I knew this theoretically, but making the decision to leave GE for business school was a difficult one.

Leaving a stable job in a booming city (Houston is doing very well right now due to all of the oil and gas companies in the area) was very difficult and scary. I think it would have been less scary if I did not have a wife and two young children that I was responsible for. I went from receiving a pay check to receiving tuition bills. So far one month into business school I have not regretted my decision at all, but I do consider myself blessed. Not everyone has the opportunity to leave work for graduate school. 

Why leaving GE was difficult

Related to my post about why MIT LGO and why now is this post about why I decided to leave GE and pursue a full time MBA. This post is about why it was so difficult for me to leave GE and come to MIT.

1. Unique rotational program for junior military officers.
At GE I was hired on under the Junior Officer Leadership Program (JOLP). What that really meant was that I was working as a Lean Six Sigma Black belt and rotating amongst different functions in GE Power and Water (the Aeroderivatives business which has now been subsumed into the Distributed Power business). Not many other companies of GE's caliber offered up true rotational programs for junior military officers. I did receive an offer from Siemens for the Sales and Marketing Development Program but the salary and rotations were really geared towards those straight out of college and not the military.

If you want to know more about the program you can see the link below:
http://www.ge.com/careers/culture/us-veterans/junior-officer-leadership-program

2. Opportunity to work in a great industry.
The energy industry is one that I have a great deal of respect for and interest in because it underlies most of what allows modern society to operate. I had a taste of working in that industry at GE and I would not mind working in it post-LGO.

3. Adding up a few more moves for the family.
Moving with a family is difficult and thinking about the added stress of a move to business school, a move for an internship, a move back to school, and then a further move to a permanent job was a bit daunting. After a year in Houston we were just making friends. 

Moving- Part 3: Preparing our toddler

Isn't it amazing how much children know? Many times surpassing our expectations of them. Our toddler continues to surprise me with how sensitive and aware he is about what is going on around him and how much he picks up from me and John.
The last time we moved, Isaac was too young to understand (or maybe he would have but I didn't try! gulp!), but now that he is 2.5 we put more effort into preparing him for the transition.

We showed him the pictures of our new house.

We counted down the days until the movers would come to take away all our things and then the days until we would actually get on the airplane to go to Boston.

We also borrowed books about moving.
Check out: Moving to a New House by Nicola Barber which Isaac really liked and related to right away with the pictures of people packing things in boxes.
Do not check out: Moving House by Mark Siegel which is actually about a house that moves.....great story...just doesn't fit the occasion.. (yeah...definitely one of those times i wish i scanned before reading to him....)

Since packing our own boxes was a long process, I think that gave him more time to get used to the idea. We involved him as much as possible in the packing process, such as letting him write on the boxes, and put things in boxes.

Finally, we took lots of pictures of our favorite places in Houston and said good-byes to our friends.

I also told Jonah (our 7 month old), but he just cried...

Interesting Operations Question: Should homes be designed to be modified

Below is a very interesting post about the Netherlands where architects and the government are collaborating to create affordable homes for first time home buyers. The interesting thing about these homes is that the interiors are designed to be easily modified according to what the user requires (I think... The article digresses into a history lesson on the 'Grow Home' in Montreal which I think is similar). So if a new home buyer's family includes only himself and a significant other, then the second floor of the home may include one large bedroom. When (and if) the family expands then you can add modular walls to create more bedrooms, thus re-configuring the home as needed.

I think that the ability to reconfigure your home is a very interesting feature that may be important for mainstream home building.

Article from treehugger:
http://www.treehugger.com/green-architecture/grow-home-back-these-flatpack-houses-dutch-first-time-homebuyers.html?utm_source=feedly&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+treehuggersite+(Treehugger)

Article about the 'Grow Home' from the Atlantic:
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1991/02/living-smaller/306205/?single_page=true

Moving-Part 2: Let's pack our own boxes!

Guest post by Susan (John's wife)

Our goal for moving progressed from, "Let's save money as much as we can!" to "Let's save our sanity as much as we can!"  

And here's how it went down:

First, we thought about loading up a truck and taking a road trip to see all our dear friends and family on the way to Boston. It would be a big trip! So memorable! With stops at Fort Leonard Wood, MO, St. Louis, MO, Evanston, IL, Cleveland, OH, Northampton, MA to Cambridge, MA (quick shout out to all our friends and family in those cities!). 

This thought was quickly revised when our littlest Kang (oh, how I love him!) cried in the backseat on a 30 minute road trip to H-E-B during Houston rush hour traffic.... No good.

So maybe not big road trip. But maybe John can drive the truck by himself. That means Susan will have to take one (wonderful) nursing baby, one (wonderful) toddler all by herself through airport security, ride in a 3+ hour flight, push the double stroller to baggage claim, pick up the pack and play and the suitcases, and somehow push the stroller and the bags to get outside the airport to meet a taxi, and.... No good.

So maybe John doesn't drive the truck. But maybe we can save on miles and get these tickets that have one stop. Our trip would start out leaving Houston around 1pm. After an hour and a half layover, we'll arrive in Boston at 8:44pm. Probably get to the new house around 9:30pm with one (so sweet) nursing baby and one (so sweet) toddler who have not slept well all day and will be up way past their bed time.... No good. 

Wait, we already got the tickets.... No good.

So maybe we don't save on miles and spend more money and change the flight to a non-stop flight that arrives at 3pm. Good! So good!

Oh, and what about our things? Well, maybe we can save money by packing our own boxes. Boxes? Yes, that we can do. Let's pack our own boxes! 

Where did we get the boxes?

John found them on usedcardboardboxes.com. 

It came with tape, markers, and packing paper. Really awesome.

As for other logistics:
We used moveline.com to find a moving company.
We used Plaza Auto Transport to move our car.

By the way, we decided Isaac's room is the best place to store all the boxes. So now our toddler's room looks like this:

Moving- Part 1: "Where going, Momma?"

Guest post by Susan (John's wife)

Well, there's a reason why John's the LGO fellow and not me... because I think moving to Cambridge is enough of an operations problem for me! Seriously. It really is.

So first, we had to decide on a destination. In the words of our toddler, "Where going, Momma?"
We went back and forth and back and forth (and back and forth) about trying to get on-campus housing or not. We were really torn because we liked the idea of being on-campus with other graduate students and their families and the activities and resources for kids (hello playground right outside my back door!). Not to mention the great cost-savings. But we also liked the idea of moving straight into an apartment and trying to get settled before school started. Finally, after countless hours on housing.mit.edu and more hours on padmapper.com (mostly John doing the hard work there!), we decided to try to minimize the number of moves and move straight into an apartment.

Home to MIT Sloan (only a 12 minute walk!)

This decision was also greatly helped by the fact that there was a list of apartments from LGO '14s and '13s who were leaving. John was able to visit several places during Open House for admits. We are really grateful for all the LGO's who were so helpful during this decision process in sharing their insights with us. John was really helped by an LGO '14 family (Mike and Jamie Chun) who generously hosted him when he visited MIT for Ambassador Day and Interview Fest. (Small world: John and Mike both went to West Point and Jamie and I were both psych majors at Smith College! Also, my maiden name is Chun! No relation though. If we were it would have been a really small world.) It turned out that the Chuns were going to leave for his internship so we'll be moving into their place, which is bittersweet for us because it would have been so much better if we could have been in Cambridge together!

We liked the location of Kendall Square because of the proximity to school. We really like to spend a lot of time together as a family and cutting down on John's commute time will help with that. Being close to campus will also be convenient for when we want to participate in any of the on-campus graduate family activities. We also hope to be able to use our home to welcome others (as the Chuns so generously did with us), so if in the future, you or someone you know is in need of staying somewhere, please think of our home! So we will be paying much higher rent, but we believe that for the reasons mentioned, it is worth it.

After we had an address, planning the operations problem of moving could begin. John is so future-oriented that planning comes so naturally for him. This is obviously a big blessing when it comes to things like planning our move and I am so glad that he is good at it. But sometimes I find myself saying things like, "can we plan what we're going to do next weekend instead of next year?"  

Why LGO? Why now?

Why LGO (http://lgo.mit.edu)?
I think this question can be divided into two questions: Why a full-time MBA and why MIT LGO?
Why a full-time MBA?

To provide a little background, last year (Fall 2011) while applying to GE I was also applying to full time MBA programs. I had gotten into Northwestern's MMM program (MBA/MS Engineering management) and was sorely tempted to take that offer rather than GE. What turned me aside was that I thought at the time that I wanted to dedicate my career to the energy industry. Moving to GE in Houston seemed like a no-brainer at the time rather than taking time off to go to school.

When I started at GE (April 2012) I thought that I wanted to work in Energy. Through the Junior Officer Leadership Program (JOLP) at GE I was planning on experiencing working in various business functions to gain a broad background in how a large industrial business operates. During my time at GE I realized that I had holes in my business know-how. Also, even though GE is not a top-MBA recruiter, many of the executives at GE had an MBA. After realizing that I did want to pursue an MBA, I had to decide between going full-time (and leaving GE) or going part-time while working.

I applied to and was accepted into UT Austin's part-time MBA program in Houston and was preparing to join the class of 2014. Before classes started, I realized that I wanted to pursue a full-time program rather than a part-time program. I ultimately decided that if I was going to get an MBA I should go full time and try to go to the best fit program I could. I did not want to ever regret my decisions, and I am sure I would have regretted not pursuing a full-time MBA later on in my career.

Two years during this stage of my career seems like a long time to take off, but I think in the big picture it is not that long. I have heard numerous people further on in their career tell me that they wish they would have taken time off to go to school (and a few who were glad they went part-time as well) and really immerse themselves in an MBA program. Having 100% post 9/11 GI Bill helps with the cost of school (I will only have to cover living expenses).

Why LGO over other MBA programs?
After I decided to pursue a full-time MBA I had to think about which schools to apply to. What helped me with this decision-making process was that at GE I had a chance to interact with colleagues in many different functions. While working as a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt I found that I enjoyed working on process improvement. This translates pretty well into MBA programs focused on Operations.

The main two programs that came to mind when I thought of Operations was Northwestern's MMM program and MIT's LGO program. I applied to both programs and was accepted by both. Deciding between the two programs was very difficult for me. At Northwestern I would have had more freedom to pursue different internships (MIT LGO internships are primarily with partner companies), in addition to living close to my wife's family. In the end I chose MIT LGO because of the strength of the overall program. The business programs are peer programs, but MIT's engineering school is arguably better than Northwestern's.

Also, another large draw towards picking MIT LGO was that the program was so closely tied in with industry partners (called 'partner companies' at MIT LGO). The list of partner companies included most of the companies I would like to work for post-MBA (http://lgo.mit.edu/partner-companies/partners/) so having a guaranteed internship with one of the partner companies and exclusive recruiting with them sounded like a great deal. Many of the partner companies exclusively recruit from MIT LGO for their post-MBA operations roles. Also, it did not hurt that I would not have to pay any tuition at MIT (LGO has a generous fellowship) compared to having to pay around $20k at Northwestern.

Who am I?

I'm John Kang and will be starting the Leaders for Global Operations (LGO) program this June as part of the class of 2015. Coming along with me is my beautiful wife Susan and our two sons (Isaac and Jonah). We will be moving from the Galleria area of Houston, TX and are excited to live on the east coast again (my wife and I both went to college nearby MIT).

Currently, I am wrapping up work with GE Power & Water as a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt (as a member of the Junior Officer Leadership Program). Before this I worked as an Engineer Officer for the US Army stationed primarily out of Fort Leonard Wood, MO. Before the Army I studied Mechanical Engineering for a BS (from the United States Military Academy) and MS (from Stanford University) with some course-work and research in energy and robotics.

I decided to start this blog for 3 reasons:
1. To archive my journey as a member of the LGO class of 2015.
2. Provide a service to those interested in the LGO program (LGO bloggers who have come before me have helped me understand the program much better than if I had to rely solely on the LGO website).
3. To keep my friends and family updated on my progress through this program.

Some of the future blog topics I will be covering are:

• The application process
• Visits to MIT LGO: Ambassador Day, Interviewfest, and Open House
• US Military Veteran perspectives at LGO (I am not the only US Military veteran in my class)
• The move process from Houston to Cambridge for a family of four
• Why LGO and why now?
• Why not stay at GE?
• Why did you pick Engineering Systems for your MS?

I have had some problems with blog.com so I am starting this blog anew. If you would like to read some of my old posts about leaving the Army and working for GE, see this link: http://johnkangw.blog.com/