The International Business orientation ran smoother on day two.
Noel stood at the front of the conference room with three other seniors from his program—Sarah, who'd been his partner on multiple projects, James, who actually enjoyed public speaking, and Kenji, who'd transferred from Japan sophomore year and had perspective most of them lacked.
Twenty-five freshmen sat in neat rows, notebooks open, some recording on their phones.
"International Business is different from general Business Studies," Sarah was explaining. "You'll take some of the same core classes, but your focus is global markets, cross-cultural management, trade policy. It's more specialized."
A freshman raised his hand. "Is it harder?"
"Different hard," Noel said. "More research-intensive. You'll write a lot of policy analyses, case studies on multinational corporations. If you like digging into data and understanding how different countries' economies interact, you'll enjoy it."
