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Whenever she courses down a turbulent river filled with rapids and obstacles, BYU Marriott information systems student Bonnie McDougal embraces the overwhelming rush of adrenaline.
Logan Sackley has always loved connecting with others. He looks forward to creating new connections in the upcoming fall semester as he begins the MISM program at BYU Marriott.
Imagine hacking into a Furby, picking a lockbox, shooting targets with Nerf guns, diving into piles of (clean) trash, and sliding under string “laser beams,” all with the end goal of identifying—and then fixing—vulnerabilities in a wireless computer security system.
Changing newborn diapers while completing the master of information systems program is not easy for Tomiris Mollinet, but she is taking these challenges in stride.
The need for STEM professionals is on the rise, and women are happily stepping up to help meet the exploding demand. According to Forbes, eleven of the top twenty highest-paying jobs for women in 2015 are in STEM fields—among those, information systems managers were ranked eighteenth. And at BYU, more female students are discovering the lure of careers in the field.
When Maria Yacaman came to BYU to play golf, she intended to major in finance, but a required information systems course changed everything.
Sickness, car wrecks, and births—INTEX, the weeklong rite of passage for information systems students, stops for nothing.