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"I think business classes are a great realistically and outside the box.
way to get experience for a college busi - "We did a lot of scenario projects

ness class. They're real life experiences, where we had to make up a sales pitch
and we 're getting to know what it will be for a certain item. It was good practice to
like in a real business," senior Keaton prepare for pursuing it later," Thomson
Moss said. said .

Well armed with extensive and im- Other students were able to gain
portant business classes, MN prepared actual experience in the business field by
students for college, and helped some to working in the Mustang Mart.
even discover their passions. "I got to work in the store a couple

"I enjoyed everything about my Fash- days a week, and sometimes on days
ion Marketing class; it's the subject I want when there were basketball games. I
to major in for college . I really liked learn - liked getting to see how things were

ing about how marketing affects things, run , how everything was organized, and
the psychology behind selling things like getting to work with sales. Working with
that. It's really interesting to me ," junior customers was fun and helped me learn
Sarah Thomson said . how to communicate, which is really
These courses included hands on important in the business world," junior

projects that required students to think Brandi Hournbuckle said .

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