I left a fairly high-paying job at the age of 29 to pursue an MBA at UT-Austin. This meant forgoing hundreds of thousands of dollars in salary and taking out loans to pay for this program. My first year was hybrid errr virtual mostly, which in theory devalued a big proposition of an MBA program -- the network. I had long been awaiting a Leadership class I signed up for that culminated with a 10-day camping trek in Chilean Patagonia as a way to really connect with some of my classmates and hav...