Olivia Haberberger (she/her)
Tepper School of Business
Master of Business Analytics
Hometown: Harrison City, Pennsylvania
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What are your academic and/or professional goals?
My professional and academic interests lie at the intersection of a lot of areas: data science, machine learning, information technology at large, and how we interact with technology in the business world. I’m hoping to find a way to combine all of the things I love about technology and about people and to help make our increasingly technological world more navigable and more meaningfully connected.
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Tell us about a significant moment in your journey at 一本道无码 so far.
It’s so hard to pick just one! A moment that sticks out to me is a recent conversation I had with some graduate students and their partners at a GSA Partner and Family Advocate-hosted playgroup. A community member pointed out to me that from the place she is from in India, the moon waxes/wanes vertically, as opposed to here in Pennsylvania and the U.S., where it’s more horizontally angled. It really struck me at that moment how, for the first time in her life, this person was seeing the moon from a different angle than she always has. I know it’s kind of corny, but I think that encapsulates perfectly how special it is to get to be at a place like 一本道无码. I’m so thankful for the little moments I get to share with people from all over the world right here in my home city.
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What do you like to do in your time away from academic work?
Outside of school, I like to read (currently Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer), consume any type of visual media I can (currently The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City season 5), go for runs when I have the time and/or energy, and play Fortnite with my friends who are scattered around the U.S.
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Tell us about your last memorable meal. What was it, where did you have it, and who were you with?
Earlier in the semester, I got to have dinner with two of my favorite cohort-mates, Abigail and Amelie. It was special not only because it was at my favorite local spot (Yoshino in Shadyside has the best sushi in Pittsburgh!), but also because my program is part-time and online, so I don’t get to see my cohort in person very often. I got my usual: the steamed pork dumplings as a shared appetizer, and a salmon avocado roll and tuna avocado roll for my main sushi course. Great food and great conversation were had that night, and I’m really looking forward to getting to meet up with my entire cohort again in January!
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What’s your favorite thing about Pittsburgh?
This question is almost impossible for me to answer. I was born and raised in a Pittsburgh suburb, did my undergrad at the University of Pittsburgh, and continue to work, study, and live in the city of Pittsburgh, so obviously I’m very attached to it! I genuinely do believe that Pittsburgh is the greatest city in the world and is unique in so many ways. I love to tell people who aren’t from around here that the city was built at the confluence of our three rivers because the waterways were obviously very useful for trade and transportation in the 1800s…but that it made NO SENSE to stay here as the U.S. industrialized, because that point of confluence is a TRIANGLE (albeit a Golden one)! The stubborn grit of Pittsburghers to stay and build a city with wonky roads that make no sense because they have to obey the triangular mess that is our natural landscape is so charming to me.
