My "Post-It " for today

Before I finally call it a day i'd like to list down the schools I am looking at and make it to their events at my part of the globe.

• Ross
• Tuck
• Haas
• Yale
• Stern

I am looking at a program that is a good mix of non profit/social entrepreneurship and strategy with a greater emphasis on practical learning vis a vis class room teaching and a good number of international admits.

The last time I checked, UCLA looked interesting too. Am I missing any school so far???????

Another non linear curvy day

should i wait another yr ...should i just settle for something less... ohh yeah when did u start seeing the glass as half empty....u are so convinced about getting the degree and enhancing your career and life......is this the school i'd love to be associated with.... haven't you always loooooooooooveeddddd this school.....but all website and blogs and forums praise their school and think its the best B school on planet Earth...so dig out more on it, talk to people, pester frens n family and frens frens n family frens for inputs and contacts and then decide for urself....ya but still u know but then.....ohh shut up and stop worrying so much unnecessarily.....u have it in you , just don let the steam run out...........(and its tomorrow already!!! --yeah nearly 3 am and ticking!!!)

I Need Answers ... and I Need them NOW

I'm back after a loooonngg hiatus still clueless...still tossing and turning....still apprehensive....still excited.....still confident...still wavering....stillllllllllllllll



Ok enough of my crap..i need answers to questions that have been gnawing at me for a long long time...

• Do Tom Dick Harry exist in the good business programs or are all admits extraordinary - exemplified like The Class of 2009, for example, includes a Scrabble master, a Purple Heart recipient, a fixed-wing glider pilot, a lobster-eating champion, a policy advisor in the Bush White House, an inventor with a patent for the "Compact Dual Cyclone Combustor," a former university mascot, and a novelist---@ Yale SOM


• How do you bridge the gap between "Is school XYZ the best fit for me as the person I am, for my personal growth, for my career goals and aspirations" and "Am I the kind of candidate school XYZ is looking out for ".....


• Visiting the school, talking to the current students, soaking in the atmosphere and "a day@school" would partly answer my prev question I guess , but wht if one does not have the chance to do so? what's the next best thing???

Been there Done that

I took up the GMAT on 16th March, 2007 and I live to tell the sorry tale........
I wont say I screwed it up completely but yes I'm definately not in the driver's seat as far as my score is concerned.
I scored a 690. 38 in verbal and 47 in quant.

Where I went wrong:

• I did not take OG too seriously.I did not manage to complete the entire OG 10 ( OG 11 is good enough ) and I was not sincere in the rerun.
• Although quant is simple I should have looked up formulas and sums elsewhere. Kaplan is lacking in this regard.
• My downfall was the 2nd question in quant. It was on statistics...i spent way too much time on it... got it wrong and lost out on time on the other ques.
• I messed up the break timings between quant and verbal. I lost out on a good 3 minutes in verbal. silly silly mistake.
• I did not practice on the AWA front. I picked up Arco's GMAT essays , the day before my test and just skimmed through a couple of essays. Its an absolute MUST to write a couple of essays before D day.
• I did not take up a complete practice test before D day . It was always only quant and verbal and thus D day was a bit too taxing on me.

Although most of it sounds silly and elementry , i'm sure quite a few of us out there do end up making these mistakes and then end up paying a heavy price.......

i'm definately going to learn from my mistakes the next time round.......

Some of the must have's before I start off on appying for fall '09

• Must have taken up the GMAT by April
• Must have finalised my list of colleges by Mid March ( well this shld not be too tough coz i already am sure of 3 of them)
• Must have penned down my list of activities, achievements, failures right frm school till date by mid May(this is sure going to be one monumental task)
• Must have the first draft of the basic essays like why mba, career goals, leadership example, weakness jotted down by last week of June. (i think this would definately help in getting into the groove of essay writing and clear some cobwebs and hiccups we come across if we start appying a tad bit too late)

Quite a few Must Have's i say!!! Fingers crossed...lets see how many i can strike off the list in time!!!!

The beginning towards the end.........

I've been part of the blogging as well as the mba aspirants fraternity for quite some time now but have never really penned down my thoughts, progress as far as mba is concerned....
i've read so many mba blogs by now and i realise its a great way not just to help out others and prevent them from making the same stupid mistake but also helps you keep track of ur progress, ur shortcomings and yes blow ur trumpet at the end of the day!!!!!!!!!!

so here goes........................................