Life at a Tortoise Pace

Things have kind of slowed down for me. The rush is no more there - I have plenty of time to work on the other 4 applications. I have decided that I would walk through the entire application for all the 4 schools and make sure that I have everything in place so that in the last moment I don't have to panic. [Lesson learnt from the Berkeley experience.] So the next 4 days I am going to do so - I kind of finished doing that for Berkeley today. I am planning to finish my Berkeley drafts this weekend and take the TOEFL next week. If I can submit the Berkeley apps then I can work peacefully on the other applications - Wharton,Kellogg and Harvard.

Now, it's a long wait before I can hear from MIT or Michigan. I am kind of hoping that the MIT interview invites would go out by the end of this month - so I can go for my vacation peacefully whether I receive it or not. Michigan - nothing needs to be done but a long wait till the start of next year. Next year would be a happening period for both me and my fiance. Atlast we can close this chapter of our life and move on.

I am visiting Kellogg in December and have already scheduled my interview - that would be another experience for me. Can't wait to visit the school - I am all enthusiastic to feel the "teamwork" phenomenon with all my senses. I don't know whether it is kind of negative or not - but I would give the interview before I meet the students. Maybe I should try to bump into some Kellogg grads the day before and get some pointers before the interview. I am very disappointed that I will be unable to visit Wharton because I wanted to visit the school badly - unfortunately I have run out of vacation and I can hardly find any day to sneak out. [ I already had to make up so many stories everytime I leave office early for the info sessions or the school visit or the interviews.] HBS - I don't think I need to visit the school because I already felt the culture in the info session - it's a mix of sharky and humble crowd - but I got the feeling that competition is enormous in that school.

MIT gave me a scare few days back when they sent the "you are invited" email to all the applicants in the bay area - lot of us were initially elated and then disappointed - it was foolish of us to expect an interview invite so close to the application deadline - Mr. Garcia needs some time to do an appropriate post-mortem of our applications - Isn't it?

I would wait for that Michigan phone call and would be fairly disappointed if I don't
get it :(

The wait has only started. Let's keep our fingers crossed...